Mike Vardy on Doing Less Productivity and Being More Productive
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2013
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker and podcaster on productivity. His main site is Productivityist.com. He’s given talks on productivity and technology, as well as several featured keynotes and workshops related to time, task, project, and goal management.
Covered in this episode:
- Productivityist = a person who wants to get more efficient and more effective with their work
- Working on ways to get better work done
- How do you determine the need for a new tool, how do you test a tool
- A More Meaningful To Do List – The Omnifocus Setup
- Projects first, tasks second
- Projects vs. tasks
- Jon Acuff – START
- Green Lantern – Willpower vs. Fear
- Chris Brogan You Are Your Own Superhero
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The Best Upgrade Is You by Patrick Rhone
- Low energy productivity
- The Front Nine
- Mike’s on Mic’s
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- The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
- Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
- The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
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- Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
- Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time looking |
| 0:15.6 | through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable candidates fast. |
| 0:22.5 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else because even those who |
| 0:28.3 | aren't actively searching for a new job might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.2 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.3 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.9 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:56.0 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
| 0:59.0 | They even just launched a feature that helps you write job descriptions, |
| 1:02.0 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.6 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | That's LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:09.6 | slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome to another episode of Beyond the To-Do List. I am your host |
| 1:37.1 | Eric Fisher. This is the show where we talk to the people behind the |
| 1:41.2 | productivity. In this case, we're talking with a productivityist. |
| 1:45.8 | What does that mean? Well, I'll let Mike Vardy tell you once we get into the interview. |
| 1:50.5 | But yes, this week I'm talking to Mike Vardardy of productivityist.com. We talk a bit about what is productivity. We talk about ways to stop doing productivity and start being productive as well as how to determine when you have a need for a new tool |
| 2:06.9 | and how to maybe test out that tool, as well as working on projects first and tasks second. |
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