Paul Jarvis on Resilience, Autonomy, Speed and Simplicity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Paul Jarvis is a web designer, best-selling author and gentleman of adventure. Paul has a reputation as the designer whose vision and web design strategy is the prime catalyst for building multi-million dollar businesses. He's worked with Silicon Valley startups, pro sports athletes, Fortune 500 companies, best-selling authors and the world’s biggest entrepreneurs. Paul's new book is 'Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business'.
In this episode he and Erik talk about staying small and avoiding growth to have freedom to pursue more meaningful pleasures in life, and avoid the headaches that result from dealing with employees, long meetings, or worrying about expansion. Company of One introduces this unique business strategy and explains how to make it work for you.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Square, your favorite neighborhood spots run on Square. |
| 0:05.5 | If I opened a little Beyond Beans, coffee, and coaching nook on my block, I'd start with Square. |
| 0:10.9 | As you grow, business gets complex. New locations, more customers, real cash flow swings. |
| 0:17.5 | Square meets you at every step, building a loyal following, smoothing the finances, |
| 0:21.7 | and keeping the day moving. From first sale to second location, it scales with you. Need to |
| 0:28.2 | bridge a slow week? Tools to cover cash flow gaps. Want fans who come back? Built in ways to build |
| 0:34.4 | loyalty and keep them in the loop. What started as that little white card reader now powers the behind the scene stuff that actually matters, inventory, invoices, and those end of day reconciles. |
| 0:46.3 | In short, Square knocks out today's to-dos and unlocks tomorrow's what-ifs so you can focus on the work only you can do. Go to square.com |
| 0:56.6 | slash go slash beyond to learn more. That's SQ, that's SQU-A-R-E dot com slash geo slash beyond. |
| 1:07.9 | Square, meet you there. |
| 1:29.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm your host, Eric Fisher. |
| 1:34.2 | This is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:37.6 | This week I'm excited to share with you a conversation I had with Paul Jarvis. |
| 1:42.0 | He's back on the show to talk about his brand new book, Company of One, |
| 1:47.1 | why staying small is the next big thing for business. And this isn't just about, hey, how can we make our companies not grow? Or why is minimalism of virtue inside of |
| 1:54.1 | business and other things that you might have thought-wise when it comes to this conversation? |
| 1:59.1 | That's not it, although we do touch on that. But it's more about deciding what success is. It's more about deciding what's most |
| 2:07.7 | important in your life and in your business. And it's really about growing your business, |
| 2:13.3 | not just size-wise or money-wise, but growing it in the right way for the right reasons. |
| 2:20.4 | In other words, being rich from the things that really matter in terms of fulfillment in your |
| 2:25.1 | career and not just in terms of growing your business for the sake of growing your business |
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