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Sep 16
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061: Crafting Your Perfect Day with Craig Ballantyne

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Craig Ballantyne says: "Most people aren't massively successful in life because of the things that they do. It's because of the things that they're able to avoid."

Coach Craig Ballantyne shares how you can plan the perfect day that will enhance your productivity at work without letting your job take over your daily life.

You’ll Learn:

  1. How to plan “the perfect day”
  2. A simple time management trick to skyrocket your productivity
  3. Approaches to cultivating self-discipline now by creating a vision of your future

About Craig
Craig Ballantyne is a Productivity & Success Transformation Coach from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. He has been contributing to Men’s Health magazine since 2000, and in 2001, Craig created the popular home workout program, Turbulence Training.
On his journey to success, Craig had to overcome crippling anxiety attacks, and he beat them with his 5 Pillars of Transformation. Today Craig shows men and women how to use the 5 Pillars to lose weight, make more money, and achieve other goals.
You can read his daily essays on success, productivity, and fitness at EarlyToRise.com.

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Sep 02
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056: Conquering Procrastination with Rita Emmett

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Rita Emmett says: "The dread of doing a task often uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself."

Recovering procrastinator and professional speaker Rita Emmett lays out a handy framework for overcoming procrastination in the heat of the moment.

You’ll learn:

  1. How to tackle the fears that breed procrastination
  2. Approaches to turn procrastination into prioritization
  3. The 5-step STING method to overcoming procrastination

About Rita
Rita Emmett was once The World’s Greatest Procrastinator. Then she converted and is now a “Recovering Procrastinator”.

She is also a professional speaker, and author of: The Procrastinator’s Handbook, The Clutter-Busting Handbook, and Manage Your Time To Reduce Your Stress. The books have sold over 300K copies in 42 countries, garnering Rita hundreds of media appearances, including Katie Couric.

Rita’s customized presentations cover Procrastination, Clutter, Customer Loyalty, Burn-out, and Communication Skills have helped hundreds of organizations improve their performance, productivity and profitability, and head off burnout before it starts. Her clients include AT&T, Kraft Food, Mercedes Benz, Met Life, and The National Kidney Foundation.

She emails a free monthly “ANTICRASTINATION Tip Sheet” available at www.RitaEmmett.com with tips and ideas to help people blast away the procrastination habit.

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Aug 29
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054: Defining and Achieving “Success” with G. Richard Shell

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G. Richard Shell says: "Being 'Awesome at Your Job' means doing something you do well, that you're excited by, that pays you."

In episode 54, Professor G. Richard Shell discusses how to find happiness in your work.

You’ll Learn:

  1. The importance of changing your metaphor for success
  2. How to find happiness in every domain of your life – particularly careers
  3. How to self-monitor progress to land in a place of achievement AND fulfilment (instead of a crisis)

About Richard

G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of Business. There, he created and teaches the famous Success Course. His books include the best-selling Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. He is director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop.

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Jul 29
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042: Contextualizing your To-Do List with Ben Elijah

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Ben Elijah says: "When you're capturing information, you're not there to do quality control. Your job there in that moment is to get the stuff out of your head."

Popular productivity blogger Ben Elijah of inkandben.com fame teaches how to form effective habits and provides pro-tips on determining optimal contexts to rock your to-do list.

You’ll learn:

  1. The importance of context in your day-to-day to-do list, and how you can use it most effectively
  2. How Ben jots down ideas while in the shower (and now I do too)
  3. How to ingrain new habits by using the habit loop

About Ben
Author of The Productivity Habits, Ben studies how our relationship with information affects the way we live and work. As a writer who straddles science and the arts, Ben has a uniquely analytical approach to problems such as information overload, life goals, and well-being.

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Jul 20
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038: Establishing the Essential with Greg McKeown

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Greg McKeown says: "People plateau in their progress as they make a millimeter progress in different directions."

Author Greg McKeown expounds the idea of essentialism–the disciplined pursuit of less, but better.

You’ll Learn:
1. The meaning of essentialism and why to eliminate non-essentials
2. How to use extreme criteria to determine priority
3. The power and importance of having some buffer time

About Greg
Originally from London, England, Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” and the founder of THIS, Inc, a company with a mission to inspire millions of people to design their essential mission in life. Their clients include Adobe, Apple, Airbnb, Cisco, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!

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