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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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052: Mind Management for Productivity with David Kadavy

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David Kadavy says: "Productivity isn't so much about time management as it is about mind management."

Author and fellow podcaster David Kadavy discusses how to train yourself to get into and maintain a productive mindset.

You’ll Learn

  1. How to reframe your idea of productivity
  2. How to label different productive states
  3. How to use different activities to get into these productive states

About David

David Kadavy is author of the #18 Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty and the host of the Love Your Work podcast. Prior to writing Design for Hackers, David founded the Design departments at two Silicon Valley startups, and freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice. David also launched numerous other projects on his own, none of which failed hard enough to be worthy of mention here.

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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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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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029: Gaining Quicker Traction in Your New Role with Dr. Michael D. Watkins

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Dr. Michael D. Watkins says: "I think that the foundation of every great transition, regardless... of your level, is your ability to speed up the learning process when you come in."

Professor, author, and consultant Michael Watkins shares best-practice strategies and tactics for getting the optimal start in a new role at work.

You’ll learn:
1. The most critical ingredient for a successful transition
2. How to accelerate your arrival at the “breakeven point” for your new role
3. The key questions to discover what you REALLY need to know quickly

About Michael
Dr. Michael D. Watkins is a Co-founder of Genesis Advisers and Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the IMD business school. Previously, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Dr. Watkins wrote The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Smarter and Faster, which The Economist recognized as “the on- boarding bible.” The enduring classic has sold more than a million English copies and has been translated into 24 languages. The revised and expanded 10th Anniversary Edition released in 2013. At IMD, he is the Director of the “Transition to Business Leader” program. At Genesis Advisers, he leads a team that designs enterprise transition acceleration solutions for client organizations. Dr. Watkins is the author of numerous additional books and articles on leadership & transitions published in the Harvard Business Review and other top publications.

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