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Asian Efficiency is the leading website on time management and productivity. Learn how to be efficient, get things done (GTD), and stay motivated.
Asian Efficiency is the leading website on time management and productivity. Learn how to be efficient, get things done (GTD), and stay motivated.
Every Monday morning Jeff Sanders is here to help you dominate your day before breakfast and apply the best productivity strategies for high achievers! Discover how to bounce out of bed with enthusiasm, create powerful lifelong habits, and tackle your grandest goals with extraordinary energy. The 5 AM Miracle is a practical self-improvement podcast that features interviews with authors, speakers, and highly successful people from around the world. This weekly podcast focuses on productivity, ...
A weekly advice podcast for people who work from home, whether freelancer or telecommuter. We address listener-submitted questions, comments and concerns about all aspects of working from home.
Welcome to The Less Doing Podcast with your host, Ari Meisel. Ari is a self-described "overwhelmologist" and founder of Less Doing. He helps entrepreneurs find focus, flexibility, and freedom in their business. The methodology enables founders to become replaceable so they can scale their business. His raving fans include folks like Tim Ferriss, Dan Sullivan, Victoria Labalme, Jim Kwik, and Steve Sims. So if you want to discover new tools, tech, habits, ideas, and workflows to improve your p ...
The business, market, and ESG news, brought to you by experts, edited for humans. After more than two decades of experience as ESG company and market analysts and eight decades of experience in fact-based snark, we make business and investing news suck less for real people and the investor-curious.
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Be A Better Writer With Our 4-Step Process and Recommended Tools (TPS346)
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On the Asian Efficiency website, we have over 600 blog posts. That’s close to a million words that have been written and we didn’t even include all the newsletters, course materials, workbooks, and everything else we produce. We write a lot and in this episode, we’ll share how we get so much writing done. We share our 4-step writing process, which …
Ari talks with Than Pham, who shares his story as a child until he came to the U.S. He explains the importance of not being an extreme multitasker and why. Highlights His background and dream - 2:33 Figuring out what to do with his life - 4:16 The worst thing: extreme multitasking - 4:49 Being a multitasker - 6:50 Time management and doing things i…
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Big Sweaty Angry Bag of Biz Nuggets! Amazon continues to pee, investing advice on TikTok, Silicon Valley promises stuff to Asians! Plus, voicemail!
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Big Sweaty Angry Bag of Biz Nuggets! Amazon continues to pee, investing advice on TikTok, Silicon Valley promises stuff to Asians! Plus, voicemail!By Free Float Media
This week, Ari released the latest and possibly his last book On Productivity. How do we define productivity today? Check it out in this episode! Highlights Mindset is not static - 2:12 Being more productive and effective - 2:37 As productivity increases, cost does too - 4:35 It’s all about mindset - 5:32 Change your relationships with your expecta…
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Cancel EVERYTHING! Amazon is a urologist now! Plus, a listener Uyghur question, and Matt Makes your net zero carbon CEOs die!
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Cancel EVERYTHING! Amazon is a urologist now! Plus, a listener Uyghur question, and Matt Makes your net zero carbon CEOs die!By Free Float Media
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Be A Better Writer With Our 4-Step Process and Recommended Tools (TPS346)
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On the Asian Efficiency website, we have over 600 blog posts. That’s close to a million words that have been written and we didn’t even include all the newsletters, course materials, workbooks, and everything else we produce. We write a lot and in this episode, we’ll share how we get so much writing done. We share our 4-step writing process, which …
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Eliminate Financial Stress with YNAB Founder Jesse Mecham
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Episode Summary Of all the things that keep me up at night, money is #1. No joke. If you have stress about your finances (and you probably do), it’s time to put a real plan in place that can not only reduce your stress, but create real, tangible progress for decades to come. In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I speak with Jesse Mech…
Emma and Damion Sadness Hour Special! Matt is taking care of the kids, so Damion and Emma decided to sit down and do a special dish on all their feelings. Matt would have hated it.By Free Float Media
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The Good Game AND March Sadness!! Corporate double speak about voter suppression? Google carbon efficient maps? Also, the FINAL FOUR is announced!!
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The Good Game AND March Sadness!! Corporate double speak about voter suppression? Google carbon efficient maps? Also, the FINAL FOUR is announced!!By Free Float Media
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Wars special! Amazon vs. Everyone, Big Data vs. Congress, a giant ship vs. sand! Plus, listener calls and questions, and Matt Makes some Bro Culture at Blackrock!
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Wars special! Amazon vs. Everyone, Big Data vs. Congress, a giant ship vs. sand, Mary Barra vs. black people! Plus, a listener question about China vs. Uyghurs! Emma makes a top 10 list, Dunkin' Guy calls back, and Matt Makes some Bro Culture at Blackrock!By Free Float Media
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The 3X Rule: Solve Your Recurring Problems Once And For All (TPS345)
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How many things in your work or personal life do you just “put up with”? It could be mistakes that happen, a tool that annoys you, or someone that you work with that slows things down. At Asian Efficiency we have a principle called the “3 Times Rule” to get to the root of all these things once and for all, which lets us move forward quickly and eff…
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How many things in your work or personal life do you just “put up with”? It could be mistakes that happen, a tool that annoys you, or someone that you work with that slows things down. At Asian Efficiency we have a principle called the “3 Times Rule” to get to the root of all these things once and for all, which lets us move forward quickly and eff…
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Live By These 6 Truths and Be Happy with Sid Garza-Hillman
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Episode Summary Happiness can be elusive, but if our approach to life is backwards, backfiring, or just plain wrong — happiness may be an impossible dream. In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I speak with Sid Garza-Hillman, author of Six Truths, about what happiness is and how we can radically shift our approach to life, mindset, and…
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MARCH SADNESS ROUND 1: Apollo's HUGE McDonald's upset, and Twitter BLANKS Facebook! Plus, Emma steals a company and AMC on Voicemail Investing!
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MARCH SADNESS ROUND 1: Apollo's HUGE McDonald's upset, and Twitter BLANKS Facebook! Plus, Emma steals a company and AMC on Voicemail Investing! Brought to you by DIE, the official ETF of March Sadness!By Free Float Media
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Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Pfizer gonna gauge on COVID vaccine? Uyghur news? Sauciest ESG headline this week? Taco flavored Slurpees?
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Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Pfizer gonna gauge on COVID vaccine? Uyghur news? Sauciest ESG headline this week? Taco flavored Slurpees? Plus, what award do you want in your board bio, and top ten reasons to stop being a CEO. $PTON, $AMZN, $BRK, $MSFT, $DSN, $FB, $ZOOM, $GS, $CS.By Free Float Media
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Leon Black steps sideways from Apollo's Epstein mess! Starbucks gets a NO on pay! Is Draftkings proxy the bro-iest ever?
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Leon Black steps sideways from Apollo's Epstein mess! Starbucks gets a NO on pay! Is Draftkings proxy the bro-iest ever? Today's episode brought you by TruNovation InvestAlytics: Your ESG Investicle Solution, and by the makers of Lexaxanaxapro.By Free Float Media
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#269: OmniFocus and Shortcuts with Special Guest: Scotty Jackson
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The Power Of The Accountability Trifecta, w/ Debbie Rosemont (TPS344)
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Want to know the secret to achieving your goals and getting your important work done? It’s not time management, apps, or tools – it’s ACCOUNTABILITY. But what does that mean? And how do you find accountability for yourself? In this episode, I’m joined by Debbie Rosemont – a Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant who is the fou…
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The Power Of The Accountability Trifecta, w/ Debbie Rosemont (TPS344)
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Want to know the secret to achieving your goals and getting your important work done? It’s not time management, apps, or tools – it’s ACCOUNTABILITY. But what does that mean? And how do you find accountability for yourself? In this episode, I’m joined by Debbie Rosemont – a Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant who is the fou…
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8 Life-Changing Tiny Habits: The Toe-Dipping Strategy You Need Now
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Episode Summary A marathon is actually 40,000 individual steps. Isn’t that surprising? Running 26.2 miles roughly equates to putting one foot in front of the other 40,000 times.As much as we value crossing a finish line, it’s the tiny details that make the prize possible. In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I discuss tiny habits, but…
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MARCH SADNESS RETURNS! Fill out the bracket! Who's taking the tourney for saddest corporate sack? Perennial favorite Facebook, or upstarts like Tegna and Bitcoin?
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MARCH SADNESS RETURNS! Fill out the bracket! Who's taking the tourney for saddest corporate sack? Perennial favorite Facebook, or upstarts like Tegna and Bitcoin? $MCD v. $APO, $TGNA v. $RTNTF, $FB v. $TWTR, $TSLA v. $AMZN, $CVX v. $MNST, $PLTR v. $CCL, $WMT v. $BTC, $TSN v. $BLK!By Free Float Media
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The Good Game! Elon Musk is Technoking? Palantir criticizes... someone else? ESG executive pay targets? Ford's progressive nepotism? RATE IT!?
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The Good Game! Elon Musk is Technoking? Palantir criticizes... someone else? ESG executive pay targets? Ford's progressive nepotism? RATE IT!?By Free Float Media
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A Musky Day: Elon vs. vaccines (and reality), founder and billionaire fetish, the NFT craze, and a voicemail from Woke Dunkin' Guy
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A Musky Day: Elon vs. vaccines (and reality), founder and billionaire fetish, the NFT craze, and a voicemail from Woke Dunkin' GuyBy Free Float Media
As Ari is arriving on the last 20 podcasts of Less Doing, he wants to share an experience of a day in the life of a replaceable founder. Highlights The book about productivity - 1:02 How you can make yourself more replaceable - 1:32 The most successful people never check their email inbox first thing in the morning - 2:50 Using asynchronous communi…
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Want To Do A Productivity Reset? Here’s What We Would Do (TPS343)
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If you’re just starting out in your productivity journey, you are in a GREAT situation. You can optimize right away, and you can learn from what has worked for others and, where it makes sense, apply it to yourself. It’s a gift that will pay off for years to come. However, maybe you’ve been working for a while. What lessons do you WISH you had lear…
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Want To Do A Productivity Reset? Here’s What We Would Do (TPS343)
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If you’re just starting out in your productivity journey, you are in a GREAT situation. You can optimize right away, and you can learn from what has worked for others and, where it makes sense, apply it to yourself. It’s a gift that will pay off for years to come. However, maybe you’ve been working for a while. What lessons do you WISH you had lear…
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One-Moment Meditation with Martin Boroson and Carmel Moore
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Episode Summary When most of us picture someone with a great meditation habit, we often think of someone playing soothing music in a room by themselves while sitting in the lotus position for 20 minutes, an hour, or more every day.As it turns out, it doesn’t require that much to meditate — not even close. In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle …
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The Blowhard Index! Roblox big buy! Alpha all over! Elementary school vs. intern! Soup plays! Plus, voicemail investing: the woke ESG hedge?
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Damion bought big into $RBLX Roblox’s direct listing IPO bringing his portfolio to 54% drug and drug adjacent stocks! Then $CPB Campbell’s Soup faces off against $CL Colgate Polmolive in the battle of the boring! We have two takes: 4th graders vs. the intern Jordan! Also, voicemail investing asks: is $RICK RCI Hospitality a good hedge AGAINST ESG?…
Ari shares a traumatic memory he had as a kid and how learning from that experience has helped him in his businesses and can help you too. Highlights Ari’s negative memory - 0:38 A frustrating thing about riptides - 1:36 Having a traumatic experience - 2:02 What happens when you’re in a riptide - 3:34 Focus on getting unstuck - 4:29 Episode Resourc…
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Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Banana PlayStation controllers? Mistaking diversity for the valet? 20 months to rid yourself of the N-word? Plus, we go to the voicemails!
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Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Banana PlayStation controllers? Mistaking diversity for the valet? 20 months to rid yourself of the N-word? Plus, we go to the voicemails! If you want to rant, rave, or pontificate, call 872-FLOAT-72 and leave us a message for the show! Get woke on tape!By Free Float Media
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International Women's Corporate Plant Based Appreciation Day! Plus, our royal correspondent throws down, and Matt Makes a guess: smart board members or sharks?
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International Women's Corporate Plant Based Appreciation Day! Plus, our royal correspondent throws down - American royalty kicks British royalty's ass. And Matt Makes a guess: do investors like smart board members or sharks?By Free Float Media
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476 - Asynchronous vs Synchronous Communication with Joanna
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Ari talks with Joanna, a Less Doing Certified Coach with over 20 years of experience working at mom and pops, non-profits, start-ups, and entrepreneurs as a consultant and coach. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in the storytelling space, and is adept at guiding entrepreneurs to increase productivity by returning to their own stories. The…
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Affordable Productivity Apps: How To Be More Productive With A $100 Budget (TPS342)
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When searching for productivity apps, you’ll find thousands of apps out there. How do you know which one is right for you? What if you had a limited budget? It’s easy to spend hundreds of dollars on apps only to find out that most are garbage. So in this episode, we set a challenge for ourselves with our top picks of productivity apps with a budget…
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Affordable Productivity Apps: How To Be More Productive With A $100 Budget (TPS342)
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When searching for productivity apps, you’ll find thousands of apps out there. How do you know which one is right for you? What if you had a limited budget? It’s easy to spend hundreds of dollars on apps only to find out that most are garbage. So in this episode, we set a challenge for ourselves with our top picks of productivity apps with a budget…
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Going All-In: The Myth of Work-Life Balance and The Power of Focus
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Episode Summary Balance is a losing game. If you want true success, choices have to be made and extreme focus has to become your new way of life. In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I discuss how going all-in is significantly more effective for goal achievement and happiness than any futile attempt at work-life balance. Episode Show …
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The Blowhard Index! Jordan's Moderately Upset Money Hot Takes: Regeneron, Danimer, and Public Storage! Plus, Tootsie Roll v. Dow - WHO YA GOT!
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The Blowhard Index! Jordan's Moderately Upset Money Hot Takes: Intern Jordan says BUY $REGN Regeneron because of cat allergies, $DNMR Danimer because of CEO beards, and $PSA Public Storage because of COVID! Plus, $TR Tootsie Roll v. $DOW Dow management teams head to head - WHO YA GOT!By Free Float Media
