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329: 3 Steps to Create a Life Full of ENERGY and Live Your Best Every Day

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When CNN affectionately refers to you as the “female Jerry Maguire,” people pay attention. And as well they should.

Her name is Molly Fletcher and she is a trailblazer in every sense of the word – a rare talent of business wisdom, relationship brilliance, and unwavering optimism.

She has also authored five books, with her latest being a book called The Energy Clock: 3 Simple Steps to Create a Life Full of ENERGY and Live Your Best Every Day.

As a popular keynote speaker, she shares the unconventional techniques that helped her thrive as one of the first female sports agents in the high-stakes, big-ego world of professional sports and, now, as a successful entrepreneur.

I learned, among other things, that color-coding my calendar/planner can actually make a huge difference in my already solid system. It was the missing piece, in fact, that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Thanks, Molly!

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318: 5 Steps to Kill Busyness with Garland Vance

Author of Gettin' (un)Busy

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A couple of years ago, I had the tremendous opportunity to speak at a conference attended by about 500 authors from around the world.

One member of that audience was a man named Garland Vance.

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According to Garland, he decided right then and there that, once his book was finished, he would make it his goal to appear on the Read to Lead Podcast.

Well, here we are. It is my pleasure to welcome Garland to Read to Lead and it’s an absolute treat to tell you with 100% sincerity that Garland’s book is one of the best I’ve ever read on purpose and productivity.

It’s that good.

It’s called Gettin’ (un)Busy: The 5 Steps to Kill Busyness and Live with Purpose, Productivity, and Peace.

It is possible for you to be highly productive AND un-busy at the same time. Garland shows you how.

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274: An Audio Summary of Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt

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Every month for the past two-plus years, I’ve been meeting with members of my online book club to talk through the most recent book we’ve gone through together.

Last month, that book was one whose focus is on productivity. But not just any kind of productivity system. No.

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This productivity book gets right what so many in my view get wrong: how to actually achieve more by doing less.

The book in question is called Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, and the author is Michael Hyatt.

This is by far one of the most practical books I’ve read in a long time. It’s one you’ll find super easy to take action on. After all, that’s the point, right?

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270: 7 Simple Actions to Get the Right Things Done and Achieve Your Goals

With Accomplish It author Mridu Parikh

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I first met today’s guest at a conference I was keynoting back in 2016.

She was one of those rare folks who immediately put me at ease with her friendly demeanor and positive attitude.

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Her name is Mridu Parikh and now, three years later, she has written a brand new book called Accomplish It: 7 Simple Actions to Get the Right Things Done and Achieve Your Goals.

I read this one from cover to cover, and though a few of the actions she recommends were things I was already doing, I learned plenty of new tactics and strategies I plan to implement to take my productivity to a new level.

I believe that no matter where you are on the productivity “scale,” you’ll find something of value in Mridu’s book.

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242: Building Atomic Habits with James Clear

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

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I first met today’s guest in September 2015 as he and I sat together on a panel at the first-ever Tribe Conference put on by mutual friend Jeff Goins.

His name is James Clear, and he is best known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be readily applied to daily life and work.

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I love that, in this New York Times bestseller, he draws on ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

That new and bestselling book is called Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results).

It’s going to reshape the way you think about progress and give you the tools and techniques you need to transform your habits and achieve a success that lasts.

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