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231: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Highly Efficient and Reclaim Your Life with Kris Ward

Author of Win the Hour, Win the Day

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Today’s guest knows how to get attention. In a good way, of course.

She reached out to me recently with her compelling story that included a personalized video she created.

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Kris shared with me that she was inspired to write the book when the cards life had dealt forced her team to move forward without her leadership for a time.

The resulting book is called Win the Hour, Win the Day: Time Management for Small Business.

In it, Kris hopes to help teach you how to accelerate your business beyond your wildest dreams while reclaiming time for yourself.

Time management, she says, isn’t about going faster or being in a constant state of high activity. It’s not about being busy; it’s about being productive. Amen!

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204: Finding Happiness, Focus, and Productivity No Matter How Busy You Are

with Free-Time Formula author, Jeff Sanders

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It wasn’t that long ago that today’s guest found himself in the ER wondering whether he’d just suffered a heart attack.

This despite the fact that he was a marathon running, healthy eating, 32-years-young man. What in the world?!

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The good news for Jeff Sanders is it was actually something relatively minor (an esophageal spasm, accompanied by shortness of breath, according to doctors). This scary-at-the-time episode, it turns out, was brought on by overwork and stress.

Jeff’s body was trying to tell him something. It was time to make some dramatic changes. This is where you and I reap the benefits. Jeff has indeed made some major changes since then and learned that, while caffeine and little sleep work when it comes to getting things done, they only work temporarily. Then what?

That’s what Jeff and I spend the better part of our time today chatting about.

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Episode #196: 5 Steps to Achieving Your Most Important Goals

With Your Best Year Ever author Michael Hyatt

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To say I’ve been anticipating sitting down with today’s guest for a long time would be a major understatement.

Since Read to Lead began back in mid-2013, Michael Hyatt has been on my short list of people to seek out. If you’ve ever read my About Page, you know his is among the names I’ve included as having influenced my personal growth and development over the years.

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He’s even responsible for helping me name the show, though he didn’t know it at the time. You see, it was Michael who I first heard say, “Leaders read and readers lead,” and “Leaders are readers.”

When I was trying to decide what to call this podcast I’d conceived, I remembered back to those quotes and quickly realized the show’s name was hidden in there somewhere.

Today, Michael is here to talk about a subject I believe he’s better-suited to speak on that just about anyone I know.  That subject is goal setting.

Michael’s new book, out today, is called Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals. In a word, it’s incredible!

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Episode #183: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months

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I read, like, a lot. And though many of the books I read (and the authors who write them) wind up being featured on the podcast, there are plenty that don’t (and not because they’re not worthy).

Sometimes it just comes down to scheduling or any other number of issues. Suffice it to say there are plenty of authors I’d love to interview that haven’t yet made it on. But that shouldn’t mean we can’t dive into and discuss their latest book, right?

12 Week Year by Brian Moran

The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran and Michael Lennington is just such a book. It was released in 2013. Like Deep Work, another book I read earlier this year, it has revolutionized how I work. I think it can do the same for you.

In today’s episode, I share some of the key insights and main ideas from the book, as well as a couple of other episodes that compliment this one quite nicely (see below for links).

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Episode #132: Self-Help for the Rest of Us with Terry Lancaster

From the #1 bestseller Better!

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terry lancasterMy guest today lives in my town, but we’ve never met. His name is Terry Lancaster.

Suffice it to say it won’t be long before we do meet face-to-face. He’s pretty awesome.

He is an entrepreneur, speaker, and #1 best selling author. He helps salespeople and entrepreneurs create better lives and build better businesses one step at a time using the power of habit, focus and flow.

He is a TEDx speaker and his articles have appeared in Forbes and The Good Men Project.

Terry’s #1 bestselling book is Better! Self-Help for the Rest of Us.

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