Productivity Straight Talk | How To Improve Personal Productivity & Time Management To Maximize Profits For Entrepreneurs

In this episode, I sit down with Mariah Secrest-Comer, host of the Wellthy Boss Show and owner of the online wellness company. Mariah walks us through how she works to create healthy self-care and fitness practices for entrepreneurs just like you so you can have more energy for your ambitions. We also discuss how your level of activity directly affects your productivity, the best way to work new behaviors into your paradise zone of automated habits, the effect of surrounding yourself with healthy company, and how to overcome the limiting belief and myth that any time spent investing in yourself detracts from your work, business, or family. This was an awesome discussion with Mariah I hope you enjoy. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Why Fitness Is So Important For Your Productivity, Business, And Life Mariah’s Top 3 Tips For Attaining Lasting Wellness How To Identify Your Fitness Sweet Spot One Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When It Comes

In this episode, I reveal the truth about multitasking, introduce the concept of switchtasking, and offer suggestions to complete your workload with the utmost efficiency. I also talk about the effects of multitasking, the best way to power through your tasks effectively, and how to combat natural triggers that lead you off a productive path. I hope you enjoy my episode on multitasking and encourage you to examine your methods of maintaining efficiency to see if changes are needed. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Whether Multitasking Is Your Best Friend Or Possibly Your Greatest Foe The Two Different Types Of Multitasking What You Should Do If Multiple Tasks Demand Your Attention The Effects of Alternating Back And Forth Between Tasks So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Research Study By Gloria Marks Book: The Myth Of Multitasking By David Crenshaw Article: The Art Of Multitasking: Friend Or Foe?

In this episode, I sit down once again with author, podcast host, and business mindset alchemist Holly Worton. This time, however, we dive into the immense power your mindset can have over your results and discuss how to transform your mindset to start showing up in your business and the world the way you want to. We also talk about what working in flow should be like and a technique called Psych K that helps reprogram your self-conscious beliefs. Finally, Holly reveals how starting her coaching business was like pushing a boulder uphill, what was keeping her stuck, and how she pulled herself out of the mud. This was an awesome discussion with Holly I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: The Signs Of Mindset Issues You Need To Watch Out For A Fast And Easy Way To Shift Your Self-Conscious Beliefs How Your Who Am I? Mindset Could Be Holding You Back Techniques To Release Energy Blocks To Streamline Taking Action So Much More! Important

In this episode, I venture a little outside the topic of productivity to talk about an essential activity entrepreneurs need to spend more time indulging in – self-care. I discuss what happens when you don’t take care of yourself consistently, the snowball effect that occurs when you do, and the smart investment that has a priceless ROI every time. I also lay out examples of self-care that could provide you the rejuvenation you need, how to recognize when you need to switch gears and indulge in radical self-care, and the type of self-care that is potentially harmful. I hope you enjoy my episode on self-care and encourage you to pursue a self-care routine. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Why It’s Necessary To Indulge In Self-Care Even When It Doesn’t Seem Feasible The 2 Types Of Self-Care You Should Unselfishly Practice Ways You Can Ensure Your Self-Care Needs Are Met So Much More!

In this episode, I sit down with Brianna Berner of Spiked Parenting as she unpacks the different 16 personality types, unfolds what we don’t know about how they influence our time management, and shares how she uses Myers Briggs as a tool in her business. Brianna also dissected my personality type and instructed how to use your personality strengths and weaknesses to obtain the results in time management you desire. This was an awesome discussion with Brianna I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: A Breakdown Of The Four Different Personality Categories How Time Management Is Affected By Your Personality Type The Situations That Make Your Secondary Personality Type Take Over Where To Take The Test To Find Out Your Personality Type So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: SpikedParenting.com Personality Quiz Be The Boss Of Your Time Course 16Personalities.com MyersBriggs.org Brianna On Facebook Brianna O

In this episode, I lay out the top features of digital task lists that make them the right choice for entrepreneurs, discuss how they can make you more effective and efficient, share useful tips for getting the most out of your digital task list, and divulge how using one can lead you to refocus your efforts on revenue generating activities. I also offer recommendations for productivity enhancing task management programs and encourage you to stay away from a popular one that is not worth your money. I hope you’ll enjoy my episode on digital task lists and encourage you to make the switch to digital, or start maximizing the capabilities of your digital task list. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Why Digital Task Lists Are More Effective Than Paper Ones How You Can Easily Disallow Repetitive Tasks From Falling Off Your Radar (Again) Some Often Unknown Advantages Of Digital Task Lists That Could Be Life-Changing Important Resources & Links From Thi

In this episode, I sit down with author, podcast host, and business mindset alchemist Holly Worton as she walks us through how she went from being an Eco Hotel owner to a successful business coach. She discusses her initial struggle to figure out why her business wasn’t working at first, helping people achieve their goals and release energy blocks, and her favorite method to hyperfocus and get important work done: taking workcations. Holly further discusses what she does the day before workcations that enables her to clear her mind and prep to focus, the possible perks of using the same location each time, and the length of time workcations should last to not risk burnout. This was an awesome discussion with Holly I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: What A Workcation Is And Why You Could Benefit From One How To Properly Prepare For A Workcation Ways To Attain Hyperfocus In A Different Working Environment So Much More! Important Resources & Links

In this episode, I introduce my top 12 time management strategies that can help you improve your productivity, increase your profits, and provide you with more time for the people and things you cherish most.  I discuss ways to best tackle incorporating these Time Maximizers into your work, how creating boundaries can help you improve your productivity, and what you absolutely must do every day to help you refresh and rest.  I hope you’ll enjoy my episode on Time Maximizers and encourage you to make the effort to incorporate them into your routines. Now let’s get to the straight talk!  What You’ll Discover In This Episode:  My 12 Time Maximizers To Increase Your Productivity  What You’re Doing That Could Be Sabotaging Your Productivity  How To Best Deal With Interruptions And Distractions  Quick Tips To Keep Your Productivity On Point  So Much More!  Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Conquer Your Task List Today  How to Conquer Your Day Using The 5 Daily Planning Pavers  How To Get Sh!t Do

In this episode, I provide insight into how I juggled being gone from my office for two weeks. I lay out seven great strategies to keep traveling from significantly disrupting your schedule, workflow, and things at home, as well as causing you an abundance of undue stress. I also introduce seven podcasts I recently tuned in to that could offer you a wealth of incredible and relevant information, discuss the specific goals I set and attained at the Podcast Movement Conference, and divulge my investment that affords me a priceless return every time. I hope you enjoy my episode on ensuring a stress-free return from vacation or a conference and encourage you to implement a few of the tips I laid out. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: 7 Simple Tips To Minimize Stress Upon Returning From Traveling What You Should And Should Not Do The Day Before You Leave How To Establish Clear Expectations With Clients For While You’re Away The Main Thing You Should Refrai

In this episode, I talk about the correlation between daily routines and experiencing productive, efficient, and organized days. I lay out my top tips for creating productive routines that align with your goals, maintaining focus, and achieving consistency and success with your routines. I also address the biggest challenge to having routines take hold, the rewarding habit that can make or break your following day, and the solution to failing routines that breed inconsistent results. I hope you enjoy my episode on routines and encourage you to make the effort to consistently incorporate productive routines into your schedule. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: The Art Of Bookending Your Day With 4 Meaningful Routines 3 Useful Tips For Engineering Routines Fostered For Success How To Find The Right Balance Of Structure To Flexibility Each Day So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: 016 | Habit Stacking To Make Routines Stick W

In this episode, I sit down with content machine Steve Scott who has authored more than 70 books, including more than 20 on the topic of habits! Steve shares his concept of habit stacking, how he built a following writing about his interests, and how to overcome the initial resistance and procrastination all people have when they have a goal that seems too daunting to tackle on a regular basis. Steve walks us through the 13 steps for building successful habit stacking routines, talks about his favorite career habits that have helped him move mountains, and discusseshis worst habit and how he finally broke it. This was an awesome discussion with Steve I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Why More Than 75,000 People Embraced The Concept Of Habit Stacking How You Can Utilize Habit Stacking To Improve All Areas Of Your Life Ways Your Senses Can Prompt Positive And Profitable Actions The Leading Issue To Moving The Needle And Growing Your

In this episode, I introduce a strategy I use every week like clockwork to clear my task list so I can have more focused time to invest in my highest value activities. I dive deep into how you can keep low-value tasks from inundating you and running your week, discuss the immediate, positive effects of completing your weekly Rapid Fire Power Hour, and walk through the three questions to ask to determine which tasks should be completed during your Power Hour. I hope you enjoy my episode on Power Hours and encourage you to start scheduling your own on a weekly basis. Now let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: The Best Way To Knock Off Tiny Tasks And Gain Momentum In Your Work How Repurposing Just One Hour A Week Can Diminish The Monday Blues A Sure Fire Strategy To Minimize Distractions So You Can Be Ready To Tackle Anything So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Get Back On Track With A Rapid Fire Power Hour

In this episode, I sit down with Las Vegas REALTOR® Danny Phee as he walks us through how he leverages his time, shares his journey of hiring a virtual assistant, and discusses the lesson he learned from thinking he was the best person for every job. We also talked about his task delegation system that works, the top three tasks he’ll never outsource, and how you can create something that will benefit others for years to come. This was an awesome discussion with Danny I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: How To Gain More Hours In Your Workday The Secret To Attracting Clients And Compelling Them To Do Business With You What You Can Do To “Get Over The River” Why The Genre You Categorize Your Business As Affects Your Ability To Grow It So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Frank Salas Virtual Assistant Academy Onion Juice Podcast 003 | Your BIG Why Not Just Another Stupid Exercise ScreenShotMonitor.com TheP

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Linda Fogg Phillips as she walks us through her transition from consulting for Facebook to becoming the director of Tiny Habits Academy®, discusses her brother’s evidence-based, breakthrough method of creating habits without relying on willpower, and talks about exactly what you should attach to new habits to make them stick. We also discussed the steps to creating Tiny Habits®, the maximum length a habit should be, and the affirmation Linda starts every morning with to set herself up to be a victor instead of a victim. This was an awesome discussion with Linda I hope you’ll enjoy. Now let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: The Tiny Habits® Method Of Habit Origination What Habits Have To Do With Molecular Biology How Creating The Right Habits Can Change Both Your Business And Personal Life Why Implementing Big Habits (Just Like New Year’s Resolutions) Don’t Work How To Design Your Own Tiny Habits® Recipes Important Resources &

In this episode, I introduce the seven steps to creating a time blocking success schedule along with my top eight tips to aid in its creation, discuss the foundational strategies to maximize productivity, and talk about why it’s important to go slow to go fast when it comes to productivity. I also revealed the secret to not double-book yourself, what you need to hold sacred in order to be successful with time blocking, and which activities you absolutely need to plan for because they tend to creep in and take over your entire day.  I hope you’ll enjoy my episode on time blocking and make the effort to execute on the steps it will take to have your own success schedule. Now let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: What Time Blocking Is And Why It Works So Well To Improve Productivity Strategies For Planning And Scheduling Your Time Blocks How To Overcome Common Time Blocking Challenges So Much More! Parkinson’s Law Pomodoro Technique ScheduleOnce Episode 002 Episode 004 Episod

In this episode, I sit down with Erik Fisher, host of the Beyond The To Do List podcast, as he walks us through the importance of focus, the habits he’s implemented to keep his focus and energy up, and the solution that kept him from occasionally crashing. We also talk about the productivity philosophy that keeps Erik feeling competent and confident, the lesson he learned from the most stressful period in his life, and the tool he uses to kill his fight or flight mechanism so he can maintain focus. I hope you’ll enjoy our interview on focus and hope you’ll decide to heed Erik’s great advice. To find out about and his hidden agenda to begin podcasting and more, let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Techniques To Maintain Focus On The Task At Hand What You’re Unknowingly Doing That Causes Your Inability To Focus How Your Circadian Rhythms Affect Your Work Old And New Technologies That Promote Focus So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: BeyondTheToDoLi

In this episode, I share with you the power of affirmations and how they’re essential to reprograming your mind for success. I also share my own personal affirmations and elaborate more on why I have chosen those specific affirmations to reprogram my own negative self-talk. You will get to meet my son Erik as he shares with us his personal affirmations and how they have helped him in school and Jiu Jitsu. I hope you’ll enjoy my episode on affirmations and I encourage you to take action and create your own customized affirmations. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: The Power Affirmations Have Over Your Success The Link Between Your Thoughts And Your Results How To Create Transformative Affirmations Why It’s Necessary To Reprogram Your Negative Self-Talk So Much More! Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk!

In this episode, I sit down with Denis Asamoah who is better known as Mr. Work Smarter. He is an international speaker on the topic of time management, a consultant, and a productivity coach who left the world of banking to embark on his entrepreneurial journey. Most recently, Mr. Work Smarter wrote his first book in only three weeks! We discuss how he used a learning difficulty as a catalyst to work smarter instead of letting it hold him back, why winning a contest and Instagram gave him the confidence to build his career, and how being a fan of learning insightful and valuable information sabotages his productivity. We also talk about the well-known time management strategies of getting up early, working from to-do lists, and strategic planning and how those strategies can actually prevent you from being productive. I know you’ll enjoy our interview on productivity myths and hope you’ll strive to only implement productivity tips, tools, and strategies that are true to your working style. To find out about t

In this episode, I introduce the relationship between strategic goals and tactical plans, discuss why you may be failing to reach your yearly goals, and instruct on how to create a bullet-proof plan for accomplishing your big goals so there is no way you can fail. I also talked about identifying what you should be focusing on each quarter, one of the most useful keys I’ve found to using a tactical plan, how I dealt with my latest bad day and turned it around for the better, and what tends to happen when you really put yourself out there. I hope you enjoy my episode on tactical plans and encourage you to take the initiative and create your own tactical plan. Now let’s get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: Why Tactical Precision Is Needed To Achieve Your BIG Goals How To Break Strategic Goals Down Into Action Items The Process of Simplifying Your Goals With A Plan Of Attack So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy The Art

In this episode, keynote artist Mike Rayburn takes us on a walk through a day in his life and his entrepreneurial journey. We discuss how his performance and innovation-driven business turns a profit, how he utilizes a casita to increase his productivity, and the three things time management comes down to for Mike. We also talk about how majoring in minor things affects your business, Mike’s greatest personal challenge that he battles daily, and the tasks that give him the greatest payoff. I hope you’ll enjoy our interview on letting go and hope you’ll make the effort to let go a little more in your business. To find out the most important thing Mike ever learned and more, sit back, relax, and let’s get to the straight talk! You can’t make $100,000 a year doing $10 an hour tasks. ~ Mike Rayburn What You’ll Discover In This Episode: How Letting Go Can Help You Quintuple Your Income What Happens As Your Business, Expertise, And Life Grows Whether You Should Hire For The Job You Need Done Now The Triggers That