Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

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Social Media: Scaling, Engaging, and Connecting with Mari Smith Sep 11, 2013

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Mari Smith is one of the world’s leading social media strategists and widely recognized as THE top Facebook marketing expert in the world. She is author of The New Relationship Marketing and coauthor of Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day.

Fast Company describes Mari as, “A veritable engine of personal branding, a relationship marketing whiz and the Pied Piper of the Online World.” Forbes recently named Mari as one of the top ten Social Media Influencers.

Covered in this episode:

There’s no amount of sophisticated technology that will take the place of live in person connecting. - @MariSmithClick To Tweet“I think the part that becomes a detriment is when we use the technology for a replacement for connecting in person, as a replacement social life, as a fix, as pseudo connection. I struggle with this almost on a daily basis. I literally have to make myself get off the computer, off the phone. When I go out with friends or I’m in a social environment or in a business setting, I try to really just be mindful and not bury myself in my technology and put it away and connect with people in front of me.” -Mari Smith
Simple Social Media Strategy: Content Creation, Engagement, Conversion
Manageflitter.com
Scoreboardsocial.com

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Digital Detox: Unplugging and Taking 25 Days Off Social Media with Baratunde Thurston Aug 31, 2013

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Baratunde Thurston is the CEO, co-founder, and hashtagger-in-chief of Cultivated Wit. He wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black and served for five years as director of digital for the satirical news outlet, The Onion. When he’s not delivering keynote talks at gatherings such as SXSW Interactive, LeWeb, and Personal Democracy Forum, he writes the monthly back page column for Fast Company and most recently wrote a cover story for the July/August issue called #UNPLUG where he chronicles his temporary opt out of social media for 25 days.

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We’re field producers of our own lives. We capture, caption and share experiences instead of living it. - @Baratunde Click To TweetSocial media has become creative expression + KPI’s. We’ve become marketers for campaigns of our life. - @Baratunde Click To TweetThere’s something unhealthy about everybody treating their life like a marketing campaign. - @Baratunde Click To TweetBecause we CAN always be accessible, we feel like we MUST be. Our devices have led this. - @Baratunde Click To TweetMake sure to connect with Baratunde on Twitter and thank him for sharing on this episode. You can even use the hashtag #UNPLUG.

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Morning Routines: What Successful People Do Before Breakfast with Laura Vanderkam Aug 25, 2013

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Laura Vanderkam is a nationally recognized writer who questions the status quo and helps her readers rediscover their true passions and beliefs in pursuit of more meaningful lives. Laura is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, What Successful People Do Before Breakfast, What Successful People Do on the Weekend, and What People Do at Work, now all out in paperback compilation form.

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Work Style: Designing Your Ideal Approach to Work with Susan Baroncini-Moe Aug 21, 2013

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Susan Baroncini-Moe is the founder and CEO of Business in Blue Jeans, a business and marketing consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has worked with clients on four continents, in both profit and non-profit industries, with startups and growth companies, in all different industries, and has been mentoring entrepreneurs and small business owners for over fifteen years. We talk about some lessons from Susan’s new book Business in Blue Jeans.

Covered in this episode:

Business in Blue Jeans – What it really means
Designing your work style
Brain Junk – If you don’t deal with brain junk before you get into your business, it will manifest itself
Grasshoppers and Giants
Positive Equivalents
The List of 100
Rescue Time

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Creativity and Calling: Waiting, Writing, and The In-Between with Jeff Goins Aug 14, 2013

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Jeff Goins is a writer, and a second time guest of the show. You can find listen to his first appearance almost a year ago here. His new book The In-Between is just out, and I am especially excited to talk to Jeff about how the subject of waiting impacts productivity. Jeff will be speaking at Jon Acuff’s upcoming Start Conference, which I will also be attending, so grab your tickets now!

Covered in this episode:

3 things Jeff needs to do every week:

Something to build my brand

Something to build my craft

Something to build my business

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The best things in life, and in work, require slow steady deliberate practice. - @JeffGoinsClick To Tweet

What if being productive wasn’t about doing a lot of things, but doing a few things well? - @JeffGoinsClick To Tweet

What if creativity is more about showing up, than being a genius on the spot? - @JeffGoinsClick To Tweet

It’s a discipline to believe if the idea is good enough, it will come back to you again. - @JeffGoinsClick To Tweet

It’s a great thing to begin your day doing the thing that you love the most. - @JeffGoinsClick To Tweet

Time spent on something that doesn’t end up being your life’s work isn’t wasted. It’s time preparing. - @JeffGoinsClick To TweetGrab Jeff’s new book ‘The In-Between‘ now!
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Simplicity: Routines, Priorities, and Lifestyle Design with Daniel and Vanessa Hayes Aug 12, 2013

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Dan and Vanessa Hayes of SimpleLifeTogether.com join us this week to talk about lifestyle design. We touch on routines, priorities, simplicity and other topics.

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Dan provides business development consultation for select business owners/leaders in niche markets by helping them build an integrated approach to enhancing their company’s web presence, customer/community engagement, content development, search engine optimization (SEO), media platforms, and branded videos.

Vanessa is a Professional Organizer and the Chief Simplicity Officer of Get Simplifized! She provides hands-on professional organizing services for residential and business clients, and also is available for virtual consulting, as well.

Together, they co-host Simple Life Together, a podcast dedicated to leading a simple life in the modern world. The show is routinely listed in”What’s Hot” in 5 categories of iTunes. Make sure to check out the Simple Life Together site and podcast, and let Daniel and Vanessa know how much you appreciated their appearance on this episode.

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ADHD and Productivity: Inbox Zero, Focus, and Slump Recovery with Justin Wise Jul 23, 2013

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Justin Wise is content marketing practitioner living in Des Moines. He helps people and organizations tell their stories online. He started the podcast #THINKDIGITAL. It’s a fun way to talk about new media and play lots of 90s rap.

Covered in this episode:

Knowledge Worker Productivity
Juicing
How Having ADHD Actually Increased My Productivity
Productivity recovery
Power nap
Take a walk
To do lists
Inbox Zero
Beyond the To-Do List interview with Merlin Mann, creator of Inbox Zero
#THINKDIGITAL Podcast
Get an email response from anyone
Five email mistakes you’re making

The most important part is finding that uninterrupted block to do the things that matter. - @JustinWiseClick To TweetMake sure to follow and tweet at Justin on Twitter to let him know how much you appreciated this episode.

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Creative Work: Managing Your Day-to-Day and Making Progress with Jocelyn Glei Jun 03, 2013

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Jocelyn K. Glei is the Editor-in-Chief of 99U.com, Behance’s effort to provide the “missing curriculum” for making ideas happen. 99U has won two Webby Awards for “Best Cultural Blog”. Jocelyn is also the Exec Producer of the 99U Conference, and Editor of 99U’s latest book Manage Your Day-to-Day which will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.

Manage Your Day-to-Day will show you how to:

Stop letting other people (and incoming messages!) dictate your daily to-do list.
Fend off constant interruption and carve out a sacred space for “getting into the zone”.
Conquer information overload and break your addiction to obsessively checking your phone or email.
Let go of the idea of “inbox zero” and optimize the time you spend on email and social media.
Find the right balance of working productively and recharging to keep your energy high.
Hotwire your brain for a-ha moments and push through creative blocks.

Make sure to grab the book here.

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Motivation: Defeating Fear and Doing the Work with Robert D. Smith May 28, 2013

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Robert D. Smith has managed and overseen the career of Andy Andrews, a three-time New York Times best-selling author and in-demand speaker. He has served as a private consultant to numerous best-selling authors, speakers, entertainers, and cutting edge organizations, educating them on the unique methods he has employed to sustain massive success and growth across multiple industries for his entire career. Robert is the author of 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course for Mastering Life Right Now, a simple guide to injecting meaning into every second you live for the rest of your life.

Covered in this episode:

Eat dessert first!
The myth of motivation
The easy way to stop feeling overwhelmed
Two questions that replace any to-do list: “What’s important NOW?” “What’s NEXT?”
Eating No’s for Breakfast
Defeating Fear
Inoculation to Rejection
Andy Andrews – The Traveller’s Gift
Make sure to grab Robert’s book!

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We don’t sing because we’re happy, we are happy because we sing! - @TheRobertDClick To Tweet

Emotions will follow your actions. - @TheRobertDClick To Tweet

Everybody was a nobody until they started doing SOMETHING. - @TheRobertDClick To TweetTweet Robert D. and myself to let us know how this episode has helped you:

Robert D. Smith
Erik Fisher
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Content Creation: Batching, Launching, and High Volume Output with John Lee Dumas May 21, 2013

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John Dumas is the creator and host of the extremely popular podcast Entrepreneur on Fire inspiring people daily. John has interviewed a number of people that have been guests on Beyond the To-Do List as well like Chris Brogan, Dan Miller, Cliff Ravenscraft, Michael Hyatt, Michael Stelzner, Farnoosh Brock, Pat Flynn, Jay Baer, Justin Lukasavige, and Erik Fisher, host of Beyond the To-Do List.

Covered in this episode:

Cliff Ravenscraft’s influence
Two different approaches to similar intent of podcasting
Jaime Tardy – Eventual Millionaire
New Media Expo – NMX
Pat Flynn – Smart Passive Income
The WHY behind a daily podcast, and the HOW
EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey
Swallow the frog – Brian Tracy
John’s Book – Podcast Launch
Erik Fisher on Entrepreneur on Fire
The biggest takeaway from the interviews he’s done

The army’s motto - “We get more done before 9am than the rest of the world does all day.Click To TweetMake sure to tweet John and let him and myself know how much you enjoyed and learned from this episode.