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**The Less Doing Podcast**

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 productivity, this is the audible hang you’ve been searching for. More at http://less.do/podcast

Latest Episodes:

460 - Constraints Aug 09, 2021

Show notes

What would you do if you could work for only an hour a day? What are the constraints?

Highlights

The Less Doing system - 0:51
Unlocking constraints - 1:07
Growing and working - 1:58
Removing your constraints - 2:53
It is not just about removing them - 3:33
Do you use an hour to complete a task? - 4:24
Unlocking constraints is not about finding more time - 5:40
The lack of resources force innovation - 6:43

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459 - Team Structure Aug 09, 2021

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When having a team and people that work for you, it’s so important to have structure. Ari explains how and why it’s important to have a team and create a structure to get things done.

Highlights

Your clients and customers are part of your team - 0:53
Two ways that entrepreneurs stress out their teams - 1:36
The entrepreneur’s team and mind - 2:14
Your team is everybody - 2:59
Having a structure to do things - 4:13
Create a structure for you and your team - 5:40
Management vs. leadership - 7:26
Leadership is about empowerment - 8:06

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458 - Decision Making Aug 09, 2021

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Decision making is something that all of us do. How many decisions do you make in a day? Do you feel exhausted at any point? The hidden stress with having to make decisions.

Highlights

We get overwhelmed - 1:13
Having a decision making problem - 1:24
Making decisions your whole life does not mean that you are good at it - 2:10
We do not have a structure - 3:21
Wasting a lot of time - 5:15
Deal with it right now - 6:04
Delegate effectively - 7:25
Defer things - 8:00

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457 - Working Within Your Constraints Aug 09, 2021

Show notes

Multitasking is a really damaging thing. Training ourselves to be better in using our time is a mindset. Learn how you can control what’s urgent and what is not in your life by listening to this episode.

Highlights

The communication SOP - 1:35
One tool for external communication and one tool for internal communication - 1:49
Urgent communication - 2:17
Controlling urgencies - 2:49
What urgent looks like - 3:50
Avoiding interruption - 4:30
What focus looks like for you - 5:54
You need to find the right system - 7:44
Become more flexible - 8:58

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456 - Who is Managing Your Calendar? Aug 09, 2021

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Let’s talk about how your calendar looks. In this episode, Ari talks about his full calendar and how he is working with private clients.

Highlights

Having a full calendar - 1:03
More than one calendar - 1:13
Having a full calendar is overwhelming - 1:32
A big fan of using calendly - 2:13
Manage your energy and resources - 2:56
A calendar 100% full - 3:57
How your time is used - 4:40

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455 - Let’s Talk About Procrastination Aug 09, 2021

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This is a hot topic. Everybody feels that they have some procrastination. Ari uncovers the truth around this.

Highlights

Why procrastination is rude - 0:46
Why we choose to procrastinate - 1:17
With procrastination, you have decided to do something - 2:15
His experience snacking - 5:08
An example of procrastination - 5:28
Doing what you said you were going to do - 6:15
A very important tool - 6:52

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454 - Stopping the Podcast Aug 09, 2021

Show notes

I do not want to do this podcast anymore. I do not want to do it anymore and that’s what I’m going to do. I will stop at 500 episodes.

Highlights

I’m not going to stop the podcast right now - 0:36
I will stop the podcast at 500 episodes - 1:04
What I’ve done - 2:09
Being creative right now - 2:45
Preferring to create content for people that have paid for it - 3:13
The way that I like to produce content the most - 4:44
Doing more than one episode per week - 5:53

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453 - Crohn's Follow Up Aug 09, 2021

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This is a different episode where Ari talks about Crohn’s disease. He shares his experience overcoming the disease.

Highlights

Ari’s story with Crohn’s disease - 0:32
Being really sick - 1:04
Training hard - 1:38
Curing himself - 3:04
Stress as an inflammatory agent - 3:50
Control stress and control the disease - 4:02
An extensive article that is on Medium - 5:02
The power of being in control of things in your life - 5:53
Gluten-free and low-carb - 6:58
It is all about control - 8:20

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452 - Ultimate KPI and Being Replaceable Aug 09, 2021

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What’s the ultimate KPI? Learn more about it as Ari explains and more about how making yourself replaceable does not mean being replaced.

Highlights

Automatization and outsourcing - 0:22
Making replaceability part of your job - 0:45
People grow in different ways - 1:20
We need to extend the culture of being replaceable - 2:01
Being irreplaceable makes you stuck - 2:57
Making yourself more replaceable - 3:18
Finding ways to improve - 3:40

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451 - Why Voxer? Aug 09, 2021

Show notes

I switched my programming to offer one-on-one private coaching. I shut down the operations of Less Doing and I have been focusing on coaching using asynchronous communication as the best tool, that’s why I recommend using Voxer!

Highlights

Why is Voxer a good tool? - 1:05
Voxer is the only tool that provides audio and text messages - 1:21
Settings in Voxer - 2:09
What does Voxer do for you? - 3:11

Episode Resources

Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUF8np9Eb4c&feature=youtu.be

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