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May 22Chetna Bhatt: Understanding Stress to Improve Performance
Chetna Bhatt is a part-time in-house employment lawyer, speaker, executive coach, and the co-founder and CEO of Being Lawyers.
Being Lawyers is a coaching company specifically designed to help lawyers enhance their performance by increasing their mental clarity and improving their wellbeing.
She strongly believes that for lawyers to reach their greatest potential and achieve the next level of success in their careers, the secret lies in establishing a solid foundation in their emotional and mental wellbeing.
Chetna joins me today to share her journey of overcoming a chronic illness and how it led to the development of her executive coaching career. She shares how stress impacts your performance and ability to be present, engaged, and creative and how identifying and addressing the “invisible variables” that increase stress can help you manage it more effectively.
She also shares strategies she uses to relax her mind to enable her to focus on achieving her goals, why she believes sleep and exercise play a significant role in her ability to stay productive as well as the “non-negotiable” self-care activities she enjoys to help her stay healthy and increase her productivity.
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This Week on The Power to Live More Podcast:
How stress impacted her professional performance and ultimately led to her chronic illness diagnosis.
Identifying and addressing “invisible variables” to effectively understand and manage stress.
How understanding her stress and focusing on her wellbeing enabled her to be more present, engaged, creative, and productive.
How she finds work-life balance while working part-time and building a business.
How she manages and prioritises her daily tasks and to-do lists.
Strategies she uses to calm her mind so she can focus on achieving her goals.
Her perspective on procrastination.
Challenges she faces with delegating tasks and hiring a team.
The importance of getting plenty of sleep and exercise.
The “non-negotiable” self-care activities that help her stay healthy and productive.
Activities she enjoys to help her relax and unwind.
The importance of working with a coach or mentor for personal growth.
Strategies she uses to learn and improve her skills.
How she manages setbacks in her personal and professional life.
What “living more” means for her.
Resources:
Google Drive
Mac Calendar
LastPass
Audio Memos
One Note
Todoist
Connect with Chetna Bhatt:
Being Lawyers
Twitter
LinkedIn
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to iTunes or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favourite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website, join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect up with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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51 min
May 15Amber Christian: Kickstarting Your Productivity
Amber Christian is the founder of Wonderly Software Solutions and creator of Bella Scena, which helps freelancers and small business owners create a unified view of their work through a calendar, to-do list, and meeting planning application.
Amber drew on her experience of running a treasury consulting firm to build a second business devoted to providing a technical solution that addresses the unique productivity and collaboration challenges faced by freelancers and small companies.
Amber is a regular author and public speaker on a variety of technology topics and is currently the Chair of the Managing Information Systems (MIS) advisory board at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Amber joins me today to discuss why she was inspired to create the Bella Scena programme, leading to her running two companies full time to bring her vision for a new productivity product to fruition.
She shares her journey from running a service-based consultancy company to building and providing a product and the challenges she has faced throughout the process.
She also explains why entrepreneurs need to have a roadmap of where they are going with their business, why she recommends being intentional about tasks, and how to plan your day to take advantage of the peaks and troughs of energy in your day and week.
“There is a whole hidden benefit to being intentional about your tasks”
Amber Christian
This Week on The Power to Live More Podcast:
What Amber did when she couldn’t find an app to solve her frustrations with tracking tasks
How she envisions further developing Bella Scena
Why Amber never imagined starting a tech company
The importance of active dialogue with clients and customers
Why Amber values teamwork-centered design and how she uses it in her business
The benefits of focusing on one critical task per day
How to build a day that allows you to flex if something unexpected crops up
Why your worst task should be your priority
The importance of gratitude and reflection to mental wellbeing
Why Amber never schedules meetings after 3pm
Which apps and programmes keep Amber on track and at peak productivity
Why you need to embrace learning new skills as your business iterates
How to successfully outsource as your business develops
Resources Mentioned:
Instant Meeting
Evernote
Google Calendar
The Five Minute Journal
Bella Scena
Atlassian
Coschedule
Connect with Amber Christian:
Bella Scena
Bella Scena on Instagram
Bella Scena on Twitter
Bella Scena on Facebook
Wonderly Software Solutions
Wonderly Software Solutions on LinkedIn
Amber Christian on LinkedIn
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favourite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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46 min
May 08Hazel Addley: Setting Boundaries and Staying Healthy
Hazel Addley is dedicated to helping creative professionals and entrepreneurs feeling stuck or bored in their business or career answer the age-old question: “What’s next?”. She helps people find their meaning and their purpose in their life, business, and career, and transform it into a life they love living through her home-based coaching business.
Hazel has a background as a freelance arts manager and a has diploma in Personal Performance Coaching from The Coaching Academy. She is also one of the first EAM (Energy Alignment Method) Mentors in the world. She draws from her personal experiences and challenges to help her clients achieve their goals.
Today, Hazel joins me on the show to discuss how running a coaching business compares to working as a freelance arts manager and how she structures her work day to stay productive without sacrificing her free time. She also shares how she ensures she remains healthy as a busy entrepreneur.
“If you don’t have a sense of boundaries with how you do your work, then you could feel pressured to work all the time.”
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This Week on the POWER to Live More Podcast:
Why she chooses to work structured hours
Her morning routines and daily structure
How planning your workday ahead can help improve your productivity and reduce stress
How she uses Microsoft Excel in her business
Time management strategies
The Power of an Hour strategy – blitzing tasks you don’t enjoy doing
Fitting exercise and nutrition into the entrepreneurial lifestyle
Investing in self-improvement
How she detaches her emotions when things don’t go right
How taking a ‘time out’ can benefit your life and your work
Mentioned Resources:
Trello
Color Notes for Android
Alison Nixon’s free Smoothie e-book
The Miracle Morning book by Hal Elrod
Energy Alignment Methods with Yvette Taylor
The Power of Now book by Eckhart Tolle
Abraham Hicks on YouTube
Connect with Hazel Addley:
Hazel Addley Coaching
Hazel Addley Coaching on Facebook
Hazel Addley on Twitter
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to iTunes or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review of the show!
You can also help me reach even more amazing home-based business owners by sharing your favourite episodes on your favourite social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website join my Facebook Group, and follow me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to connect and interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided brilliantly (my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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44 min
May 01Faye Watts: Habits, Goal Setting, Self Care, Weight Lifting, Singing and Mindfulness
Habits, Goal Setting, Self Care, Weight Lifting, Singing and Mindfulness with Faye Watts of FUSE Accountants LLP.
What We Recommended:
Tools & Apps
Salesforce, a CRM and Sales Platform – “In the office we use a thing called Salesforce, which is an on-line platform. All of our software is on-line based, web based, so that we can have access anywhere. That means that it gives me and the rest of the staff the opportunity to work from home or elsewhere at any time with instant access.”
Rightmove – for inspiration “is my other favourite app because that gives me the inspiration. I love property and I love architecture and it just gives me the inspiration to want to achieve more and get a bigger house. It helps me focus … It’s almost like looking at my dream houses and that helps wire me and gets me working towards goals.”
Books
More Balls Than Most by Lara Morgan
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Music
Country Music – “For me, I’d rather turn the music up loud in my downtime. I like country music so I turn that up as loud as I can and just get into my zone.”
Tips
Really important to stick to a routine “Well, I have to stick to a routine because I’m rubbish otherwise. If I don’t, I don’t keep my day on track. I schedule everything I do. I have a routine in the mornings, I catch up on emails. Then, I always make sure before lunch I work on one job to get it out the door. That might be a client’s tax return, some accounting, some advice, whatever that might be.”
Schedule telephone calls including with clients – “I tend to schedule phone calls with clients for half an hour, an hour, if I know that they want to discuss something in detail rather than get into the habit of allowing phone calls to interrupt the day and then you lose momentum.”
Minimise distractions, especially when working at home – “I don’t like distractions in terms of when I’m at work. I think when you’re working it’s important not to use the time to put washing on in between or decide to do an hour of ironing. I think it’s key that when you’re working you’re working, no matter what environment you’re in, that you still have dedicated time slots.”
Being clear about what’s work and what isn’t and how to switch between the two – “When I go home I go home. That’s it. Time out. I have a personal trainer that I train with twice a week and I do that within working hours. I have a 9am on a Friday morning and a 5pm on a Monday evening. The point of that is they’re in working hours because they really are a disciplined time of my day. They’re an appointment that I can’t reschedule so that my evening time is my evening time. I have a very clear line between what is work and what is life.”
Planning and goal setting is essential – “I diarise everything wherever I can and I’ve got to-do lists in every part of my life. I’ve got to-do lists personally. I even have a list of all the restaurants I want to go to, and all the things I want to do, and the countries I want to go to, and the hotel I want to stay in. Also, from a daily point of view, I break my task list down into today’s to-do list and maybe this month’s or this year’s so I have clear goals. Though using the word ‘to-do list’ I think is a little bit harsh and it can be a bit draining. You think, “I’ve got to do that.” Whereas, perhaps having a year’s goal list or a goal plan or having today’s priorities, try and avoid the to-do list because I think that’s really onerous.”
Self Care is key to business success – “ I looked at my health, my diet, my weight, managed to lose some weight, and really focused this year on mindfulness and stepping back from work and saying, ‘Okay, my health is just as important as my work because it effectively has a knock on effect on what I do and how I work.’ My job’s very taxing, for want of a better cliché.”
Eating healthily is really important and it’s about working out what works for you – “Mentally, I used to suffer with a lot of brain fog and confusion if my diet was poor. I found that if I changed my way of eating, and my patterns of eating, my diet, and my whole exercise routine, that I managed to eliminate the negatives of that. I’m a bit of a low carb girl, a bit of a high protein and veg. I know what works for me. I know what doesn’t work for me and my weakness right now is coffee gelato. Then, I’m in real trouble.
Work on improving your habits – “You lose habits really quickly if you have the right mindset. It’s just forming habits. I think you just have to be really conscious of habits that you’ve formed and the ones that make you feel positive and the ones that make you feel negative. It’s strange to me to have such discipline, but it’s discipline that forms a habit and then once you’ve got the habit it just becomes part of your life.”
Comment from Jo “I was reading something the other day. I think it’s from the book, “The One Thing.” It was talking about how habits are formed through little pockets of self-discipline. People think that successful people are really disciplined 24/7 sort of thing. It was making the point that that isn’t necessarily the case. It’s just about having enough discipline to do that one thing and to do that one thing on a regular basis to the point it then becomes a habit. Then, you don’t need the self-discipline because you just do it. Then, you use that discipline for something else, which I thought was really interesting.”
Doing meditative things for mindfulness
Faye is improving her weight dead lifting “it’s also really amazing on your mind because you cannot think of anything else. You’re in the zone where you’re just pushing your body to its limit. Even though it’s not physically relaxing, it’s mentally relaxing because your brain can’t think about anything else and you just switch off”.
And Faye also sings “There’s a lot of focus, and you’re thinking about the words, you’re thinking about the sounds, you’re thinking about the vowels, and everything when you’re singing. Again, there’s no place to think of anything else. Also, it’s so deeply relaxing and enjoyable if you make a nice sound.”
I want to learn anything new. I like the idea of stretching my brain, not in terms of more education, but more knowledge and power and more … I think it helps you improve strength of character and your own emotional intelligence. That’s probably more important.
Turning your phone off – “when I do get home the phone goes upside down on the hall room table. I mean, I check it occasionally because my work and my personal phone are the same. I couldn’t deal with two phones. I do just come and look at it, but I won’t look at my emails because my emails will only ever be work related, but I’ll check my texts or whatever.”
Pets – “I’ve also got a kitten so I love to come home to my little kitten. He gives me a lot of pleasure.”
“I have certain rules. I won’t put my mobile phone on charge in my bedroom and I don’t have a TV in my bedroom because I think the bedroom and sleeping is … It’s for two things, the bedroom. We’ll leave it at that. I like that to be a zen. It’s a very, very neutral zen.”
Websites
Pinterest – “I love Pinterest. It’s my obsession actually because I create a mood board and all the things that inspire me. Actually, I learn from that as well. Visually I’m learning things. I think everything you learn from if you just open your mind to it.”
To Contact Faye
Twitter @taxandtea
FUSE Accountants
FayeWatts.com
LinkedIn
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42 min
April 24Eric Partaker: Achieving Peak Productivity Performance
Eric Partaker is a Peak Performance Coach helping CEOs and founders in the tech industry to fulfill their productivity and leadership potential.
Eric began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and went on to help build Skype before selling it to eBay in 2005. After the success of Skype, Eric wanted to get back to doing something that would fulfill him personally and decided to combine his love of restaurants and Mexican culture to start a Mexican restaurant chain.
Although they seem varied, Eric’s career choices have always been influenced by his desire to be challenged and inspired. His current endeavour as a Peak Performance Expert has allowed him to share his unique set of skills and knowledge with others in the business world and to continue pursuing his own version of his best self.
Eric was named “CEO of the Year” at the 2019 Business Awards and one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs in the UK” by Startups Magazine. His book, The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever, was released in 2020.
In today’s episode, Eric and I discuss his unusual path to coaching and why he believes that the road to success is different for everyone. He shares what inspired him to begin his own journey to “peak performance” and why he constantly strives to be among the best in whatever he does.
He provides insight into the 80/20 rule for productivity and how it has helped him simplify his to-do list. Eric also shares the three most important things to implement into your routine for better productivity and how he has used them to achieve a life of significance and success.
“Peak performance is simply operating at your highest level in the areas of life that matters most.”
Eric Partaker
This week on The Power to Live More Podcast:
Why so many of us focus on the wrong things in life and how to find success with significance
What “peak performance” means to Eric and why he’s driven to reach his full potential
How Eric’s various careers are all connected by his desire to be challenged, inspired and happy with his work
An explanation of the 80/20 rule in evaluating your job or business productivity
Why you should reach out to others with more experience when starting a new venture
How Eric’s coaching has evolved and expanded to include more self-guided courses
Why Eric keeps his organsation and task lists simple
The three things to implement into your routine for better productivity
Resources Mentioned:
Asana
Google Docs
Google Sheets
Book: The 3 Alarms by Eric Partaker
Connect with Eric Partaker:
Eric Partaker’s Website
Eric Partaker on LinkedIn
Eric Partaker on Instagram
Eric Partaker on Facebook
Eric Partaker on YouTube
Join the POWER to Live More CALM Membership
Attention home-based coaches and consultants!
Are you tired of feeling alone, isolated, and frustrated with running your home-based coaching or consulting business? Are you sick of feeling like your life would be better, and you’d be happier if you felt more organised and productive? Do you feel like there’s simply not enough time in a day to get all the things done that you need to do to build a successful business while making time to live more?
It’s time to stop the isolation and start getting more organised, productive, and focused on the tasks that will move the needle forward.
It’s time to join the POWER to Live More CALM membership!
If you’re ready to:
Stop recreating the wheel and focus on the things that truly matter in your life and business
Learn what you need to know to be successful and ‘live more’
Get accountability help from a group of like-minded home-based business owners
Then you need to join the POWER to Live More CALM membership program!
To learn more about the POWER to Live More CALM membership program and apply, visit PowerToLiveMore.com/GetCalm
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favorite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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42 min
April 17Karen Williams: Living More through Flexibility and Boundaries with Karen Williams
If you want to write and publish your own book because you have great ideas that can make a difference in the world, then what you need is a book mentor. A book mentor is someone who will help and guide you through the process of writing your own book – from the planning stage, writing, and even publishing and marketing.
My guest today is Karen Williams, a book mentor for Librotas.
She creates structure, comes up with strategic plans, and sees things from a different perspective. These skills allow her to mentor and work with clients from all over the world.
Karen joins me to share how to find the balance between setting boundaries and being flexible so you can be most productive in your personal and professional life. She also shares some practical tips on how you can have the power to do more in your business by knowing when to invest in outsourcing. She does her best to live in the moment as she points out the impact that her project called ‘A Year to Live’ has made on her life.
“For me it’s about the flexibility and building into the life I want to lead.” – Karen Williams
This Week on the POWER to Live More Podcast:
Weekly routine over morning routine
The challenge of working too hard or not working enough
Benefits of using post-its and a CRM (customer relationship management) system
Details of the writing retreat she organises in Spain
The significance of having regular breaks
Why having a mentor is important
Why outsourcing is a great way to get support in your business
Common problems with startup businesses
Finding the secrets to the success of other coaches and business people
How journaling helps when things go wrong
Karen’s Advice for Professional and Business Development:
Be realistic when scheduling tasks.
Learn to step up by having a coach or a mentor.
Know what your expertise is and get support to help you in areas where other people are the experts.
Find three ways of marketing your business and do it well.
Know who your ideal clients are.
Set up a system.
Resources Mentioned:
Less Annoying CRM
Evernote
Hootsuite
A Year To Live Book by Stephen Levine
The Big Leap Book by Gay Hendricks
Connect with Karen Williams:
Librotas Website
Karen Williams on Facebook
Karen Williams on Twitter
The Secrets of Successful Coaches Book
How to Stand Out in Your Business Book
The Mouse That Roars Book
Book Marketing Made Simple Book
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to iTunes or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favourite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website, join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect up with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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47 min
April 10Scott McCarthy: The Power of Delegation
Scott McCarthy is the founder of Moving Forward Leadership, a leadership consulting company and podcast that offers coaching services to business owners, government and nonprofit organisations as well as stay-at-home parents.
He is passionate about helping people move forward and become better leaders. In addition to working as a leadership coach, he is also a Senior Canadian Army Officer, commanding a logistics squadron of 200 soldiers.
Scott joins me today to share the power of delegation as he wears different hats throughout the day. He discusses how he empowers others to level up their leadership skills as he trains them to make better decisions as well as the tools he uses to manage his tasks given his diverse roles.
He also shares the necessary mindset change that makes things move forward faster and how helping and inspiring others is his picture of a perfect day where he gets to live more.
[spp-tweet tweet=”“Push your decision-making to the lowest level because what happens is the decision-making process speeds up.” – Scott McCarthy”]
This Week on the POWER to Live More Podcast:
Scott’s workstations and how he manages to work at eight different locations
The driving factors that inspires him to do what he does
How he prioritises his tasks and things to do
Why he doesn’t need cutting-edge technology to get the job done
Who helps him get things done
How he empowers his team
Why lunchtime is his favourite time of the day
Why he believes in quality over quantity
Resources he uses for personal development
How compartmentalising helps him when things don’t go right
How he uses his alone time in the evening to get over the day’s challenges
Resources Mentioned:
G Suite
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Calendly
Zoom
Fit Man Project Podcast
Kwik Brain Podcast
The Power of When Book by Michael Breus
It’s Your Ship Book by D. Michael Abrashoff
Smart Couples Finish Rich Book by David Bach
Connect with Scott McCarthy:
Moving Forward Leadership Website
Moving Forward Leadership Podcast
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to iTunes or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favourite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website, join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect up with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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47 min
April 03Amanda Davie: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Amanda Davie began her career working in client services with online advertising companies and digital media startups.
After sixteen years of helping to build small businesses and honing her customer relations skills, Amanda decided to branch out on her own and use her unique qualifications to help cultivate inclusive and equitable workplaces.
She is an executive coach and co-founder of Equal Talent, a company that provides group coaching to encourage a more balanced and high-performing work culture. She is also the co-founder of She Has No Limits, which supports and uplifts women through coaching, personal development and community building.
Today Amanda and I discuss the road map of her career and how hitting the glass ceiling as a feminist in the business world compelled her to start a new career path.
She provides insight into the underlying patriarchy of our culture and how to move beyond it with confidence.
Amanda shares her personal journey and the challenges she has faced as a feminist and an empath. She also discusses the ways in which COVID-19 has affected women in particular and offers some guidance on practising self-care and self-compassion.
“There is power in the sisterhood. When you bring women together as a collective, powerful things happen.”
Amanda Davie
This week on The Power to Live More Podcast:
The role of the “Queen Bee” in the repression of women in business
Her journey from client services to coaching and how hitting the glass ceiling propelled her to pursue a new challenge
How her core values influence her approach as a coach
The art of connection as a tool for combating loneliness
How COVID-19 has exposed the deep-rooted issues in gender equality
The role that mothers take on and why it feeds the patriarchy
How she prioritises her time and practices self-compassion
The challenges of being a feminist in the business world
The logistics of running a business in partnership with others
How the challenges and trauma from her family of origin influenced her professional journey
Resources Mentioned:
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Brené Brown
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy
Connect with Amanda Davie:
Equal Talent Website
She Has No Limits Website
Equal Talent on LinkedIn
Equal Talent on Instagram
Equal Talent on Facebook
Equal Talent on Twitter
She Has No Limits on Instagram
She Has No Limits on Facebook
She Has No Limits on Twitter
Amanda Davie on LinkedIn
Amanda Davie on Instagram
Amanda Davie on Facebook
Amanda Davie on Twitter
Join the POWER to Live More CALM Membership
Attention home-based coaches and consultants!
Are you tired of feeling alone, isolated, and frustrated with running your home-based coaching or consulting business? Are you sick of feeling like your life would be better, and you’d be happier if you felt more organised and productive? Do you feel like there’s simply not enough time in a day to get all the things done that you need to do to build a successful business while making time to live more?
It’s time to stop the isolation and start getting more organised, productive, and focused on the tasks that will move the needle forward.
It’s time to join the POWER to Live More CALM membership!
If you’re ready to:
Stop recreating the wheel and focus on the things that truly matter in your life and business
Learn what you need to know to be successful and ‘live more’
Get accountability help from a group of like-minded home-based business owners
Then you need to join the POWER to Live More CALM membership programme!
To learn more about the POWER to Live More CALM membership programme and apply, visit PowerToLiveMore.com/GetCalm
Connect, Share, Inspire
Thank you for joining me for this week’s episode of the POWER to Live More Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to help support the show, please head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review! You can also help me reach even more amazing business owners and leaders by sharing your favorite episodes on your social media channels.
Don’t forget to check out my website join my Facebook Group, follow me on Twitter and connect with me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram to interact with me and my amazing audience!
Show notes provided (brilliantly, my words not theirs!) by Lidwell Writing Services, LLC
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52 min
March 27Henry Daas: Getting Your Head in the Game
Henry Daas is a serial entrepreneur, business and ﬁnancial genius, screenwriter, and blogger who helps coach his clients to be more financially successful through his company Daas Knowledge.
His background in financial and business management allows him to show entrepreneurs ways to break through the revenue plateau and thrive in their business rather than just survive.
Henry currently lives in New Jersey, with his wife of 30 years, although he loves being location independent. In his leisure time, he enjoys playing golf and tennis, writing books and screenplays, travelling, and collecting baseball cards.
Henry joins me today to share how he manages his time and workload to be as productive as possible, including how he coaches his clients to use their ‘optimal time’ to get tasks done.
We discuss his entrepreneurial apprenticeship, why he always planned to start his own business, and how the practicalities of entrepreneurship have evolved over the last 30 years. Henry also shares his experience of the psychology of business and the habits that ensure he is in the best mental space to have a calm and successful day while achieving his goals.
“The last thing you want to do is force a situation to happen when you are not in the right frame of mind.”
Henry Daas
This Week on The Power to Live More Podcast:
How Henry’s career developed over the years
The life events that prompted him to move into coaching
How and why he wrote a detailed business plan for coaching
What a typical day looks like for him and why he loves to be flexible
Why he doesn’t multi-task
How Henry trained himself to focus for solid blocks of time
Top tips for delegating and outsourcing
Understanding how to be a manager and why it will help you scale your business
How Henry learns and improves himself
Why Henry sometimes leaves the office and goes to play golf instead
How to recognise the signs that you need someone to help and coach you
Resources Mentioned:
Dan Sullivan
Wunderlist
Scrivener
Bullet Journal
OneNote
StrengthsFinder
Connect with Graham Frost:
Daas Knowledge website
Henry Daas Website
Henry Daas on LinkedIn
Daas Knowledge on Instagram
Daas Knowledge on Facebook
FQ Financial Intelligence: What You Really Need to Know About How to Manage, Invest and Grow Your Money by Henry Daas
5 Reasons Small Business Fail download
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March 20Janine Ogg: Asana, Digital Learning, Templates, Outdoor Pursuits and Sub 20 Hour Businesses
Asana, Digital Learning, Templates, Outdoor Pursuits and Sub 20 Hour a Week Businesses with Janine Ogg, Co-Founder of Get It Done Mum.
What We Recommended:
Tools & Apps
“I’m a huge advocate of Asana. With our latest project, which is launching our own podcast, we’ve got all the templates in place now, and it makes it a lot more efficient.”
Unroll.Me – to make unsubscribing from newsletters quick and easy
SaneBox – I recommend this for managing and triaging your email
Canned Responses in Gmail, which is a template tool. “I’ve got a bunch of templates saved in there now, and that saves me hours of time composing e-mails.”
“We use Google Hangouts a lot too.”
Shortkeys – Jo uses this on her PC to create templates that ‘magically’ appear when a short code is typed in.
“We’re both using Headspace. Jo and I have both signed up for that in the last couple of months, and we put that on the business because we decided the mindset of being in a good head space is really essential to living a healthy and successful life as an entrepreneur”
Jo did a search for gamification and to-do lists to find something to suit Little Doddsy and what came up is called Habitica
Other Resources
“What sort of learning am I doing now?” and I realised just how much more I’m doing my learning via podcast or online, like even sometimes via things that come through Facebook, or Sam and I listen to a lot of TED Talks. We’re doing a lot of our learning via new online technologies now. It’s quite interesting just to reflect on that.”
Books
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, which is a meditation book about mindfulness meditation.
Succulent Wild Woman by Sark. “She’s an artist who has pretty much built a business empire, become a very savvy businesswoman. She just writes these books that … They’re funny, they’re creative and artistic. They’ve got lots of drawings in them. They’re all about living life succulently, dancing with your wonderful self.”
The Four-Fold Way. “This is a leadership book. It’s Walking the Path of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary, and it’s by Angeles Arrien. She’s an anthropologist. This was the textbook that my life coach gave me when I was in my mid-20s, maybe, and I did a life coaching programme.”
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which is about food “because I was a vegetarian for about twelve years, and this is one of the books that I ended up moving back to eating meat again”.
Radical Simplicity, “which is all about basically a “less is more” approach to living your life. That’s really influenced where we’ve taken the business, really, if I think about it, because it’s all about how the choices that you make in terms of what you spend and how you set your life up influence how much you need to work and what we can do to set ourselves up so that we are having a smaller footprint on the earth as well as being able to do more of what we love doing and not be focused on having to work, work, work, work to pay the bills or pay the mortgage or whatever it is that’s putting that pressure on us.
Tips
“I guess the key one here for us, and what we’re teaching about a lot is around strategy, because we believe that no matter how many to-do lists you have or how many amazing technological tools you’re using, if you don’t have your strategy right, it doesn’t matter. You’re still not going to achieve what you’re setting out to achieve if you don’t have the right strategy in place. We consistently see people spending a lot of time on things that aren’t actually contributing to what it is they want to achieve in their business.”
“What we do to be really productive and really focused is we have two really clear milestones that we have for our business. Usually one’s around an income generation milestone and one’s, for us, an audience building milestone.”
“We have what we call a parking lot, which is where we put things where we’re like, “Should we really be working on this right now?” You know those bright, shiny objects that come up and you’re like, “This looks really cool, but should we actually be doing it right now?” We’re constantly asking ourselves that question. If it’s a “no,” if it doesn’t fit with what our current targets are, then we put it in the parking lot and come back to it later.”
“I work three hours a week on my passion project as well, which is a river project. That keeps us busy outside of work.”
“I guess as I get older I’m getting better at being more aware and noticing my signs for when I’m getting out of balance, when I’m over-tired, when I need to take some time for myself. I definitely still don’t get it right all the time, but I’m getting there. That’s probably one of my biggest learnings, is just how important it is to give yourself that time when you need it to be able to recognise those signs and also just keep perspective about what’s important and what’s not.”
Podcasts
“I’ve been going through a phase of trying to get out for an evening walk a couple of times a week too, and I tend to listen to podcasts then. Sometimes I’ll listen to business-related stuff, especially because we’re launching our own podcast at the moment, but often I’ll just listen to stuff that I’m interested in as well. There’s just so much there to discover. It’s incredible.”
Websites
“What I do is I’m a member of an online gym called foreverfit.tv, which is run by a Kiwi woman called Nicola Smith. I’ve interviewed her a couple of times, actually. I love her business model and I love what she’s doing. She’s a personal trainer who took her business online, and she’s got this incredible online gym. It’s packed full of quick and easy workouts that are really effective.”
To Contact J9 (Janine)
Janine Ogg https://www.linkedin.com/in/janineogg/
“We’re also launching a podcast in the next few weeks, so if you’d like to listen to some of the stuff we’re chatting about on the podcast we’d love to have you visit. The focus of that is around building your business in twenty hours a week or less.”
Tweet: “I’m a huge advocate of Asana. With our latest project, with templates, it makes it more efficient.” @getitdonemum https://ctt.ec/rY764+
Tweet: “the mindset of being in a good ‘headspace’ is really essential to living a healthy and successful life as an entrepreneur” https://ctt.ec/2Ka5X+
Tweet: “We have what we call a parking lot, where we put things where we’re like, “Should we really be working on this right now?” https://ctt.ec/tecgx+
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