Productive Insights Podcast: Business Growth for Independent Professionals with Ash Roy

[Case Study part 2] How A Lawyer Uses Podcasting To Get 10 New Leads And 2 New Clients Each Week Amnda Farmer is an owner of Lawyers Chambers on Riley, a boutique Strata specialist firm in Darlinghurst New South Wales.

How Julie Cairns Used Self -Awareness and Mindset to Drive a $6 Million Turnaround (and How You Can Too) - Part 2 of 2 Julie Cairns is on a mission to empower people to live an abundant life free from false beliefs.  In this spirit,

How Julie Cairns Used Self -Awareness and Mindset to Drive a $6 Million Turnaround (and How You Can Too) - Part 1 of 2 Julie Cairns is on a mission to empower people to live an abundant life free from false beliefs.  In this spirit,

How Julie Cairns Used Self -Awareness and Mindset to Drive a $6 Million Turnaround (and How You Can Too) - Part 1 of 2

Julie Cairns is on a mission to empower people to live an abundant life free from false beliefs.  In this spirit, she wrote the book The Abundance Code: How to Bust Seven Mind Myths for a Rich Life Now. She also spearheaded the abundance code documentary in March 2016 to help people everywhere make a shift to the abundance mindset, and seek joint solutions to the most pressing challenges facing our planet.Trained as an economist and statistician where she received a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Julie went on to co-found and run an English school. Julie then went on to work at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then Macquarie Bank (also in Australia). In 2001 she co-founded the Trading Pursuits Group, a financial markets education company where she is the Managing Director.She's got over 20 years of experience in analyzing global economic trends and financial market conditions, and is the co-author of the book Taming the Beasts' Secrets to Profit in Volatile Bull and Bear Markets.She's also studied various aspects of economics, statistics finance and spent 15 years of post-graduate spirits in the financial markets.Julie also happens to be a very dear friend of mine and we chat on Skype very regularly about mindset.

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* TradingPursuits.com

* www.CallAshRoy.com

* www.Youtube.com/ProductiveInsights

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* The Abundance Code: How to Bust the 7 Money Myths for a Rich Life Now

* Taming the Beast: How To Profit in Volatile Bull and Bear Markets

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Noah Kagan Throws Down A $1000 Challenge (Plus How To Push Past Your Comfort Zone) Noah Kagan is the founder and Chief Sumo of Sumo.com and AppSumo.com. AppSumo helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses. - Fast! - Before starting at AppSumo,

Speed Reading: A 7 Step System To Grasp Key Concepts Faster When Checking Emails Or Reading Articles

Hello and welcome to episode 146 of the productive insights podcast. This is your host Ash Roy the founder of productiveinsights.com

I’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks because I’ve been agonising over whether or not to publish this episode. I face this challenge often because I’m always striving to deliver content that is interesting, actionable and useful to you as a listener.

So eventually I asked my team and they said they’d definitely find it useful. I think they’re biased but I’m going to go with their advice and publish this episode anyway.

So today we are going to be talking about speed reading while still being able to extract key concepts and ideas from a given body of text.

We look at how to develop your skills in speed reading, when to use speed reading, (more importantly) when not to use it.

Okay so let's start by defining the term “speed reading” for the purposes of this podcast episode

I define speed reading is the process of rapidly absorbing the key principles, ideas, and actionable strategies presented in a written form (typically in the form of an email, an article or book)

In today's information overloaded environment the amount of information we are required to process seems to be growing by the minute. We have a lot of emails coming in to our inbox, correspondence from various organizations arriving via snail mail, e-books that created an unprecedented access to information that has never existed in the history of humanity, and gazillions of online articles we tend to browse on the web as we educate ourselves in our business pursuits or chosen careers.

So clearly, it would be very beneficial to be able to extract the key ideas from a body of text in a shorter space of time.

And this is where speed-reading comes in. To me, being able to speed read is almost a superpower in today's information overloaded environment.

But to be an effective speed reader I believe it is important to be discerning about when to speed read and when not to speed read. So let's talk about that first:

In my experience, speed reading often means sacrificing access to detailed information that’s presented in a given body of text. The faster you read the less detail you tend to take in especially when it comes to remembering that detail.

So if you're reading up technical document such as terms and conditions of an important agreement that is signing your name against, then speed reading is not the answer in that situation.

If you need to understand and absorb certain principles particularly when you're learning them for the first time (for example when studying physics or learning calculus), speed-reading won't work for you then either.

In other words when you're consuming information that is conceptually heavy and has a lot of detail and related concepts packed into a small amount of text, then speed reading is not going to work for you. Think professional texts with a lot of jargon such as medical text books, accounting principles, legal judgments etc.

I used to read my legal judgements by reading facts of the case and then conclusion but don’t try this at home

How to speed read (Hint: It's about breaking old habits & changing your mindset towards speed reading)

1. Prime your brain for the content by asking yourself what you already know about this topic and making predictions around what you think the key ideas are likely to be

2. Eliminate or minimise subvocalisation

3. Avoid regression

4. introduce soft focus so you can read multiple words (phrases) and take them in at a time.

Amy Porterfield and I Reveal (And Confront) Our Deepest Fears Around Video Content Creation (And Share Actionable Tips Around Mindset)

Amy Porterfield is an online marketing expert, an educator, and the host of a top ranking podcast named Online Marketing Made Easy. She's worked with mega brands like Harley Davidson Motorcycles and has worked with Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins where she oversaw the content development team and collaborated on a groundbreaking online marketing campaign.

Through her best-selling marketing courses, thriving social media community and her popular podcast, she inspires a grounded, tangible and self-affirming sense of "Wow, I can really do this" for over 250,000 online entrepreneurs.

She proves that moving away from step-by-step into action-by-action, even the newest online entrepreneurs can bypass overwhelm and self-doubt and move closer to building a life and business they love.

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* #179: The Real Truth Why I Hate Video (Hint: It's My Weight)

* The Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo

* www.CallAshRoy.com

* www.Youtube.com/ProductiveInsights

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Key Points and Insights

* 3:51 - Intro

* 5:06 - Amy's podcast episode - #179: The Real Truth Why I Hate Video (Hint: It's My Weight)

* Amy's reveals her deepest fears around video creation and why is it important to her to overcome these challenges

* 10:23 - Mindfulness explained

* 13:23 - Amy shares her specific challenges around video creation

* 14:42 - Ash discusses the thin line that separates vulnerability and weakness (Acknowledging and accepting vulnerability is a sign of courage, not weakness)

* 18:02 - The importance of genuine authenticity and the importance of not "faking it" on stage

* 22:41 - Specific action steps you can take right now to overcome your fear

Action Steps

* Name the feeling e.g. "I"m feeling fear" or "I"m feeling shame" and rate it on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being intense and 1 being almost nonexistent)

* Notice where in your body the emotions are manifesting itself e.g. "I"m feeling shame as a tingling sensation in my forearms" or "I"m feeling fear as a pit in my stomach"

Do You Take Your Internet For Granted? Sonia Simone And I Discuss Net Neutrality And How You Can Protect Your Online Freedom Before Its Too Late Sonia Simone is one of the leading authorities when it comes to content marketing and creating high-value ...

Harvard Asst. Professor of Psychiatry — Dr. Srini Pillay — On The Power Of The Unfocused Mind and Productivity - Part 2 of 2 Today I have a very special guest Dr. Srini Pillay — an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.