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Learn everything about time management, life hacks, productivity and getting things done (GTD). A weekly podcast that teaches you tips, techniques and habits for fighting procrastination, staying motivated, managing your email, inbox zero, eat that frog and the Pomodoro Technique. We will also share which productivity apps, tools, systems and platforms experts (such as David Allen, Tim Ferriss, Merlin Mann and others) use to stay productive and efficient. You will also find out the best way to set goals, organize your todo list, calendar and your files, folders and documents.

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Today I’m joined by Paul Maskill, a business coach helping home service business owners systematize and scale their businesses. He’s also a big productivity nerd like the rest of us and we dove into his personal productivity system, how he ...

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01.18.2021 Family Productivity: How to Be Productive While Having a Family w/ Paul Maskill (TPS335) Today I’m joined by Paul Maskill, a business coach helping home service business owners systematize and scale their businesses. He’s also a big productivity nerd like the rest of us and we dove into his personal productivity system, how he ...
01.11.2021 5 Simple Browser Hacks You Can Implement Right Away (TPS334) The web browser is one of the most commonly used tools. You probably spend more than 4 hours a day using it and it’s a powerful tool. If you’re like most people you haven’t looked much into how to use ...
01.04.2021 Personal Outsourcing: How To Win Back 5+ Hours/Week (TPS333) Do you find it hard to find the time, energy, and attention to do everything you want to do each week? It could be that you're doing things that you really shouldn't be doing. Maybe they're things you don't like ...
12.28.2020 Work-Life Balance: How One Family Man Stays Productive While Having Fun w/ Joe Fier (TPS332) Today I’m joined by Joe Fier. He’s the co-host of the podcast Hustle & Flowchart where they interview successful entrepreneurs and go deep about their unique business strategies. He’s also the co-founder of Evergreen Profits where he helps people start ...
12.21.2020 How To Decompress: 5 Stress Busters That Really Work (TPS331) It sounds counterintuitive, but sometimes we need to slow down a bit in order to achieve our goals. Burnout is a real thing, and it is impossible to stay productive if we are going at 100% all the time. The ...
12.14.2020 The Best GTD Apps: Be In Control And Achieve Your Goals With These 5 Tools (TPS330) Here at The Productivity Show, we all use at least an adapted version of David Allen's GTD, or Getting Things Done productivity system. Once you start using GTD the question becomes - what do you use to keep track of ...
12.07.2020 CRM Power Tips w/ Amy Payne – Productivity Consultant and Professional Organizer (TPS329) If you deal with people in your business (and who doesn't?), a key tool is a Customer Relationship Management system, or CRM. Not having one can hold you back, and if you implement the right one the right way, it ...
11.30.2020 Your 3 Step Guide To Make Sure Next Year Is Better Than The Last (TPS328) 2021 is just around the corner and we want to help you get ready for a productive year. I know 2020 has been a weird year for all of us, and we all want to forget about what happened but ...
11.23.2020 It’s Here! The TPS Productivity Gift Guide, 2020 Edition (TPS327) The holidays are just around the corner and that means it’s gifting season for many of us. What would you gift someone who is obsessed with productivity? What would you give someone who you’d like to be more productive? And ...
11.16.2020 Happy People Are Productive People: Turn Your Mood Around In 10 Minutes or Less (TPS326) Have you ever sat down to work on what you are supposed to be doing, and you just don’t feel like it? It’s not an energy problem, you feel fine, but you’re just… not in the mood. Being in a ...
11.09.2020 Feel Exhausted? Try These 5 Proven Rituals to Increase Energy and Productivity (TPS325) The most underrated part of our TEA Framework - which stands for Time, Energy, Attention - is ENERGY. Many of us are trying to improve our time and focus, when it’s often energy that is the real underlying problem. What ...
11.02.2020 Effectiveness Before Efficiency: How Most Productivity Advice Gets It Wrong (TPS324) Since our name is Asian Efficiency, you might think that we are 100% focused on your efficiency. I mean, it’s right there in the name! Well, efficiency is important, but we think it gets too much focus — what’s just ...
10.26.2020 How To Get Unstuck, Rebuild Your Habits, and Move Forward Now (TPS323) We’ve all had situations where we know what we WANT to do to be more productive, but it just doesn’t happen. Maybe it’s a habit we once had but it fell apart over time, or maybe we are stuck and ...
10.19.2020 5 GTD Tips To Become A Power User And Get Things Done Consistently (TPS322) Getting Things Done, or GTD, is one of the most popular productivity systems on the planet, and for a good reason — it helps you be on top of your tasks and obligations by getting them out of your overloaded ...
10.12.2020 Do You Struggle With These Mental Blocks? Remove And Turn Them To Your Advantage (TPS321) Welcome to The Productivity Show, a podcast by Asian Efficiency, to help you maximize your productivity so you can get everything done without having to sacrifice your health, family and things that matter to you. We’ve helped tens of thousands ...
10.05.2020 When A Productivity Expert Wants To Be Productive This is What They Do with Jeff Sanders (TPS320) I’m joined today by Jeff Sanders. He is a keynote speaker, productivity coach, author of The 5 AM Miracle and host of the 5AM Miracle Podcast. As a fellow productivity junkie, I asked him about his morning routine, what his ...
09.28.2020 Ditch Digital Clutter And Stay Organized: 3 Simple Rules That Work (TPS319) Is your downloads folder a huge mess? Do you find it hard to find email attachments you downloaded a few weeks ago? Do you easily get frustrated trying to find files and documents? Then you want to listen carefully to ...
09.21.2020 Decision Fatigue: Here’s How To Outsmart This Productivity Killer (TPS318) How often do you find yourself saying "I can't deal with this right now... I'll figure it out later" or you just avoid decisions altogether? For busy professionals, it's extremely common, and the culprit is usually decision fatigue — the ...
09.14.2020 Become An Outlook Power User – 5 (OK, 9) Easy Tips To Save You Time And Increase Focus (TPS317) If you’ve worked in a decently-sized organization, there’s a good chance that you are, have, or will at some point use Microsoft Outlook. It’s everywhere. The problem is, most of us just start using it, and don’t spend any time ...
09.07.2020 A World Traveler and Entrepreneur Reveals His Personal Productivity System w/ Chris Reynolds (TPS316) Today I’m joined by Chris Reynolds, the founder of the Business Method podcast and Get Shit Done Live! Chris' business and events help entrepreneurs optimize their productivity to reach peak performance consistently, and scale their businesses rapidly using research-driven techniques. ...
08.31.2020 Need to Prioritize? Here’s Our Favorite Tool That You Can Start Using Today (TPS315) How do you prioritize your projects? How do you know which project to work on first and ignore everything else? It’s not as simple as it sounds. Today we’re going to show you how we prioritize projects at Asian Efficiency ...
08.24.2020 How To Get Into Flow State and Make Massive Progress Quickly (TPS314) Have you ever been working on a work or personal project and you realize you've made massive amounts of progress? It feels like the time just flew by, and instead of feeling drained after, you feel awesome and energized. In ...
08.17.2020 The Best Apps and Tools To Work From Home Productively (TPS313) Being productive at home can be a challenge when you don’t have the right tools. By "tools", we are talking about your physical gear - things like desks, chairs, technology, AND digital tools - things like desktop & mobile apps. ...
08.10.2020 Tim Stringer on Managing Personal Tasks & Team Projects, Communication, and Holistic Productivity (TPS312) In this episode, I am super excited to introduce Tim Stringer to the Productivity Show. Tim is a professionally-trained coach, productivity expert, and an accomplished yoga and meditation teacher. He’s the founder of Technically Simple and LearnOmniFocus. As you can ...
08.03.2020 Your GTD Weekly Review: Be Consistent And Achieve “Mind Like Water” Each Week (TPS311) If you've tried David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology, you've probably run into this scenario: You start doing your Weekly Review, and then you miss one, and then you miss another one, and before you know it, things are starting ...
07.27.2020 How To Build a Second Brain and Be More Organized w/ Tiago Forte (TPS310) Today I’m joined by Tiago Forte, founder of Forte Labs and the creator of Building A Second Brain. It’s a system he developed for organizing ideas and information to help people become more productive and creative. If you’re a knowledge ...
07.20.2020 The 5 GTD Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes… Do You? (TPS309) GTD or "Getting Things Done" is a productivity system that has been a lifesaver for us going back to the mid-2000s. As we've talked to members of the community and podcast listeners over the years, we've found that there are ...
07.13.2020 Has The Pandemic Put You Behind On Your Goals? Here’s What We Did To Get On Track (TPS308) Had the pandemic put you behind on your goals? Maybe you’ve completely abandoned your goals altogether when life got too crazy. Given what has been going on in the world this year, you might be thinking "Goals? Those went out ...
07.06.2020 How To Beat Zoom Fatigue, Even If You Don’t Use Zoom (TPS307) Have you ever noticed that at the end of a long web conferencing call like on Zoom or Teams, you feel way more drained than if it was an in-person meeting? The term for this is "Zoom Fatigue", and even ...
06.29.2020 Master Your Calendar: 3 Actionable Tips To Take Control of Your Day (TPS306) Your calendar is your most important productivity tool. It represents so much — what your commitments are, what your opportunities are, and what is going on in your life and your work. In fact, we’d even say that your calendar ...
06.22.2020 See How Easily You Can Start a Side-Hustle w/ Jen Shultz (TPS305) Today I’m joined by Jen Shultz, founder of The Non-Nine-to-Five where she helps people transition from a full-time career to starting a business. She has helped many people over the years and still manages to do everything herself without any ...
06.15.2020 Did You Choose The Right Goals? Here’s How To Find Out And Get Unstuck (TPS304) At the start of the year or quarter you made a goal which sounded fantastic. You were all in. Now? Maybe you're not so sure. How do you know whether the goal you THOUGHT was a good idea truly is ...
06.08.2020 Our Most Useful Productivity Purchases From The Last Year (TPS303) We all know that you can't buy your way to productivity. The biggest factor to you becoming more productive is for you to have focus and to execute as consistently as possible. HOWEVER, applying the right tool, app, book, or ...
06.01.2020 Can Productivity Challenges Help You Grow? Yes! Here Are Ours (And What We Did) (TPS302) If you're listening to this podcast, we're going to bet that you've had some sort of productivity challenge in your life. Maybe you found yourself repeating the same negative habits. Maybe you haven't adapted as well to a new situation ...
05.25.2020 How We Improved Our Lives and Work With Journaling – And You Can Too (TPS301) Do you find yourself with scattered thoughts, not sure what to work on at the start of your day, or do you go to bed with thoughts, tasks, and ideas swirling around in your head? One of the most underrated ...
05.18.2020 Ask Us Anything – Live Q&A On Productivity, Tech, Behind The Scenes, and Working for AE (TPS300) This is Episode 300 of The Productivity Show, and we thought we'd celebrate by turning the show over to you! This is our first Q&A; episode of the show, and we invited listeners of the podcast, readers of the Asian ...
05.11.2020 4 Ways You Can Be Happy, Healthy, and Sane When Stuck At Home (TPS299) There is a lot of information out there about working from home, but most of it is little hacks and tips and tricks. Those are definitely useful, but they ignore the mental and physical side of being stuck at home. ...
05.04.2020 Family and Working From Home: How To Get Things Done When You’re Stuck Together 24/7 (TPS298) The perfect storm has finally happened. Many of us are working from home whether we want to be or not, and if that wasn’t complicated enough, if we have family members, they’re stuck at home too! If you are working ...
04.27.2020 Working From Home? Productivity Tips From Decade+ Work From Home Veterans (TPS297) Recently a lot of people transitioned to work from home and feel out of their element. They’re finding it harder to focus and get things done. They don’t have the right tools, they have their kids at home, a partner ...
04.20.2020 How to Focus While Fear, News and Social Media Is Dominating Your Life (TPS296) Recently, we did a survey of the Asian Efficiency audience and did a check-in: we asked what kind of impact the global pandemic we're going through is having. As we suspected, a lot of us are struggling. Even if you ...
04.13.2020 3 Simple Ways to Bounce Back From Failure and Thrive (TPS295) Let’s talk about failure. It is easy to be productive when everything is going well, but what happens when you have a setback? Even a small failure can be discouraging and get you in a rut. What can you do ...
04.06.2020 Q1 Goal Check-In: How We’re Doing, And How You Can Stay On Track With Yours (TPS294) The first quarter of the year is done — how are you doing on your yearly goals? Are you on track? Are you behind? Have you dropped some goals and added any new ones? Have you even made any goals ...
03.30.2020 How To Plan Your Perfect Week (TPS293) Do you ever get to the end of the week and realize that you haven’t made real progress on any of your goals and priorities? You see stuff on your todo list that didn’t get done. And then maybe you ...
03.23.2020 Our Controversial Productivity Beliefs (And Why They Work) (TPS292) I did a Google search for “productivity advice”, and it brought back 210,000,000 results. A lot of those results are giving the same advice over and over, and a lot of time we just accept it. Someone puts it in ...
03.19.2020 COVID-19: How To Be As Productive As Possible During Coronavirus Isolation (TPS291.5) As you know we’re in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. We thought it was our duty to help you stay productive throughout this period, and that’s why we put this bonus episode together at the last minute. The reality ...
03.16.2020 How To Design A More Focused and Productive Work Environment (TPS291) Whether you are working in an office or working from home, the environment you are in is either supporting or hurting your productivity - you just may not know it! This episode is about designing your environment. We don’t mean ...
03.09.2020 Have A Side Hustle? 5 Ways To Maximize Your Time, Energy, and Attention With a Job and a Freelance or Passion Project (TPS290) Today’s episode is about how you maintain a full-time job while starting and growing a side hustle. This could be a passion project, freelancing gig, or something else you want to start on the side while maintaining your full-time job. ...
03.02.2020 Work-Life Balance Is A Myth, But Here’s How To Be Better In Your Work and Personal Life Without Falling Apart (TPS289) One of the most common questions we get is: "Should I keep my work and personal tasks together? Or should I separate them? How about my email and calendar?" In this episode, we’re going to tackle this controversial topic and ...
02.24.2020 The 12 Week Year: The “Secret Sauce” To Achieving Your Goals Every Quarter (TPS288) Do you have trouble achieving your goals? Even if you've meticulously planned out your year, taking those plans and translating them into accomplishments doesn't always work out the way you hope. A powerful framework for achieving your goals is called ...
02.17.2020 Is Evernote Dying? Nope! Here Are Our Favorite Tips and How We Use It Now (TPS287) If you’ve looked at productivity apps at all, you will have come across Evernote. Some people think about Evernote as a “note-taking app”, but it is so much more than that. It’s where you can remember everything that is important, ...

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