Hour 36: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less

Hour 36: Las Vegas

The Productivity Show podcast - Episode 102: An interview with Greg McKeown author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less

Website and iTunes Link: http://www.asianefficiency.com/podcast/

Youtube Video with Greg McKeown: http://bit.ly/1qSx22n 

Todays Tip: People fail because they’re kept busy do unessential tasks, instead of focusing on what is essential. They’ll have a massive ‘To Do List’ and they’ll tick off a pile of tasks each day, but fail to do any task that helps achieve their goals. 

So here’s the answer: Write a list of everything that needs to be done, and then pick the top three personal tasks and the top three business tasks and then work on them first before doing anything else. Checking your emails are not that important. 

Everyday you should be doing a task that leads you closer to your long term goals, and in this podcast Greg McKeown wasn’t just talking about five or ten year goals, he went on to say that you should have a 100 year goal. What legacy do you want to leave behind. 

And finally, after identifying your top three essential tasks, pick the most important and work on that first before moving onto number two. 

Side note: We’ve all heard about multitasking and it’s been proven that we are less efficient when we try to multitask. Staying focused on one task at a time will be far more productive. 

STAY FOCUSED DAILY AND ACHIEVE BIG THINGS

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin

www.tysonfranklin.com

Hour 35 - Talking Service with Kate Edwards

Hour 35: Today’s podcast: Marketing Over Coffee - Talking Service With Kate Edwards. Kate Edwards is the author of Hello, And Every Little Thing That Matters. 

iTune link: http://apple.co/1VDTvhC

Direct website link: http://bit.ly/29wb30i

Link to Kate Edwards webpage: http://www.kateedwardsconsulting.com/

Today’s tip: Anyone can provide an average service…it’s not really that hard. Simply going through the motions is not really providing a great service. 

What makes a great service experience is enthusiasm and excitement, so if you’re about to employ someone in the service industry, these two qualities will result in positive outcomes for both you and the customer. 

People with enthusiasm and excited will work harder and longer than someone without these qualities. 

Here’s my question to you: Do you have enthusiasm in your day to day activities?

BE AWESOME

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin

www.tysonfranklin.com

Hour 34 - 4 Keys To Reaching High Performance

Hour 34:

Arizona Day 6: Today I was joined by Dave M Frees and we listened to The Charged Life with Brendon Burchard called The 4 Keys To Reaching High Performance. 

Podcast link: http://brendon.com/blog/highperformance/

This recording is slightly longer than usual, but when you have the opportunity to listen to Dave share his wisdom you never want to cut it short. 

Tip # 1: It’s so important to look after your psychology, your mindset and how you think. You’ve got to find ways to keep optimistic and stay motivated every day, however at last weekends Business Black Ops, guest speaker Jocko Willink explained that motivation is fine, but being disciplined is far more important. 

Tip # 2: Brendon mention that you can only go so far yourself in achieving high performance, but eventually you have to persuade people, and influence them to help you adopt your dreams…HOWEVER (Now Dave shares what he really thinks). 

Persuasion and influence and two entirely different things. Persuasion is hard, you’ve got to get people looking at things in a new way and think about things from a new perspective, but to be influential is ultimately what you want. 

To be persuasive you really want to know what they want. Their wants and needs, and what their dreams are. Find the intersection and deliver to them what they really want and need and this builds trust. 

When you use persuasion and you build trust, that’s when you can really influence someone. They will automatically come to you knowing you will honestly tell them what they need to know. 

So yes become a more skilled persuader, but really focus on becoming more influential. 

For future reference here are the links to Dave Frees events:

Business Black Ops: http://www.businessblackops.com/

Success Technologies: http://www.successtechnologies.com/

Hour 33 - Enjoying Your Work

HOUR 33:

Arizona Day 5: - Today’s podcast was the Being Happy Podcast with Andrew Matthews, Episode 2, titled Enjoying Your Work. 

In this podcast Andrew discussed five really good tips about how to enjoy your work more, but the one tip that resonated with me the most and the one I would like to share is this: All work can be boring and repetitive, no matter what the occupation. 

If you’re an Accountant, a Doctor, or a Brick Layer, there will be moments when your job and day to day routine is repetitive and in some cases boring, however it’s how you approach your work that’s more important. It’s your attitude! 

If you approach every workday with a good attitude and try and be the best you can be, regardless of the task, you will never be bored. Yes, it may be repetitive, but it will never be boring if you’re constantly pushing yourself. 

Here’s the link to this particular episode: http://bit.ly/2cOJltB

PUSH YOURSELF EVERYDAY TO BE BETTER

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin 

www.tysonfranklin.com

Hour 32 - Accountability & Branding

HOUR 32: Arizona Day 4: Podcast - The #AskGaryVee Show Episode 229:

As usual Gary had dozens of tips and business hacks, but today Tom Foster and I are going to share just two. 

Tip # 1: Accountability - Gary called out one of his team members, Randy, and  told him that when he says he wants something linked to an episode, he wants it linked to an episode. Obviously Randy wasn’t hearing Gary, but now Gary has made him very accountable, so I don’t think he will ever make this error again. 

As promised here is the podcast link:

iTunes: http://apple.co/1QxEM7m

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2dKqDFB

Tip # 2: The first question on the show was about the branding. What has built his empire, was it the brand of the company or was it Gary Vee himself, and the answer is it’s both. 

Your brand is you! What attracts people to Gary is his personality, his interests, what he talks about and what he does, and that’s what you have to do in your marketing as well. Your brand it critical, it’s your name and what you do.

BE YOURSELF

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin

www.tysonfranklin.com

365 Hour 31

HOUR 31:

Arizona Day 3: Today’s podcast was The Charged Life With Brendon Burchard - 5 Ways To Overcome Adversity. 

I was lucky to  have two friends join me for the walk today, Tom Foster and Brian Slater and to be in the video they also had to listen to the podcast and share their takeaway points, so today you’re getting three massive takeaways. 

# 1: When you have adversity in your life, ask for help. Don’t wait until the shit has hits the fan or the problem has becomes too big to fix. The earlier you ask for help, the earlier you’re going to solve the problem. 

# 2: Keep things in perspective. You know from experience that you’ve had adversity in your past and it’s always turned out okay, so it’s just a cycle. You’ve got to learn to live with the cycles. 

# 3: With all adversity there’s something you’re going to learn and you’re going to come out stronger. Keep belief in yourself and take little action steps everyday and eventually you will overcome it. In the end you will be better for the struggle. 

iTune podcast link: http://apple.co/1vVsKJF

Brendon Burchard’s website: brendon.com

Link to video blog and Libsyn: http://brendon.com/blog/overcome-adversity/

BE STRONG

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin

www.tysonfranklin.com

Hour 30: The Jocko Willink Podcast Ep 32

HOUR 30: Arizona Day 2: Today I listen to the Jocko Willing Podcast Episode 32: Titled Privileged People, Leading Women Teams, Discipline Equals Financial Freedom, Does Micro Managing Ever Work?

Podcast link: http://apple.co/26B5wLE 

In this Jocko discussed a guy who was a black belt in Jujitsu who demoted himself from a black belt to a purple belt. He did this because after taking a long period off from training he didn’t feel he was worthy of holding that title because he had lost his skills. 

After a period of time and hard training he did promote himself back to black belt, but here’s the point I took away…what skills are you losing because your failing to maintain them. 

Doesn’t matter if you’re in IT, Medicine or any other profession, if you want to maintain your skills and knowledge you ‘must’ stay on a path of constant learning, retraining and keeping your skills up to date. 

USE IT OR LOSE IT

Dr. Tyson E. Franklin

www.tysonfranklin.com