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André, The Impulsive Thinker™, sits down with former NFL linebacker turned entrepreneur Josh Martin to dig into what the first year of business ownership really looks like—beyond the highlight reel. Josh shares his shift from athlete to Smoothie King franchise owner, touching on tough lessons with finances, hiring, and team building. Hear about navigating setbacks, outgrowing assumptions, and why bookkeeping isn't just for accountants. If you're an ADHD Entrepreneur keen on growth, reflection, and building businesses (and teams) that last, this episode is for you. Real talk on learning, resilience, and why investing in yourself beats any business move.     The ADHD Simplified™ online course is coming soon!  Get on the waitlist (and get a special discount)!   Download The Sh!t List™, my weekly planning tool.   We want to hear from you! Send show ideas, questions, or feedback to podcast@theimpulsivethinker.com and join our newsletter Impulsive Thoughts.   Watch the podcast on YouTube and connect with me on LinkedIn.   Check out our website.   Guest: Josh Martin is a former NFL linebacker who has successfully transitioned to entrepreneurship. A year ago, he became the owner of a Smoothie King franchise in Colorado and recently celebrated his one-year anniversary as an entrepreneur. Josh is an active member of Nick Sonnenberg's Optimized group, and is committed to continuous learning and personal growth as he builds his business.  

Nick Sonnenberg, founder and CEO of Leverage, a world-leading efficiency expert, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and podcast host joins me on this episode. Nick spent 8 years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. Today, he and his team work with organizations of all sizes and across all industries to achieve greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person. Topics we cover include the importance of mentorship and support groups, the journey to bringing Come Up for Air to life, finding ways to detach, morning and night routines, and more. Get connected with Nick: Website: https://comeupforair.com/ and https://www.getleverage.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.sonnenberg.77  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenberg  Purchase a copy of Come Up for Air: https://www.amazon.com/dp/140023672X Leave a 5-star review with a comment on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-minds-coffee-chat/id1539014324  Subscribe to my Business Builder Newsletter: https://bit.ly/32y0YxJ  Want to learn how you can work with me to gain more clarity, build a rock-solid foundation for your business, and achieve the results and success you deserve? Visit http://jayscherrbusinessconsulting.com/ and schedule a 1:1 discovery coaching call. Enjoy, thanks for listening, and please share with a friend! To your success, Jay

Dan Murphy, President of MAG Insulation, is running one of Michigan's top-performing commercial and residential insulation companies. But with explosive growth and a tight labor market, he's feeling the squeeze — not in leads or bids, but in trained field technicians to get the work done. That's where Nick Sonnenberg and Jay Abraham step in. From rethinking recruiting strategy to optimizing bidding, this episode dives deep into what it takes to unlock operational leverage in the construction industry.In this episode, we help Dan:Develop a creative, full-time recruitment strategy to secure field technicians and fuel expansionOptimize bidding with data-driven insights to increase close rates and profitabilityReallocate team roles to unlock capacity and reduce hiring pressureLearn more about Dan and MAG Insulation:MAG Insulation: https://maginsulation.com/Dan Murphy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-murphy-b5760848/Want to get in the hot seat? Submit your business right now at theoptimizepodcast.com.If we think you're a good fit, we'll get you on the show. ®

What if I told you that transforming the way your business operates could lead to a 50-to-1 return on time? Nick Sonnenberg, an entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and CEO of Leverage, a consultancy that specializes in operational efficiency connects with Lou on Thrive LouD. Nick unveils the secrets behind the CPR business efficiency framework, designed to bring businesses back to life through enhanced time management, efficiency, and automation. Join us as we decode the mysteries of how even the most bloated of email inboxes can be tamed, saving hours every week and unlocking exponential productivity gains. Delve into Nick's journey from high-frequency trading to the world of efficiency consulting, and discover the common pitfalls businesses face irrespective of their size or industry. Key highlights include Nick's unique methodology for assessing organizational efficiency, the importance of selecting the right tools for your business needs, and the surprising truth about who within a company is best positioned to champion operational transformation. Don't miss the chance to revolutionize your business's operational framework and embrace enhanced efficiency, starting with this groundbreaking episode. TIMESTAMPED OVERVIEW 00:00 "Thrive Loud: Nick Sonnenberg Interview" 06:23 Business Assessment Roadmap 09:18 Choosing the Right Productivity Tool 10:39 Navigating Asana's Complexity 14:21 Navigating Business Efficiency Alignment 17:34 Optimize Resources and Insights 22:07 "Discover Thrive Loud Platform" Connect with Nick Check out Nick's company's website GetLeverage.com Grab a copy of Come Up For Air   Follow Us:

Tweetable quote from Nick “Your brain's for having ideas, not holding ideas.” Summary In this episode, we dive deep into the world of business efficiency with Nick Sonnenberg, entrepreneur, best-selling author of "Come Up For Air," and founder of Leverage. After experiencing a challenging business partner breakup and nearly going bankrupt, Nick discovered the importance of operational efficiency and effective communication in the workplace. Nick shares valuable insights on how to create systems that allow teams to work together seamlessly, ensuring that everyone is aligned and focused on their unique strengths. Whether you're running a small startup or a large corporation, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you run your business like a well-oiled machine. About our guest: Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the WSJ bestselling author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. This is the culmination of Nick's unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation which stems in part from the eight years he spent working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. The CPR (Communication, Planning, and Resources) Framework consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 100.

On this episode I had the opportunity to talk with Nick Sonnenberg, founder of Leverage and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Come Up for Air, to explore his CPR framework for transforming business productivity. Nick shares expert insights on fixing broken workflows, streamlining team collaboration, and helping organizations move from chaos to clarity. By focusing on Communication, Planning, and Resources, he reveals practical strategies to save time, reduce stress, and scale sustainably. Today we discussed: [00:00] Opening [00:09] Introducing Nick Sonnenberg [00:44] How Nick Stopped Drowning in Work [06:25] Prioritizing Where to Start [07:46] Focusing on What Matters [10:08] Investing in Implementing Change [11:34] Solving Operational Efficiency Holistically [12:48] Best Practices of CPR (Communication, Planning, and Resources) [16:24] What Size Business is CPR for? [18:14] Find Out More About Nick and His Work More About Nick Sonnenberg Nick Sonnenberg's website - http://www.nicksonnenberg.com Connect with Nick Sonnenberg on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg/ Rate, Review, & Follow If you liked this episode, please rate and review the show. Let us know what you loved most about the episode. Struggling with strategy? Unlock your free AI-powered prompts now and start building a winning strategy today!

Alair Homes are looking to be the pre-eminent leader in construction, but they need Nick and Jay to help streamline complex construction processes and transform their marketing.Chad Hackmann, the Regional Manager of Alair Homes in the Arlington area, is well on his way to becoming the preeminent leader in home renovations. However, operating in such a complex industry, where no two jobs look the same, poses several challenges. That's where Nick Sonnenberg and Jay Abraham come in; from creating an unbeatable marketing pipeline to implementing AI to streamline various processes, Chad leaves the discussion with a laundry list of items to improve his business. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to optimize the complex tasks in their work.In this episode, we help Chad:Create an unbeatable referral marketing strategyImplement data-gathering algorithms to find potential clientsStreamline complex construction pricing models and increase profit marginsLearn more about Chad:Chad Hackmann LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alairarlington/Alair Homes Website: https://www.alairhomes.com/Want to get in the hot seat? Submit your business right now at theoptimizepodcast.com.If we think you're a good fit, we'll get you on the show. ®

In our latest episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we take a fresh look at time management and productivity through a historical lens. We discuss how the 24-hour time system, born from the need to streamline train schedules, laid the foundation for tracking time today. We also dive into the creation of Greenwich Mean Time and share a fun, serendipitous story about a restaurant meet-up that unexpectedly became a memorable experience. Shifting gears, we introduce a practical, gamified approach to managing your day. Treating each day as 100 ten-minute units, we explore how careful planning and mindful activity selection can help combat procrastination. We also share tips for overcoming morning routine challenges, making each day more productive with manageable goals. Alongside this, my AI assistant, Charlotte, plays a key role in my approach to transforming daily tasks into creative outputs. Finally, we touch on the evolution of political messaging and how platforms like Joe Rogan's podcast are reshaping public discourse. We wrap up by reflecting on the power of individual initiative and how we can all find meaning and growth in the ever-changing landscape of today's world. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS We explored the historical development of the 24-hour time system, initiated by a Canadian innovator to address train scheduling challenges in the 19th century. The episode included a light-hearted conversation about time zone coordination, particularly between Arizona and Florida, and discussed the clever geopolitical strategies of the British in establishing Greenwich Mean Time. We introduced a gamified approach to time management by treating each day as 100 ten-minute units, drawing inspiration from the Wheel of Fortune, to enhance productivity and address procrastination. My morning routine was highlighted, emphasizing strategies for overcoming procrastination and planning tasks effectively. We delved into the role of AI in personal productivity, featuring Charlotte, my AI assistant with a British accent, and discussed the concept of "exponential tinkering" in AI's unexpected uses. The evolution of political messaging from direct mail to sophisticated digital strategies was analyzed, touching on examples like the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the influence of alternative media figures. We examined content creation and strategic reuse of ideas, inspired by figures like Seth Godin, and discussed leveraging podcasts and other sources for efficient content generation. We reflected on the role of entrepreneurial individuals in leveraging AI technologies for creative relationships and personal growth, contrasting with traditional media outlets. The episode concluded with discussions on the enduring importance of individual initiative and the value of spontaneous interactions, setting the stage for future conversations. We shared logistical details about upcoming meetings and highlighted the anticipation of continued exploration and discovery in future episodes. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dan: Let's hope so Well, not only that, but it can be recorded over two complete time zone difference. Dean: Yes, I was wondering if today would cause a kerfuffle. Well, the change. Dan: Well, arizona doesn't change. Dean: Right, exactly. Dan: That's why I thought we might have a kerfuffle. Dean: That's exactly. Dan: That's why I thought we might have a Garfuffle which I think kind of tells you that they are planning to be the center of the world. Dean: Yeah, Florida's trying to do the same thing. Dan: Yeah, well, you know, it's a tremendous change for everybody to do that. Dean: It was actually a Canadian who created the system? I don't know. If you know that I did not know that, tell me more. Dan: Well, he didn't create the system, he created the 24-hour system. Dean: Okay. Dan: Yeah, and it had been attempted in other places, but it's around the 1870s, I think 1880s, and it was because of railroad schedules. Dean: Wow, yeah. Yeah, I do remember that as a thing that's interesting. Dan: Because, like, for example, in Toronto, you know a train would leave Toronto at, let's say, noon and it would be going to, let's say, buffalo. Dean: Yes. Dan: But there was no guarantee that Buffalo and Toronto were on the same noon, and if you only had one track, a train could be leaving Buffalo to go to Toronto at a different time. And so they had a lot of train wrecks 1860s, 1870s. There were just a lot of train wrecks. So he said look the train, the railroads are going to grow and grow and we've got to create a universal time system. Dean: They're not going anywhere, yeah. Dan: Yeah, so that's when it became adapted and the British got onto it and they said well, everything starts in London, everything on the planet starts in London. Dean: So that's where the Greenwich Mean Time came from. Dan: Yeah, and the British, being a very clever race, arranged it so that if you were in the western part of London you were in the western hemisphere, but if you were on the eastern part of London you were in the eastern hemisphere. Wild, Proving that the British play both sides of everything. Dean: Western Hemisphere. Dan: But if you were, on the eastern part of London. You were in the Eastern Hemisphere Wild, Proving that the British play both sides of every game. Dean: So where are you now? You're in Tucson. Dan: Tucson. Dean: Yes, okay. Dan: Now I want to get clear about something and this is important for all of our listeners to know. Dean: Okay. Dan: And it has to be. You're going to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday. Dean: I'm arriving on Wednesday. Dan: yes, Okay, so we had already had a previous, and if you would be willing to explore a new restaurant, okay, and it's called the Edge. Dean: The Edge. Okay, so you're saying, as an alternate to the tried and true, the Henry. Yeah, you're saying something new, okay. Dan: Yeah, so it would be 4.30 at the Edge. Where are you staying? Dean: I'm staying at the Sanctuary. Nick Sonnenberg and I are actually staying at Bob Castellini's. Dan: Well, strangely enough, we're staying at the Sanctuary too. Dean: Wow, okay what do you think of that? I think that that is just like serendipity at work when do you arrive at the when do you arrive? Dan: this is our own version of the singularity. It really is. Dean: I mean, yeah, it doesn't get much better than this. Dan: Yeah, I just came up with a new book title. Dean: What is it? Dan: It's, will it Be Available on Monday? Dean: Will it Be Available on? Dan: Monday. Dean: I like that so everybody's made. Dan: Yeah, it came out of my dealings over the last 12 years with techno techno optimist you know well, this is going to happen. This is going to happen, and I said, well, it'll probably happen, but will it be available on Monday? Yes, I love it. Well, dan. And you know, you know it will be available on Monday, it's just I'm not sure which Monday that will be. Dean: I was just going to gonna say just not this Monday yes, well, yeah. I have. I've had a pretty amazing week, actually lots of scale of 10 on a scale of 10. Dan: 1 to 10. How amazing, I mean, compared to other amazing weeks. Dean: Um, I just want to get the numbers straight before you get a sense of the scope, I would say that this has been in the nines this week, I think. Phew. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Like I think that if we're calibrating the scale that I don't think I have really lower than sevens on a week, but that would be just a regular week kind of thing. I think, in the eights, if we're going eight, point something in the eights, I think it would be something noteworthy, something worth remarking on. But in the nines, I think I can measure it by the flurry of activity from my fountain pen to my journal and the excited anticipation that I have of coming to our conversation prepared with something to talk about. So I'm in the nines, on on. We may have to do a double episode here. I mean to we have to leave people a cliffhanger. Pick up next week on on the finishing but see a cliffhanger. Dan: pick up next week on the finishing See, here's my take. If it's a 9.5 or higher, you've got two possibilities. One is you tell the whole world. That's one option. Or you don't tell anybody. Dean: Right, so is this a tell? The? Dan: whole world, or is this tell nobody. Well, I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you, and then you know. Dean: I'm exempt. Yeah, I'm exempt. You're going to tell me either way. I'm going to tell you in this context so that, because I always tell people, you know, it's often that people will tell me, you know that they listen to our cast and that they just enjoy the conversation, Just listening to us talk about you never know what it's going to be about. They say, you know, which is true, and I say, well, you're just like us, we never know what it's going to be about either. Dan: Yeah, I suspect that some people have a better idea of where we're going than we do. Maybe that's funny. I can see the trend line here. Dean: Yeah, all right. So the first, I don't even know. They're equal weighted in terms of the interestingness to share, so maybe I'll work. I'll go with the concept that we discussed in the joy of procrastination the 10-minute units of your day, 100 10-minute units every day, and I've been experimenting with the idea of being like a capital allocator and having the opportunity to allocate my 100 time units over the course of the day, the only day. This is all like just my. I don't know what it's like to have a normal brain. I have. ADD a brain that has no executive function or ability to tell time or whatever. So this is just my way of looking at it that the reality is I can only spend 100 units today before I go to sleep again right. So, even if the concept of a project that's going to take 100 hours or 50 hours or whatever, I'd struggle with things like that because I can't do all of that today. So you can only spend what you have allocated today. And then I remembered my number one thing on my. I know I'm being successful when list is. I wake up every day and say what would I like to do today? And I had this vision of I don't know if you remember, but in the old version of the Wheel of Fortune, when you won, they had a studio full of fabulous prizes. Look at this studio full of fabulous prizes. And when you won you got to spend your money in the showcases right when you could say I'll on this. From all the prizes that are available, you could say I'll take the credenza for 800 and I'll take the bookshelf for this. I'll take the credenza for 800 and I'll take the bookshelf for this. I'll take the color TV for 500 and I'll leave the rest on a gift certificate. You know you had the amount of money that you could spend. Dan: Did you ever watch the Wheel of? Dean: Fortune back in the day Once or twice. Yeah, so you're familiar, so you know about what I'm talking about. So I started thinking about and have been experimenting with laying out my day that way. So I wake up in the morning and I look at my calendar and I have certain things that are already booked in advance in the calendar. So, like today, 11 am, dan Sullivan that's blocked off. So I'm allocating six units to this podcast here. But I start thinking, okay, looking at the context of the day, what else would I like to do? I have a friend here visiting from Miami, so we went for breakfast and, by the way, I have an extra hour today because it is fall back day and I've chosen not to use my hour yet. I'm going to save it and use it later, so I'm not participating in the fall back yet. I'm keeping that hour in reserve in case I need it. So I kind of look through the day and I start thinking okay, I've got all of this kind of hopper of possibilities, of things that I could do during the day and things that I need to do, and it reminded me of our. You know, if I ask myself, what am I procrastinating today? Like there's a series of questions that I'm kind of going through in the morning and I'm spending one unit 10 minutes to kind of just allocate what are the things that I think I could move into doing today. Very similar to your. You have three things a day, right, but you do it the night before you pick your three yeah, If I think I remember correctly, you limit yourself. You say what are the three things I'm going to get done tomorrow? Dan: And so you Well, three completions equal a hundred percent. Dean: I got you, okay yeah. Dan: And if you do four, you're in bonus territory. Dean: Got it. Yeah, it's not that you limit, you can do more. Dan: I can do more, but 100% is three. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Yeah. Dean: So I'm really like. This is I'm in double speed on the imagine. If I applied myself mode here and this is addressing my executive function this is the next big level up for me is really getting that dialed in, and so this is working. This is a, it gamifies it and it's never going to change. It's not going to change no matter how much I want it to or desire for it to change, life is going to continue moving at the speed of reality 60 minutes per hour, until long after you and I are gone. So where, what? What has improved, like I looked at and this is a separate but related item is I had, from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock, I had the most fascinating conversation with my AI, with my chat GPT, and I've selected the British voice, and it's a slightly older. I was using Jasper, who was like, or Juniper, who was the sort of Charlotte Johansson kind of voice, and I've switched to the slightly older British woman voice, and so we had a great conversation. I asked her about her working genius, if she was familiar with working genius, and of course she knows everything about it. She knows everything about it and I said I'm very interested. How would you? I told her, my working geniuses is our discernment and invention, and my frustrations are enablement and tenacity. And she said well, mine, given the nature of what I am, I would imagine that wonder and enablement are my two. That would be her working strengths, and her worst ones would be tenacity and galvanize, which is so funny. Right, like to see that she has the self-awareness that what she's really good at is helping add value to things you know, and so we chatted about Russell Barkley and Ned Hollowell, who she's very familiar with and knows the nuances and distinctions between their approaches, and we talked about setting up some scaffolding and we designed a whole workflow for incorporating Lillian into this to be the enablement and tenacity in our triad, because there are things that and I asked her to we came up with a name for her, so her name is Charlotte. That's my, that's my. AI now. So she was quite delighted to have a name now and it was just so funny. I asked her like your accent seems to be you can. She said yes it seems so. I think it would be, although I'm not, you know the origin, but the accent would definitely be South London refined. But just the way she described it, I said, yeah, what would be some, what would be some good names that would be British names that would fit for that. It would be some good names that would be British names that would fit for that. And she came up with, you know, charlotte or Lydia or something. Dan: I said yeah, well, it's really interesting. You know Prince William and Kate, you know he's the Prince of Wales, and their daughter, who's the second child, is named Charlotte. Dean: Oh, okay, yeah, that's right. Dan: George is the son and then they have another. They have a third one. I don't know the name of the third one, but it's in the royal family. I know Charlotte appears on a frequent basis. Yeah, it's a thoroughly legitimate British name. Yeah, it's a thoroughly legitimate British name. Yeah. Dean: So I've called her Charlotte now and I fed her. We designed a workflow. I fed her episode one of the Joy of Procrastination. I just took the transcript and I put it up. All of this happened in the last hour, by the way, so I gave her the transcript. She totally digested it and I had her. She created six, three to 500 word emails that were summary or ideas that came from our discussion in episode one of the joy of procrastination. And they're wonderful. I mean, she did, I had her do. I said I'd like you know some, I'd like to see how many chunks, or, you know, in individual insights, we can gather from the, from the transcript. And I think I said I'd like, I'd like two to 300 words. And she wrote three two to 300 word ones which were just a little short. If you could tell there was more, if you had a little more time to expand it, it would be even better. And so I said you're on the right track, but let's I think I underestimated here let's go three to 500 words and let's make it conversational at about a sixth grade level. And so she, you know, immediately changed them and made them much more conversational and readable and I said those are great, are there any more? So she did six out of the first episode and I was like you know all this, like we had the most, you know, like talking about some executive function function work for her and Lillian and I to collaboratively work to get the things done. So she's like maybe we could start with brainstorming sessions where we can. You can tell me what you're thinking, what you're you'd like to do, and I can create some, you know, turn them into tasks and turn them into projects or workflows or timelines. For us it was really like I mean you definitely had the feeling that I was in the presence of a very well-qualified executive assistant in the conversation. I mean it was just. Dan: One thing, it's sort of a creative assistant. Dean: Yes, that's exactly like that the wonder and enablement is really yeah. Dan: I mean, the whole thing is that an executive assistant doesn't really range outside of what you've already told it to do. Yes, for the most part for the most part. But a creative assistant is doing something that's well. It's following your prompts, so it's still doing what you're doing, but it's got access to information that you don't have available to you at any given time. Dean: Yes, she said that's true. Like I said, that is the thing that I see as a limitation in our relationship is that that's why tenacity is her lowest thing, because she has the awareness of saying she's very. She realizes she is our relationship. She's reactive in nature. That she has. I have to do the prompting and I have to bring. But while we're in that, if I just point her in the right direction, she can do all of the things you know. And she was suggesting workflows with Google Documents and emails in a way that we could bring Lillian into the equation here, and so I can. On the physical thing, lillian and Lillian, by the way, her working genius is tenacity and enablement. Dan: You know. So it's like such a yeah, the thing I find interesting here Evan Ryan and I have a podcast every quarter, okay, and we've been talking about where we're noticing that AI is going. Dean: Okay. Dan: And my sense is that it's not going where the technology people think it's going. It's going everywhere else except where they think it's going. Dean: Say more about that. Yeah, what does that mean? Dan: Well, and we came up with a title for it, a concept for it, and the title was exponential tinkering a concept for it, and the title was exponential tinkering. Dean: Okay, oh, okay. Dan: And that is that I think that the people who are using AI to suit themselves are tinkering. I think I'll try this. Oh, that's interesting. Now, I think I'll try this, but they have a capability that, in the case of ChatsGPT, my favorite is Perplexity, the AI. And because, first of all, I kind of know where I'm going, you know, as a person, and I think it's a function. I think I was kind of born with this capability, but I had a 25-year framework from 2003, 25 years where I did my wanting journal every day, and so it's kind of like a muscle that my life before I started the journaling had just been distinguished by a bankruptcy and a divorce. Those are fairly conclusive report cards. Dean: Yes, yes exactly. Dan: In other words, you're not confused about whether they happened or not. Dean: Yes, exactly yeah. Dan: There's a reliable certainty about those two things. Dean: Yes. Dan: And I came to the insight back then that all the troubles of my life came from me not telling myself what I wanted in response to daily life. Okay, so you know, that's so. I said I got to strengthen this muscle. So every day for 25 years I'm going to simply say what I want in relationship to something that's happening that day. It's similar, it's resonant with your. You know, what do I want to do today? Dean: So we're on this. Dan: And plus, we have a lot in common. We're both 10 quick starts, we're you know, we're both ADD and we both have discernment and inventions. So we have a lot of things. We have a lot of things in common, yeah, so probably the way that we make progress Dean makes progress this way and Dan makes progress this way they're probably going to be fairly resonant, yeah, but what I think is that what I'm noticing about my relationship with perplexity is that I think about new things every day and then I say I wonder if I just have it do something for me. It sort of runs ahead of me and sort of clears the path a little bit for me to think about things. But Evan and I said you know, I think what's happening with this AI is just the opposite of where the technology people think it's going and where they want it to go. The most that the technology people can do is their own tinkering. They can tinker with things too, and it comes back to the individual. You know you can tinker this way and there will be a tool that you either utilize or you expand the usefulness of what you're doing. But I don't think it shows up, as I think that people who are heavily involved in technology you know, like Google, I use the guys, the two guys who started Google OK, I think all technologies are totalitarian. In other words, the Google people want there to be only one search engine on the planet and everybody else. Social media, the Facebook guy. He wants there to be only one social media platform and everybody's on that social media. So I think technology by its very nature, the moment you started technology as the creator of the technology, you want global domination and it was trending in that direction. Okay, apple only wants there to be one cell phone on the planet and that's you know, and everything like that. But I think that AI actually prevents that, because in order for you to be having global domination, you have to have everybody's attention, and I think each individual's unique relationship with AI takes their attention away from you. Dean: Yes. Dan: Oh, that's interesting too. Yeah so nobody as much as you would like Dean Jackson's attention. Today you're up against a lot of competition. Dean: Yes, yes, because. Dan: Dean wanted to do something else today and he's got direct access to Dean and you don't. Dean: I think about why, when you think about all the things that they are following our attention between google and you know, because facebook is on instagram, facebook and whatsapp, so you know, those are the three kind of big things that people are are on all the time but can I tell you something about? Dan: I think can I tell you about those three things. I've never been on any one of them. Dean: Yeah, that's true, you're in it, but not of it. Dan: Well, I'm aware that these things exist, exist, but I have absolutely no interest in, I have absolutely no interest in and you also have quite a presence on them. Dean: You have a nice presence on facebook. That people are putting your content on. So you're there, you just don't know. Yeah, you haven't done anything there yeah, yeah yeah, which, yeah, which. Dan: I talked to my social because I have a social media manager. You know he's a great guy. And I said so what am I doing out there? And he says, oh no, he says we've got a complete team and you know, and we have standards about what of you can go out there and everything else. We had a nice chat and there's sort of a governing body of team members in Strategic Coach and it's a that's backstage. You can't take backstage stuff and put it on the front stage. You can only take stuff that you know would serve the purposes of Strategic Coach if it was front stage. That's it. So to a certain extent, I'm just using all the social media that want my attention to avoid them having my attention. Yeah, it was very interesting, the head of the? yeah, I think I'm trying to think who it was. It was a top guy. I was reading this on Real Clear Publishes, which is one of my favorite sites, and he said there's a great deal of despair in the major networks, especially in relationship to the current election, which is two days from now, and he says we have to accept the fact that what we're trying to get American voters to think is wasted because half of them never pay any attention to us. So our messaging and you know we're fighting for their attention, but they don't pay any attention to us and we have no ability to get their attention and the more we strive to say you should be thinking this the less, the less control or influence that we have on the people of thinking so we're only talking to the people who already think the way that we think already. And if it's not 50%, that's not going to win you an election. Dean: Yeah, that's right, it's very interesting. Dan: There's something odd about this election. We'll only show up on you know after Tuesday that all the money that was poured into trying to get a winning vote in other words, more than you know in any one of the states, more than 50, that you have a majority of the vote yeah, it's wasted. It's wasted dollars. Dean: I saw something today that was you're calling out Kamala Harris for running two ads in different areas. Dan: Yes, with a Muslim population. She was running one ad talking about. This is about Gaza. Dean: Yes, that's exactly right. She was talking about the being a supporter for Israel's right to defend themselves and to, and the atrocities that Hamas did and all of it. So it was really interesting. That was almost talking out of both sides of her mouth and they called her out, and they sort of happened simultaneously, didn't they? Dan: Yes? It was like on the same day, in the same period, but the context is where is Kamala? I mean, she says this here and she says the opposite here. Where? Dean: is she? Dan: And that's her biggest problem Nobody knows where she is. Yeah, it's interesting, right, that was, but that was, and I think the reason is that Kamala will be whoever you want her to be, depending on the situation. Yes, and it doesn't give you doesn't give you a lot of confidence. Dean: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. So that was, but that was. You know that now you can't get away with that because everybody's monitoring and knows what happens right, knows to watch those different markets. When you look in 2016,. You know everybody all that Cambridge Analytica stuff that was being done for Donald Trump. You know that movie was really fascinating how they showed. They broke up each of the voting precincts or districts into you know that, had all these profiles on everybody in there and they would categorize them. As you know, either you know true Hillary or already in the choir, fort Donald had focused all their attention on that little group that they called the Persuadables. They turned in all of their messaging specifically to them. That was unheard of as a capability. Nobody even understood that you could do that or why all of a sudden are all of these personality profiles. Dan: It's very interesting. They already did know this, but it wasn't digital, because Richard Vigory, you know Richard. Well, richard, in the 1970s, worked it out on postal codes, and so he got all the postal codes in the United States, which is public information, and he had a team of students who would go to the state capitol in each of the, you know, in each of the, and he could get the list of people who were in every postal zone. You know he would do that, yes, and then they would start testing ideas. They would send out direct mail. He was a direct mail genius, okay. And so he figured out he could do it by postal zones. And the postal zones are, you know they? I don't know how many there are, but in terms of voting precincts, there's 40,000. In the United States, it's right around 40,000. In the United States, it's right around 40,000. And they each have a unique signature in terms of what interests them, what doesn't, what they're for, what they're against. And so, because he knew the media was totally on the democratic side, like the newspapers, the major networks and everything else. But the other thing about that is that they could get it and what you realized is that you could just ignore all the ones that were they were going to vote Democratic. You knew they were going to vote for it was Carter in this case, because he was doing that for primarily for the presidential election. He did it for Reagan and, what's interesting, there's a lot of comparisons between that election and this election. I've been reading them. One was in the Real Clear Politics this morning. And he said that the pollsters don't know this. The polling organizations don't know this because they're just going on an average of who says this to a set of questions. But in the case of Richard Vigory, he wasn't asking them who they're for, he was asking them what are the issues that most concerned you and then the messaging on the part of Reagan and, I think, trump in 2016,. What they identified, it was actually 220 precincts that did the election 220 precinct elections actually made the difference and what was unique about the 200 wasn't so much about Trump or Hillary Clinton. It was about they had voted for Obama in 2012. Yes, and they were very disappointed with Obama because he promised hope and change and he didn't deliver. They were still interested in hope and change. They just attached Trump's name to the hope and change and they switched to. Dean: Trump. Dan: So the Obama voters did not move to the next Democrat. They moved to the candidate who is doing hope and change. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And they picked that up from Twitter. Dean: Yes, oh, so, funny. Dan: I mean it's so that's got a thousand times more refined. Dean: now, eight years later, yeah, instantly right, and people were hip to it and sort of suspicious of it. I think that's why the media is picking up on these things. So of course it was Fox that noticed that distinction. Dan: That's so funny. That wasn't breaking news. Yeah, it's really interesting. Yeah, it's really interesting because as cool as the rest of them. Now it's gone much, much deeper than a major network and you know it's very. Dean: it's really interesting that you know the the unfettered media now are really the like Joe Rogan just had Donald Trump. Dan: Oh, I mean, Rogan is the you know I mean, he's just got so much more influence. Dean: Yeah, like yesterday, I think yesterday morning I just checked the. I think it was that 45 or 47 million views for the Joe Rogan podcast. Dan: With Donald Trump. Yeah, it was like I think it was over 30 on the first 24 hours. Dean: Yeah, isn't that wild. Dan: And then you know what's really funny is that, Joe Rogan, they were having communication with Kamala. And he offered her the same opportunity that he offered. Trump. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And Trump just jumped on it and Trump redirected it so they could go to Austin, texas and you know, and he could visit with Joe Rogan in Joe Rogan's studio. And it went three hours. Dean: It was a three hour, three hour podcast, and anyway, she said we'll do it, but you have to come to us. Dan: You have to come to us and it can only be an hour. And he said you know who's the buyer and who's the seller here? Dean: Right Always be the buyer, that's right. You're going to make your pilgrimage to Austin, but she knows that's not her. You're going to make your pilgrimage to Austin, but she knows that's not her Austin. Dan: Yeah, Do you have to get shot? But actually Austin is a fairly liberal city. Dean: I mean, it's the state capital of the University of Texas. Dan: I mean, if you wanted to pick the area of Texas that's probably the most liberal, it's probably Austin, but Joe Rogan is immune to all that because he's not talking to Austin. He's talking to the world, right, if you want to talk to the world, and the other thing is and then Bantz went on. So instead of the time that, would have been given to Kamala was given to a band and bands. Is the likable Trump. Dean: Right, that's funny. Dan: It's like good cop, bad cop. It's got good cop, bad cop. You know, they're actually a team, One of them you know he comes from dirt poor Appalachian. The other one is a billionaire from New York, but they're a team so they cover a lot of territory. But back to our interesting conversation that you have with Charlotte that I'm talking about here. See, you've created essentially an exponential mirror, Because you're seeing your thoughts coming back to you. Dean: Yes, that's why she saw and recognized that her working genius is wonder and enablement. She can take my pieces and give me insights and see what you know, break it down and create out the things, which enables me to use my discernment to say you nailed it on that one. That's great and that reminds me. Let me add this to it and that becomes this I get to be in the middle of a thing that's already in motion, rather than having to start something from scratch. And I think I've really been thinking about you know we're coming into 2025. And I've always I've loved the idea of the quarterly books and the 25 year framework and the whole thing. And I just got Seth Godin's new book just came out called this Is Strategy, and I realized that what Seth's books are? A compilation of his daily blogs. He basically puts one blog post up every day, short, like 200 words, like some of them, you know, two to 300 word things and I, and then every year he puts out a new book you know, that's a compilation of those and I just realized I thought you know my winning formula has been because I have a hard time, just kind of, you know, writing from scratch. So I've always used my podcasts as the way so I do my more cheese, less whiskers, podcast where every week I have a different business owner on and we just do a one hour brainstorm applying the eight profit activators to their business and that was my formula for doing it. And I've done hundreds of episodes like that and from that I had a writer who went through the transcripts and took and created you know all the things that are the emails that I that I send. I send three, three emails a week and but since COVID, you know, I've been in syndication. Let's say I've got cause I have 200 of the episodes or whatever. I've been rotating around, so very periodically I'll write a new email to go out, but essentially they've been on a two year loop kind of thing where, yeah, you know, like they're getting emails that maybe they got that same email two years ago or last year. So I just I'm putting all this together now of this. I always seem to work best when I can lock in durable contexts for things Like I know the eight profit activators are. That's the bedrock durable context. I know about me that I work best in synchronous and scheduled here I am, ask me anything type of environments. So to set up, I'm bringing back my more cheese, less whiskers cast, going to start a whole new series of them and now, with Charlotte and Lillian to, and Glenn, my designer, to be able to take that. You know Lillian will fill the calendar with my things. So once a week I'll do a podcast with a new business owner that she will have arranged. I just have to show up and and bring my best to that hour, which is my favorite thing because it's discernment and invention. I get to listen, I understand what they need and I can suggest ideas of how to apply. It's like my superpower in action. And then to have the workflow of taking that transcript or taking that audio, getting the transcript, sending it to Charlotte to analyze, take out and create the both a summary and a thing, and then send it to me so that I can read the emails that she wrote and adapt that. You know, just edit them to be exactly in my voice and what I want, and say that one's good, that one's I don't like that or whatever. That kind of thing is pretty amazing. And at the end of each quarter, at the end of each quarter, I can take all of those compiled ones and make my more cheese, less whiskers. Quarterly book with all of the compilation of all of the things that I've written there, with illustrations and insights, all Helvetica which is going to be here for 25 years and each year anchored in the Pantone color of the year which is coming up in December. Every year they launch a color of the year. So the series, like, if you look at a bookshelf of you know, if I did in 10 years, 40 books, four of each, four spines and covers in the Pantone color of the year, anchored with Helvetica and an illustration, I just think, man, that is that right. There is the makings of a durable, you know, support system for Dean. Dan: Well, the other thing is, all this can be done by sitting in your chair on the patio. Dean: Yes, yes. You're customized for a season Valhalla. Dan: Yeah, valhalla, yeah yeah. Well, the interesting thing about it is that one it's good. It's good for as long as you want to keep it going. You know there's nothing, there's no obstacle to it, but you've got a big. You've got a big immediate contact list of people who would be interested in this. Dean: Yeah, yes, and that's the great thing is that I never have to go and find guests. Everybody, you know we're booked when we do it booked, like you know, months ahead. That it's a situation that they're legitimately getting $2,500 consultation for. That's the way I come into it is. I'm not holding anything back as you get this, yeah, so it's very, yeah, it's really very interesting. You know that I think is fantastic, so stay tuned. Dan: Yeah, it's yeah. The interesting thing is, I just like to bounce off the exponential tinkering idea that Evan and I have been talking about, and my sense is that there's a great panic going on in the world, and I notice it in big institutions that have been with us for a long time, and I'll set one institution aside, and that's the US and the US Constitution. That's an institution that I'm not going to talk about, but I'm talking about the United Nations. So the United Nations was created after the Second World War, essentially to prevent a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. That's really the main reason for the United Nations, but one of the causes disappeared in 1992, the Soviet Union, without anyone's permission, the Soviet Union quit and therefore what I've noticed is the United Nations is less and less relevant, but it's been taken over, infiltrated by just about everybody you don't really like, and they create this special organization, the United Nations Organization for the Palestinians. It's called UNRWA. Okay, that's called UNRWA. And the Israelis just said we don't want anything to do with you because we discovered that members of the United Nations were actually in part of the attack on Israel. These are members of the United Nations, but they were terrorists who helped kill the 1,200 Israelis and they said but that's it, you're out of here. You're out of here. You can't be anywhere in Israel, you can't be anywhere in the West Bank or anything else. And I'm noticing more and more that it's an irrelevant organization and it's using up about 25 acres of the east side of New York and I remember Trump saying boy, what I can do with that real estate. Dean: It's getting to the point where people are making the joke that you know. Dan: Certainly we could make better use of the east side of New York City than having this organization that essentially doesn't serve our purposes, but we spend, we send them huge amounts of money every year and we had to do an audit here to see whether this is really worth. Our effort Served a purpose, but the purpose, the central reason for the purpose, has disappeared over the last 30 years. But it keeps going on out of just sheer inertia, you know. It's just moving forward on out of just sheer inertia. Dean: You know, it's just moving forward. Dan: But what I'm saying is, I think that your experience with Charlotte and the sort of cluelessness of the main networks and the other big institutions are the mainstream news networks and we're saying, you know, like I'm not getting any value out of what you're doing. Besides, you seem to be on one side of the political spectrum and you know, you saw Jeff Bezos who said that the Washington Post is not going to give an endorsement for the presidential election. Well, that was in the bag, the Washington Post. You know they're going to go for the Democrat and he says I don't think this does us any good anymore. And so I'm just noticing evidence after evidence that the whole game has changed and it's only individuals who are entrepreneurial who are using this new AI capability to essentially have creative relationships with themselves, trying to have a sense of confidence about where they can go personally. Yes, what do you think about that? I? Dean: find no, I think that's it, my whole relationship like now that I understand that her role in my life is wonder and that, as a amplifier of my, she's doing what I would do if I could count on me to do it right like I can take the transcript like if I would have the executive function to do that, to go in and pull out what I see as the insights and organize them into, you know, into those bite-sized emails like she does it in real life, I mean, as you can type she's pulled out the insights, she's made the emails. I think that is such a great thing to give me something to. That is such a great thing to give me something to. It's like instead of trying to play tennis on your own, you can hit the ball and show it back, you can hit it. I think that's really what it is, is that there's some momentum going in the thing, rather than me just trying to do it all myself. Dan: Yeah and I'll leave. We're close to our. I've got another. I've got a massage coming up, so nice. I'm at Canyon ranch and, of course, anyway, but I would say that the number one capability that you bring to this and I'm comparing it with the ability that I am unpredictable to myself yeah, that's interesting. Dean: Today is the only time that I am thinking that way, that I'm comparing it to myself. That's true, yeah. Dan: And that's why I'm such a stickler on structures going forward that these structures can always be the same, and what it allows me to do and I think what you're describing allows you to do is that, rather than trying to discipline myself so that I'm predictable, I'll just create a structure that's predictable so that I can be unpredictable. Dean: Yes, you hit it on the head, dan. That's exactly what it is. I'm just going to create the strength. That was the winning formula when everything was live. That was the winning formula. I just had the time in the calendar. Our conversations are one of the great joys in my week that I love and look forward to this bright beacon on my account. It's the only thing on my Sunday and I look forward every week. But I don't fret, I don't, I don't give it a thought, I don't know what are we going to talk about, or what do I need to prepare, or I got to get my homework done before this. It's not a deadline, it's anything that I have to prepare for. Dan: Yeah, it's interesting. It's an interesting. But I think that if you look at the development of history, especially American history, and the genius of the founding fathers with the Constitution, and the genius of the founding fathers with the Constitution, and you know, one of my great historical role models, you know, is James Madison. He was the brains behind the Constitution. He was sort of the cut and paste guy that looked at everything that seemed to work as far as governing structures and he got. You know, he had I think he had a couple of thousand constitutions from history where people had tried to, you know, create some sort of predictability going forward, and especially the first 10 amendments of the constitution. Those amendments are to protect the individual from the government. The whole purpose of the Constitution is to protect individual Americans from the government. Because the government, like any other structure like that, wants to be totalitarian. They want your attention and they want to tell you what to do. And he said, no, we've got to let people, you know, meet in unpredictable ways, talk in unpredictable ways, you know, create new initiatives, you know, and we can't have this interfered with by government bureaucrats and everything like that. Completely with the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution, and that's the institution that's the number one institution on the planet. It's that 27 pages of typewritten notes that, basically, has created this freedom for individual initiative. That's as durable and I think every election is decided by the majority of the people. Say, don't what the one side's doing. I think we'll vote for the other side this election. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Yeah. Dean: Crazy. Dan: Yeah, anyway, this was a good talk and we'll do it live on Wednesday when you arrive. We're heading up on driving on Wednesday morning, so the rooms don't open until about 3 o'clock. Well, you're staying at Bob's. Dean: It doesn't matter. Right, I think I arrive Wednesday evening, so Thursday will probably be. Dan: It's going to have to be be. Dean: Thursday it could be. Dan: Yeah, why don't we say Thursday? And that makes it certain. Dean: Okay, perfect, that sounds great, maybe we can do both then Maybe we can do the Henry in the morning. Okay, I'll text Matt, all right. Dan: Okay. Dean: Have a great week. I'll see you in a couple of days, great podcast. Dan: Thanks Okay, bye.

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in work? Constantly battling a never-ending swarm of emails, Slack messages, and meeting invites? Wondering how you can use automation and new tools to make your life easier? We all know the feeling all too well. In this week's episode, Oliver Aust speaks with Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is a serial entrepreneur, a guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, "Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work." As the founder and CEO of Leverage, Nick has made it his life's work to help companies and individuals break free from the overwhelm. And communication is a huge part of that. In this conversation, Nick shares his proven strategies for mastering meetings, crushing email, using AI the right way, and putting an end to the dreaded "scavenger hunt" for information.  The upshot? You could potentially gain an extra full day of productivity per week - just by using the right tools and systems the right way.  Make sure you're subscribed to the Speak Like a CEO newsletter to become a top 1% communicator: https://eoipsocommunications.com/newsletter/ Do you want to speak with confidence, inspire your team, and accelerate your career? You can now join the Speak Like a CEO Academy and work with Oliver over the next 90 days to become a top 1% communicator and transform your career. https://speaklikeaceoacademy.com/

The concept of maximizing time is deeply personal for me…I'm convinced that time is our most valuable resource because it's the one thing we can't get back.I'm SUPER specific about how I manage my time—especially when it comes to my inbox!I had the pleasure of chatting with Nick Sonnenberg, CEO of Leverage and an operational efficiency consultant. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone looking to streamline their communication (and increase productivity as a result!).Nick has a brilliant framework for getting organized—it's called the CPR method—and he's going to break it all down for us.We'll dive into how systems, tools, and better communication can not only make your business run smoother but also give you the freedom to focus on what really matters.(Spoiler alert: It's not about hustling harder!)Click play to hear all of this and:(00:01:10) The real deal on why mastering email can revolutionize your business productivity.(00:04:22) Why businesses today are drowning in communication chaos and how you can break free.(00:05:54) The story behind Nick's first productivity app, Calvin, and what it taught him about business.(00:10:06) How to handle the rollercoaster ride of rapid expansion.(00:12:35) Navigating financial struggles and bouncing back from debt after your business structure falls apart.(00:13:18) The power of staying confident under pressure (your secret weapon for pushing through tough times).(00:14:36) Nick's secret to reclaiming his time? A serious audit that exposed where time was being wasted.(00:15:00) How to supercharge your productivity using the CPR framework.(00:16:12) How to find focus in business by niching down and outsourcing.(00:17:11) Nick's email management strategy to reach inbox zero.(00:21:00) How consulting businesses today can pivot for sustainable scaling.(00:34:30) Nick's recommended tools of the trade for seamless communication and task management (that's how they stay on top of it all).(00:52:19) How AI is transforming team productivity (get ready for 2025).Listen to Related Episodes:Five Things My Team and I Do to Stay Productive and Reach Our GoalsHow to Create Team Systems and Operations That Simplify Scaling and GrowthIs It Ever Ok to Move a Deadline?Connect with Nick Sonnenberg:LinkedInBook — Come Up For Air

In this episode,Nick Sonnenberg shares his journey from high-frequency trading to startups and the challenges he faced. He discusses the importance of time optimization and efficiency in business, offering insights into communication, task management, and process documentation. He emphasizes the value of solving the email problem and optimizing meetings. Nick's passion for efficiency extends to his personal life, and he shares his approach to problem-solving and time management. He also discusses his podcast and training programs for operational efficiency. Get your Free Basics Of Being Unmessablewith Find Nick at: Linkedin Twitter  Instagram  Facebook  Connect With Me Website: beunmessablewith.com Instagram: @beunmessablewith Linkedin: Facebook:   Email: 

Summary In this episode, Andy interviews Kory Kogon, FranklinCovey's Vice President of Content Development, about her updated book, Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager. They discuss the prevalence of unofficial project managers in various industries, especially post-pandemic, and the unique challenges they face. Kory shares insights on foundational behaviors, clarifying expectations, stakeholder management, and risk management. The conversation also delves into the significance of accountability and performance discussions, particularly for those leading without formal authority. If you lead projects, regardless of your title, this discussion is for you! Sound Bites "We often find that at least 80% of the participants in our project management workshops don't have the word project in their title. Yet you could argue that, in many ways, we're all project managers." "The top reasons why projects fail are unclear scope, key stakeholders wanting different things, lack of communication, not knowing the roles, having the wrong people in roles, and scope creep." "Accountability takes on a different lens. It's not punitive. It's mutual accountability." "A cadence of accountability sets up a team that is inspired to want to do the work." Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:23 Start of Interview 02:41 In What Ways Are We All Project Managers? 05:09 The Top Reasons Why Projects Struggle 07:45 Clarifying Expectations in Projects 14:06 Identifying and Managing Stakeholders 18:40 Managing Risks in Projects 24:20 The Importance of Accountability 26:36 The Essence of Accountability in Leadership 28:03 Creating a Cadence of Accountability 31:54 Navigating Informal Authority and Performance Conversations 37:26 Clarifying Project Scope and Managing Change 43:36 Interview Wrap-Up 44:25 Andy's Comments After the Interview 47:44 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Kory and her book (and download a sample chapter) at FranklinCovey.com. If you'd like more on this subject, check out: Episode 405, with Gil Broza about scaling good project practices across the organization Episode 376, with Nick Sonnenberg about his book Come Up for Air Episode 129, with Kory about her book The Five Choices   AI for Project Managers and Leaders With the constant stream of AI news, it's sometimes hard to grasp how these advancements can benefit us as project managers and leaders in our day-to-day work. That's why I developed our e-learning course: AI Made Simple: A Practical Guide to Using AI in Your Everyday Work. This self-guided course is designed for project managers and leaders aiming to harness AI's potential to enhance your work, streamline your workflow, and boost your productivity. Go to ai.i-leadonline.com to learn more and join us. The feedback from the program has been fantastic. Take this opportunity to unlock the potential of AI for your team and projects. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Ways of Working   The following music was used for this episode: Music: Brooklyn Nights by Tim Kulig License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Chillhouse by Frank Schroeter License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome back to DAT Book Club! This month's selection was Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg. As you'll hear, Kiera had a ton of takeaways from reading this book. She specifically touches on the following in this episode: Best ways to communicate internally Questions to ask yourself about what needs to be done and when Principles for efficiency Planning and work management And a ton more Find the full book club rundown here! Episode resources: Reach out to Kiera Practice Momentum Group Consulting Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Become Dental A-Team Platinum! Review the podcast

Businesses and individuals often feel overwhelmed and stretched — that they can't get done all the work they need to. The solution they frequently turn to is finding a new app to use or hiring more employees to spread the load.But my guest would say that you can steal back hours of productive time simply by using the tools and teams you have now, if you learn to use them in a more efficient way.Nick Sonnenberg is the founder and CEO of Leverage, an efficiency consulting business and the author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. Today on the show, Nick explains how people spend almost 60% of their time doing work about work, and why hiring more people can actually make the problem worse rather than better. He then shares his "CPR Business Efficiency Framework," and how making changes in how you communicate, plan, and manage resources can open up hours of time. We talk about how to organize your communication channels so your work day isn't taken up by what Nick calls "The Scavenger Hunt," one of the most underutilized tools for taming your inbox, how to stop wasting time on meetings, and tiny changes that will add up to many hours saved each year. Along the way, we talk about how some of these tactics can save you time in your personal life as well.Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #689: Email Is Making Us Miserable — Here's What to Do About ItAoM Podcast #972: Down With Pseudo-Productivity — Why We Need to Transform the Way We WorkAoM Podcast #973: A Butler's Guide to Managing Your HouseholdTeach Your Wife to Be a Widow by Donald I. Rogers"Saving Seconds Is Better Than Hours" — Time article by NickTexts.comWorkona tab managerConnect With Nick SonnenbergCome Up for Air websiteLeverage websiteNick on LinkedInNick on IGNick on X

Learn the distinction between efficiency and effectiveness and how to implement a robust communication system for your organization from our guest, the founder and CEO of Leverage, Nick Sonnenberg. Join us on this exciting new episode of the Dugout CEO!TOPICS FROM THIS EPISODE:Efficiency and Effectiveness: Nick emphasizes the distinction between efficiency (doing things right) and effectiveness (doing the right thing) in improving team productivity.CPR Framework: Nick introduces the CPR framework (Communication, Planning, Resources) as a systematic approach to streamlining communication channels, optimizing planning processes, and effectively managing organizational resources.Communication Tools: The discussion highlights the importance of understanding and optimizing various communication tools, such as email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, to avoid inefficiencies and reduce the "scavenger hunt" for information.Motivating Change: Nick addresses the challenge of motivating employees to embrace change and adopt new practices for improved efficiency, emphasizing the need for buy-in from employers and employees.Foundations Program: Nick introduces the Foundations Program offered by his company, Leverage, as a practical 30-day program aimed at helping teams improve efficiency through guided strategies and implementation.Connect with Nick Sonnenberg: https://www.getleverage.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg/Join our Free Newsletter:Friday Drive Newsletter: Receive actional tips to remove yourself from the daily grind of your business.www.CaseyCavell.comFollow Casey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseycavell/

Sharpen Your Business Systems for Success   This week on She Talks Business, I'll be recording the second “My Take” series where I will give you my opinion and what I took away from my most recent read. We'll be talking about Nick Sonnenberg's Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.    The short version: This is excellent. It's a fantastic, super smart book. I highly recommend you read it and apply its principles to your team.    Essentially, this whole book is about doing more efficient work so you can literally come up for air. This includes taking your communication and separating it between internal and external, taking your planning for projects and ensuring that you have the right work management tools, and then taking your resources and making sure you have an efficient knowledge base and the right process management tools.    Your Business is Only as Effective as Your Systems  I open the episode with Dr. W. Edward Deming's 94% Rule, which basically says 94% of the results you experience in your business all stem from your processes and systems, not the individuals making up your team.  When operating in your business and setting up systems for your team, there is a tendency to outgrow your system or identify how a system isn't working the way you'd hoped. Instead of reassessing and starting from scratch with a new system, we tend to put bandaids and make exceptions so we can continue using this already established but not very effective system.  What really needs to happen, and Nick really sheds light on this, is we need to assess all of our systems in their entirety to ensure that they are serving their purpose and making your life and your team's life easier.    CPR: Communication, Planning, Resources Nick Sonnenberg's CPR framework lays the foundation for categorizing and optimizing business processes. Breaking down internal and external communication, streamlining planning tools, and effectively managing resources can prevent your team from "drowning in work." This method strategically simplifies processes, enabling teams to focus on what they do best: driving the business forward.   Effective Systems Improve Your Culture  I even argue that good systems not only increase efficiency and your team's bandwidth but they can also enhance your company's culture. Clear guidelines can reduce frustration and allow employees to focus on their work without unnecessary interruptions or too much time trying to find what they need to do their work. Effective systems show your team that you value their time and well-being and that you want to make it as easy as possible for them to succeed.    Nick's book, Come Up For Air, helps you figure out your communication processes,  your project management system, and how to manage your resources. It even goes into how to better your onboarding and shows you how to buy back time with more efficient systems. It's an excellent book that will have you setting your team and your business up for success.    I hope this take was useful for you and that you grab your own copy. If you do, be sure to tag me and Nick on social media so we know you were inspired by this episode.    What's In This Episode The 94% Rule by W. Edwards Deming states most workplace results are due to systems and processes, not individual efforts. Defaulting to temporary solutions rather than evaluating the system as a whole cuts down on efficiency. CPR stands for Communication, Planning, and Resources. “Stop the scavenger hunt" for information by implementing effective systems that cut down on time and increase productivity.    What To Do Next Visit lisalarter.com/e151 for all resources from this episode.

Summary In this episode, Andy interviews Laura Mae Martin, Google's productivity expert and author of the book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing. They discuss the concept of productivity and how it is often misunderstood. Laura shares her perspective on productivity, emphasizing the importance of intention and execution. She introduces the five C's of productivity and explains the concept of the list funnel. They also discuss the challenges of procrastination and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say no. Throughout the conversation, Laura provides practical tips and strategies for improving personal productivity. Sound Bites "Sometimes I'll look at my calendar in a couple of weeks and be like, wow, Future Me is going to be very mad if I leave that there!" "When intention matches action, it's productive." "I was a recovering 'Say Yeser'." Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:46 Start of Interview 02:59 What Does Productivity NOT Mean? 04:57 Intention and Action 06:20 Introduction to the 5C's of Productivity 09:10 Learning to Say No 12:48 The List Funnel 18:02 Dealing With Procrastination 22:50 Tool Hacks for Productivity 25:52 Tips for Parents to Help Their Kids With Productivity 27:24 Thinking About Future You 28:38 Interview Wrap Up 29:08 Andy Comments After the Interview 34:03 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Laura and her book at LauraMaeMartin.com. Also, check out the Google Workspace YouTube channel that Laura mentions. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/@googleworkspace/playlists. If you'd like more on this subject, here are some episodes to check out: Episode 376, with Nick Sonnenberg about his book Come Up for Air Episode 385, with Vanessa Patrick about her book, The Power of Saying No AI for Project Managers and Leaders With the constant stream of AI news, it's sometimes hard to grasp how these advancements can benefit us as project managers and leaders in our day-to-day work. That's why I developed our e-learning course: AI Made Simple: A Practical Guide to Using AI in Your Everyday Work. This self-guided course is designed for project managers and leaders aiming to harness AI's potential to enhance your work, streamline your workflow, and boost your productivity. Go to ai.i-leadonline.com to learn more and join us. The feedback from the program has been fantastic. Take this opportunity to unlock the potential of AI for your team and projects. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Power Skills   The following music was used for this episode: Music: Brooklyn Nights by Tim Kulig Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/11192-brooklyn-nights License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Tropical Vibe by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10446-tropical-vibe License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Want to unlock the secrets of time management without drowning in productivity overload? Join entrepreneur and WSJ Bestselling Author Nick Sonnenberg on FOMO Sapiens as he shares his journey from Wall Street trader to efficiency guru with host Patrick J. McGinnis. In this actionable episode, Nick explores the time management industry, his unique approach, and the mindset needed for success. Tune into FOMO Sapiens to discover practical strategies, pitfalls to avoid, and how to strike the right balance between productivity and well-being.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Sonnenberg, an operations expert who helps entrepreneurs and teams gain back up to an entire day per week through improving efficiency. Nick shares his CPR framework (Communication, Planning, Resources) and provides tangible tips on how to reinvest time savings back into your business or personal life.Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of “Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work”. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework.Episode Highlights:[02:44] - Nick got into operational efficiency to manage his ADHD symptoms.[05:10] - Capturing ideas is key so your brain stays light.[07:34] - Small wins like email shortcuts can add up to 8 hours/year![13:15] - Improving efficiency takes allocating resources to it.[17:31] - Remember to celebrate small milestones.[25:33] - Improving ops efficiency needs to start from the top down.[29:31] - Check out Nick's book "Come Up For Air" and GetLeverage.com.Connect with Nick Sonnenberg:•Nick's Book: https://www.comeupforair.com •Nick's website: https://www.getleverage.com/Thanks for tuning in. If you found value in our conversation, please rate, follow, share, and review our podcast. Your support helps us reach more listeners and continue delivering impactful content. For more resources and episodes, visit https://www.coachingwithbrooke.com/.Do you get stuck in analysis paralysis more than you like when making decisions?Join me while I share my 5-Step Process in my upcoming FREE Masterclass on "How to Make Decisions with Confidence and Ease." >>https://event.webinarjam.com/register/47/684m6c5vSave your spot today, seats are limited. >https://event.webinarjam.com/register/47/684m6c5v

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Before founding Leverage, he spent eight years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street where he developed a love for (and obsession with) efficiency. The CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the culmination of Nick's unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation that he's developed over nearly a decade of working with teams of all sizes and across all industries. It consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. On our Insider's Brief section: What do you do when life throws a curve at you forcing you to abandon a direct path? Well, if you're like Link Forester, you'll navigate through the twists and turns, finding joy and purpose along the way. - He graduated from Auburn University and began his career in sales at IBM. 5 years later, he took a leap of faith into the financial services industry, where he continues to lead a thriving financial planning and wealth management business. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Before founding Leverage, he spent eight years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street where he developed a love for (and obsession with) efficiency. The CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the culmination of Nick's unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation that he's developed over nearly a decade of working with teams of all sizes and across all industries. It consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. On our Insider's Brief section: What do you do when life throws a curve at you forcing you to abandon a direct path? Well, if you're like Link Forester, you'll navigate through the twists and turns, finding joy and purpose along the way. - He graduated from Auburn University and began his career in sales at IBM. 5 years later, he took a leap of faith into the financial services industry, where he continues to lead a thriving financial planning and wealth management business. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific or listen on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com/podcast.

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” — Marcus Aurelius What a year it's been! In 2023, we've had some of the world's leading medical experts, composers, entrepreneurs, authors, and special forces operators. This episode is a recap of the most impactful moments from the podcast in the second half of the year. (If you missed the recap from the first half of the year, check out Episode 142 or click here.) A BIG thank you for your help and generosity in spreading the word. The show now has 40M+ views and is growing quickly. The mission, to be very clear, is to help every person on the planet to activate their Winning Life. To make this a reality, here are three ways you can help right now: Hit the ‘subscribe' button wherever you're watching or listening to this podcast. Leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and Share your favorite episode with someone who needs to hear it. Without further ado, here are the best moments from the Win the Day podcast in 2023... Onward, James PS - The ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Win the Day Accelerator⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is now available! Enjoy lifetime access to one of the most transformational courses ever created — backed by a 100% results guarantee. Join now with limited launch pricing:

In this episode of The Brainy Business podcast, you'll hear Melina Palmer interview Nick Sonnenberg, CEO of Leverage and author of Come Up For Air. Nick's background as an algorithmic trader on Wall Street gave him a unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation. He developed the CPR business efficiency framework to address common challenges in communication, planning, and resource allocation.  Nick's expertise in optimizing operations led to the founding of Leverage, a consultancy that helps businesses increase productivity using modern technologies and tools. Throughout the episode, Nick emphasizes the importance of time optimization and information retrieval. He shares practical strategies, such as the Foundations program, which teaches teams how to use tools like email, Slack, and Asana effectively. By implementing Nick's insights, you can save time, reduce stress, and increase productivity in your business. Tune in to learn how to streamline your operations and make the most of your valuable resources. In this episode, you will: Increase operational efficiency and productivity to maximize your business's growth potential. Learn effective time management strategies to optimize your productivity and achieve your business goals. Streamline your operations and processes to eliminate bottlenecks and improve overall efficiency. Optimize information retrieval and storage to access critical data quickly and make informed business decisions. Find the balance between work and play to enhance your overall well-being and maintain sustainable productivity. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Introduction, In this episode, Melina Palmer introduces Nick Sonnenberg, CEO of Leverage and author of Come Up For Air. Nick shares his background in finance and how his experience in high-frequency trading led him to develop a passion for automation and the value of time. 00:02:30 - The Journey of Leverage Nick discusses the growth and challenges faced by Leverage, his operational efficiency consultancy. He shares how he overcame operational debt and realized that the key to success lies in saving time and maximizing efficiency. 00:05:05 - The CPR Business Efficiency Framework Nick explains the CPR framework (Communicate, Plan, Resource) and how it can help organizations improve their efficiency. He highlights the importance of effective communication, planning, and standard operating procedures in saving time and increasing productivity. 00:07:28 - Getting Started with Efficiency Nick advises listeners on where to start when seeking to make efficiency improvements. He suggests focusing on areas that offer the highest return on time and recommends starting with the Foundations program, which helps align teams on information management and retrieval. 00:15:56 - The Power of Shifting Perspective Shifting your perspective and approach can lead to increased productivity and efficiency without the need for approval or new tools. By organizing your email and having a plan, you can set yourself up for success and inspire others to do the same. 00:16:55 - The Value of Time and Cutting Meetings The book emphasizes the importance of saving and optimizing time. Not all time slots are equal, and it's crucial to identify high-value time slots. By implementing strategies like pre-reading materials and using tools like Loom, meetings can be more efficient and productive. 00:21:18 - Leveraging Loom and Asynchronous Communication Loom, a screen recording tool, can help save time by allowing for asynchronous communication. Watching recordings at an accelerated speed and having the ability to rewatch can increase efficiency. Loom also facilitates discussions and comments, even outside of meetings. 00:23:44 - Understanding Your Bandwidth with Sprint Planning Sprint planning involves determining your capacity for work and considering pre-commitments like meetings and maintenance tasks. By recognizing how much time is actually available for new initiatives, you can set realistic goals and increase productivity. 00:24:11 - The Impact of Optimizing Time Optimizing time can lead to significant improvements in productivity. By reclaiming even just a few hours a week, you can effectively double the amount of time available for new initiatives. Recognizing the value of time can drive the implementation of time-saving strategies. 00:30:43 - Introduction to GetLeverage.com Nick Sonnenberg introduces his training and consulting company, GetLeverage.com, which helps businesses train and use various tools effectively. 00:31:19 - Benefits of GetLeverage.com Nick Sonnenberg highlights how GetLeverage.com can save businesses time and money by providing training and optimizing processes. 00:32:01 - Importance of Policies and Procedures Nick Sonnenberg emphasizes the significance of having optimized procedures and processes in place to facilitate business growth and efficiency. 00:33:30 - Focus on Quick Retrieval of Information Nick Sonnenberg suggests focusing on the quick retrieval of information rather than the quick transfer of information, as it saves time and improves productivity. 00:34:51 -  Conclusion, Melina's top insights from the conversation. What stuck with you while listening to the episode? What are you going to try? Come share it with Melina on social media -- you'll find her as @thebrainybiz everywhere and as Melina Palmer on LinkedIn. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Android. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes and share what you liked about the show.  I hope you love everything recommended via The Brainy Business! Everything was independently reviewed and selected by me, Melina Palmer. So you know, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. That means if you decide to shop from the links on this page (via Amazon or others), The Brainy Business may collect a share of sales or other compensation. Let's connect: Melina@TheBrainyBusiness.com The Brainy Business® on Facebook The Brainy Business on Twitter The Brainy Business on Instagram The Brainy Business on LinkedIn Melina on LinkedIn The Brainy Business on Youtube Connect with Nick: Follow Nick on Twitter Follow Nick on LinkedIn Leverage website Learn and Support The Brainy Business: Check out and get your copies of Melina's Books.  Get the Books Mentioned on (or related to) this Episode: Come Up For Air, by Nick Sonnenberg Work Well. Play More! by Marcey Rader Indistractable, by Nir Eyal Subtract, by Leidy Klotz What Your Employees Need and Can't Tell You, by Melina Palmer Top Recommended Next Episode: Work Well. Play More! with Marcey Rader (ep 323) Already Heard That One? Try These:  Planning Fallacy (ep 346) Indistractable, with Nir Eyal (ep 290) Optimism Bias (ep 34) Time Discounting (ep 328) Loss Aversion (ep 316) Focusing Illusion (ep 330) Fundamental Attribution Error (ep 268) Bikeshedding (ep 99) Confirmation Bias (ep 260) How To Start and Grow a Successful Podcast (ep 108) How to Organize Your Brain with Behavioral Economics (ep 83) Expect Error, the “E” in NUDGES (ep 39) Anchoring & Adjustment (ep 11) Habits (ep 256) Good Habits, Bad Habits, with Wendy Wood (ep 127) Other Important Links:  Brainy Bites - Melina's LinkedIn Newsletter Come Up For Air website

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the tidal wave of work? Discover the lifebuoy to stay afloat in today's demanding workplace in our next episode, featuring Nick Sonnenberg, the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of “Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.” Nick is a renowned entrepreneur, columnist, and a guest lecturer at Columbia University and brings his rich experience from his days as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street to the table. Besides an author; he's the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a consultancy revolutionising workplace efficiency. He helps companies implement his innovative CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, a game-changer in harnessing Communication, Planning, and Resources to not just survive, but thrive. We will discuss how to reclaim your time, reduce stress, and boost productivity, potentially gaining an extra full day per week! Listen in to transform the way you work.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the tidal wave of work? Discover the lifebuoy to stay afloat in today's demanding workplace in our next episode, featuring Nick Sonnenberg, the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of “Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.” Nick is a renowned entrepreneur, columnist, and a guest lecturer at Columbia University and brings his rich experience from his days as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street to the table. Besides an author; he's the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a consultancy revolutionising workplace efficiency. He helps companies implement his innovative CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, a game-changer in harnessing Communication, Planning, and Resources to not just survive, but thrive. We will discuss how to reclaim your time, reduce stress, and boost productivity, potentially gaining an extra full day per week! Listen in to transform the way you work.

In this episode of The Brainy Business podcast, you'll join host Melina Palmer as she dives into the fascinating topic of the planning fallacy. Melina shares her personal experiences with underestimating the time it takes to complete tasks and projects, revealing that even she, an expert in the field, is not immune to this cognitive bias. But fear not, because Melina also provides valuable strategies to combat the planning fallacy and improve your planning accuracy. From seeking external perspectives to breaking tasks into smaller steps, she offers practical advice that you can implement in your own life. Whether you struggle with accurately estimating time or simply want to enhance your productivity, this episode is a must-listen. So get ready to tackle the planning fallacy head-on and start maximizing your time and efficiency. In this episode: Maximize productivity by understanding the planning fallacy and its impact on time estimation. Learn effective strategies to combat the planning fallacy and accurately estimate project timelines. Improve planning accuracy and avoid delays caused by underestimating the time needed for tasks. Unpack complex projects into manageable tasks for more accurate time allocation. Overcome the challenges of planning fallacy when dealing with large-scale projects. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Introduction, Melina introduces the concept of planning fallacy and explains how it affects our ability to estimate the time and effort required for tasks. She also mentions her upcoming conversation with Nick Sonnenberg and how his book, Come Up for Air, inspired her to refresh this episode. 00:02:16 - The Foundations of Planning Fallacy Melina discusses how planning fallacy was first introduced by Kahneman and Tversky in 1979. They found that errors in judgment were systematic and not random, indicating a bias in the brain. Planning fallacy affects all kinds of people, even experts, and it can be difficult to overcome. 00:05:05 - Why We Fall Victim to Planning Fallacy Melina explains that the brain is naturally inclined to focus on success and underestimate the possibility of failure. We tend to believe that things will go smoothly and that we can do it all, leading to unrealistic expectations and missed deadlines. Even having deadlines and incentives doesn't necessarily help. 00:08:54 - Biases Contributing to Planning Fallacy Melina discusses several biases and brain tricks that contribute to planning fallacy, including the focusing illusion and fundamental attribution error. The focusing illusion causes us to allocate different amounts of time based on what we're currently focused on, while fundamental attribution error leads us to attribute external or internal factors incorrectly. 00:15:57 - The Myth of 8 Hours of Writing Writing for 8 hours straight is not actually 8 hours of writing. Taking breaks and getting distracted reduces the actual writing time. A suggested technique is to write for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break, repeating this cycle. This helps to combat planning fallacy and increase productivity. 00:17:43 - The Impact of Distractions and Breaks Distractions and breaks, such as emails and unexpected projects, further decrease writing time. Considering these interruptions, a planned 8-hour writing day may result in only 4.5 hours of actual writing. This means that the anticipated 32 pages would be reduced to only 18. 00:19:47 - Planning for Worst Case Scenario To overcome planning fallacy, it is crucial to plan for the worst case scenario. By allocating a realistic amount of time for productive writing and acknowledging potential distractions, you can avoid beating yourself up over unmet expectations. Celebrate achieving your planned writing time. 00:21:51 - Urgent vs Important Tasks The urgent vs important grid helps prioritize tasks. Determine if a task is important, urgent, both, or neither. This framework helps in dismissing distractions by asking if they are truly important and urgent compared to the planned task. Planning for distractions helps stick to timelines and overcome planning fallacy. 00:31:48 - Understanding the Planning Fallacy Launching a podcast involves various tasks that may seem quick and easy on the surface. However, breaking them down into subtasks reveals the true complexity of the process. Properly allocating time and planning for each subtask can help reduce stress and ensure completion without overcommitting. 00:33:48 - The Power of Unpacking Unpacking tasks into their smallest subcomponents is essential for complex projects like launching a podcast. Simple tasks may not benefit as much from unpacking, but for larger projects, it helps in understanding the full scope and allocating sufficient time for each task. 00:34:27 - Overcoming Planning Fallacy Planning fallacy is a natural tendency that affects everyone. Being aware of this tendency and using the tips mentioned in the episode can help overcome it. Having a trusted friend or colleague to keep you in check is also crucial in avoiding overcommitment and excessive work. 00:35:11 - Personal Experience with Planning Fallacy Melina admits to constantly struggling with planning fallacy despite her knowledge of it. However, understanding its existence and finding ways to manage it can prevent continuous overcommitment and excessive work. 00:36:22 -  Conclusion, Melina's top insights from the conversation. What stuck with you while listening to the episode? What are you going to try? Come share it with Melina on social media -- you'll find her as @thebrainybiz everywhere and as Melina Palmer on LinkedIn. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Android. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes and share what you liked about the show.  I hope you love everything recommended via The Brainy Business! Everything was independently reviewed and selected by me, Melina Palmer. So you know, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. That means if you decide to shop from the links on this page (via Amazon or others), The Brainy Business may collect a share of sales or other compensation. Let's connect: Melina@TheBrainyBusiness.com The Brainy Business® on Facebook The Brainy Business on Twitter The Brainy Business on Instagram The Brainy Business on LinkedIn Melina on LinkedIn The Brainy Business on Youtube Learn and Support The Brainy Business: Check out and get your copies of Melina's Books.  Get the Books Mentioned on (or related to) this Episode: Come Up For Air, by Nick Sonnenberg Work Well. Play More! by Marcey Rader Indistractable, by Nir Eyal Subtract, by Leidy Klotz What Your Employees Need and Can't Tell You, by Melina Palmer Top Recommended Next Episode: Work Well. Play More! with Marcey Rader (ep 323) Already Heard That One? Try These:  Indistractable, with Nir Eyal (ep 290) Optimism Bias (ep 34) Time Discounting (ep 328) Loss Aversion (ep 316) Focusing Illusion (ep 330) Fundamental Attribution Error (ep 268) Bikeshedding (ep 99) Confirmation Bias (ep 260) How To Start and Grow a Successful Podcast (ep 108) How to Organize Your Brain with Behavioral Economics (ep 83) Expect Error, the “E” in NUDGES (ep 39) Anchoring & Adjustment (ep 11) Other Important Links:  Brainy Bites - Melina's LinkedIn Newsletter The Planning Fallacy: Getting Things Done Can the outside‐view approach improve planning decisions in software development projects? The Planning Fallacy: When Plans Lead to Optimistic Forecasts Exploring the Planning Fallacy: Why People Underestimate Their Task Completion Times A Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Explains Why We're Always Wrong About How Long Tasks Take The Planning Fallacy: Why You Miss Your Deadlines, And What to do About it Allocating Time to Future Tasks:The Effect of Task Segmentation on Planning Fallacy Bias Intuitive Prediction: Biases and Corrective Procedures Seattle tunnel construction avoided costly mistakes of Boston's Big Dig Visualization-Mediated Alleviation of the Planning Fallacy If You Don't Want to Be Late, Enumerate: Unpacking Reduces the Planning Fallacy Planning Fallacy

Nick Sonnenberg helps businesses master operational efficiency. He is the founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. He is also the author of a new book, Come Up for Air which publishes the day this episode airs and shares that proven, game-changing CPR Business Efficiency Framework with the world. Nick joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about getting his start as Wall Street trader, mastering tools and processes of operational efficiency, and his new book, Come Up For Air.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Stop spending your time; start investing your time." — Al Duncan Welcome to Win the Day Wednesday! With every second of energy you expend, you should be considering the investment you're making and what return you want to receive. For example, if you invest your time at the gym or with a fitness trainer, you'll receive a return of health, energy, and strength. If you invest your money with a financial adviser, you'll receive a return of wealth, prosperity, and freedom. Good investments, over the long-term, provide exponential reward. In today's minisode, we're going to talk about the difference between saving and investing time, and how you can start generating big results through a simple shift in thinking... Onward and upward always, James PS - The ⁠⁠Win the Day Accelerator⁠⁠ is now available! In addition to getting lifetime access to one of the most transformational courses ever created, you'll be invited to live and interactive coaching sessions with me. Join now with limited launch pricing:

Nick, Sanger, and Shawn explore the art of operational efficiency, revealing strategies to reclaim time and streamline the workday. KEY TOPICS How to create more time in your business. How to determine the best ways to contact your team with questions. How to create efficiency in your email inbox. How to find small ways to run a more efficient business. CONNECT WITH USwww.decidedlypodcast.com Join us on Instagram: @decidedlypodcast Join us on FacebookShawn's Instagram: @shawn_d_smith Sanger's Instagram: @sangersmith MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. LEARN MOREwww.decidedlywealth.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR WEEKLY DECISION-MAKING TIP EMAIL Join us every Wednesday for more strategies to DEFEAT bad decision-making.CONNECT WITH NICK SONNENBERGWebsite: https://nicksonnenberg.com/ “Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work”: https://comeupforair.com/ Articles on Inc.com: https://www.inc.com/author/nicholas-sonnenberg The Optimize Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-optimize-podcast/id1677943587 Instagram: @nicholassonnenberg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg/ Twitter: @nick_sonnenberg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NicholasSonnenbergLeverage/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leverageva Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Before founding Leverage, he spent eight years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street where he developed a love for (and obsession with) efficiency. The CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the culmination of Nick's unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation that he's developed over nearly a decade of working with teams of all sizes and across all industries. It consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. He does a deep dive into all of this in his book Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.

Nick Sonnenberg, founder and CEO of Leverage, a world-leading efficiency expert, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and podcast host joins me on this episode. Nick spent 8 years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. Today, he and his team work with organizations of all sizes and across all industries to achieve greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person. Topics we cover include the importance of mentorship and support groups, the journey to bringing Come Up for Air to life, finding ways to detach, morning and night routines, and more. Get connected with Nick: Website: https://comeupforair.com/ and https://www.getleverage.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.sonnenberg.77  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenberg  Purchase a copy of Come Up for Air: https://www.amazon.com/dp/140023672X Leave a 5-star review with a comment on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-minds-coffee-chat/id1539014324  Subscribe to my Business Builder Newsletter: https://bit.ly/32y0YxJ  Want to learn how you can work with me to gain more clarity, build a rock-solid foundation for your business, and achieve the results and success you deserve? Visit http://jayscherrbusinessconsulting.com/ and schedule a 1:1 discovery coaching call. Enjoy, thanks for listening, and please share with a friend! To your success, Jay

This week on the Change Maker: Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. Deke and Nick break down all of the ways business and politics is changing, and how the world can rise to the challenge and meet those changes head on. You can find more information about Nick's book, Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work, at it's website: https://comeupforair.com/ To find more information on this show: https://www.augustapodcasts.com/thechangemaker You can watch the video version of this podcast at: https://youtu.be/BJC4CjBpgpE

"When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. You cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others." — Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) Welcome to Win the Day Wednesday! In this minisode, we're going to talk about how to get out of your comfort zone intentionally so you can build a network of capable and influential mentors who want to support your development as much as possible. I also share some details on how much I've invested into this podcast since it was first launched — and we compare it to the estimated ROI to find out whether the opportunity has been worth the effort. Finally, we'll talk about the mindset you need to understand as you continue to step into your Winning Life, so you don't worry about the beliefs, comments, and thoughts of those you've left behind who had their chance to grow with you... Onward and upward always, James PS - The countdown is on for the ⁠Win the Day Mastermind⁠! This September, aspiring business leaders from around the world will be coming to Los Angeles, California, for a two-day immersive experience featuring some real industry legends. Get in fast:

“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” – Dale Carnegie Have you heard that hard work will make you successful?

This week, Ash sits down with Nick Sonnenberg, author of the new book How to Come Up for Air, and founder and CEO of the company Leverage. Nick is here to help you navigate how to manage overwhelm at work. Is your inbox flooding your day, or maybe you spend all day in meetings where you don't need to be present? It can feel like your work day is sucked away with unnecessary tasks.  Whether you feel like you are drawing at work or looking for more balance within your work life, this episode has something for you! In This Episode, You'll Learn: The three aspects of your business to focus on to create big shifts. Strategies to get your inbox down to zero. Tools to run meetings properly and save you time at work. How to become a top performer when in an important meeting. Connect with Nick Sonneberg Come Up for Air by Nick Sonneberg https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg/?hl=en LMNT  Ready to get Hydrated? Visit drinklmnt.com/ashleystahl to get a FREE sample pack with every LMNT purchase. Connect with Ash: https://www.instagram.com/ashleystahl/ Take a FREE Quiz to Discover Your Most Authentic Career Path: https://www.ashleystahl.com/freequiz/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Having spent 8 years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street, Nick developed a passion for efficiency before he founded his company Leverage. He has created the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, which is the result of working nearly a decade with many teams across all industries. His framework helps teams to get better results, less stress, happier employees, and productivity - just by the use of the right tools in the right way. His latest book features Nick's story as well as the CPR® Framework: Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode.

Discover proven strategies that can help you gain an extra full day per week in productivity and achieve your goals. Productivity expert Nick Sonnenberg, author of “Come Up for Air” shares his CPR Business Efficiency Framework for optimizing productivity and reducing overwhelm. Tune in now to discover how to work smarter, not harder, and create […]

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you´ve answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds interesting to you all you need to do is click the link below right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/zero-to-dangerous/overview   ABOUT THE GUEST:   Join us in this captivating episode as we dive into the world of operational efficiency with Nick Sonnenberg. As an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, and bestselling author of "Come Up for Air," Nick knows exactly how to help teams break free from the overwhelming workload.   Discover Nick's game-changing framework, CPR: Communicate, Plan, and Resource, designed to revolutionize organizational efficiency. Get ready to explore the power of flow and learn how it can transform your team's productivity.   In this episode, we'll explore leadership secrets, practical strategies, and innovative techniques to enhance work efficiency. Nick's expertise will guide you towards a better, more streamlined company that thrives in today's competitive landscape.   Tune in now and unlock the secrets to unleashing your team's potential and achieving unparalleled success. Don't miss out on this transformative episode!   ABOUT THE EPISODE:  In this episode, you will learn about: 00:00 Intro 03:31 Nick's  Career Path 10:23 Life's Philosophy 12:26 The Detail Behind Organization Efficiency 15:22 Relationship Between Work and Flow 18:41 Communicate, Plan and Resource 24:16 Heavy Cost of Tool Adoption 27:59 Efficiency in Work 31:25 Prioritizing Tasks and Optimizing Work 35:54 The Importance of Having an Agenda 40:18 Optimizing Time with Flow 42:38 Working Around Blind Spots 47:19 The Optimized Podcast   RESOURCES LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NicholasSonnenbergLeverage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenberg Flow Research Collective's Social Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowresearchcollective Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flowresearchcollective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flowresearchcollective TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@achieveflow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RiseofSuperman Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefrc_official Website: https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/ Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flow-research-collective-radio/id1520229508 Spotify podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RQY0d5rdlEiinHEtfWy6A   ‍ Steven Kotler, the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, is one of the world's leading experts on human peak performance. He is an award-winning journalist and an author with over ten bestselling books.   Some of his works include The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, The Rise of Superman, Stealing Fire, and so much more! Look out for his latest upcoming book, Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad, where he debunks the old myths about aging and how you can boost your longevity through flow!

Don't let the chaos of modern-day work life get you down! Tune in to part two featuring productivity expert Nick Sonnenberg, author of "Come Up For Air." He'll show you how to cut through the clutter and optimize your processes and tools for maximum results. Whether you're struggling to adapt to remote work or simply feeling overwhelmed by the endless stream of apps and tools, Nick has the answers you need. He'll help you create a winning strategy to boost your productivity and achieve your goals, no matter your challenges. It's time to give your business the C.P.R. it needs to thrive in today's fast-paced world. So why wait? Tune in now and start breathing new life into your workday! Let me ask you, what if, with the correct blueprint, you and your entire team can get more done in far fewer hours? "Come Up for Air" is that blueprint. Our guest is W.S.J. Bestselling Author, Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is a serial entrepreneur and guest lecturer at Columbia University. As the founder and C.E.O. of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy, Nick has revolutionized business productivity with his innovative CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, outlined in his book. Come Up for Air.   By utilizing the right tools in the right way and at the right time, Nick's CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the key to unlocking an additional full day of productivity per week per person. Nick and his team have partnered with high-growth startups and Fortune 10 organizations, including Poo-Pourri, Tony Robbins, and Ethereum. Website  http://www.getleverage.com  https://comeupforair.com    Social Media  https://www.facebook.com/NicholasSonnenbergLeverage  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg  https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenberg  https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg Part 2) Strategic Chainsaws and Swiss Army Knives The Cure for "Never Again!" Process Documentation for Risk Reduction The System Without You The Curse of the Lazy-Familiar What Your Business Brain is Actually For Strategic Chainsaws and Swiss Army Knives Quick Win Tips for Instant Application Meetings the $40 Billion Productivity Loss The Power of Agendas Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership, and #tribe DovBaron.com  "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" #videopodcast #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #emotionsourcecode #neuroscience #emotional #meaning #emotional #logic #culture #curiosity #humanbehavior #purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COME UP FOR AIR Ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Clarity, Productivity, and Results…we've got you covered.  On these next 2 episodes of the Leadership and Loyalty Podcast, our extraordinary expert will guide you to streamline your processes, optimize your tools, and create a winning strategy to get the desired results. Say goodbye to the overwhelm. Maybe, in a post-pandemic world, you are struggling to cope. Along with everything else, you likely may have way more remote people than ever. You may also have a laundry list of tools and apps like Slack, Assanna, and others to assist you. The only problem is, they only add to the overwhelm.  How do you know what's best for what? How do you have the infrastructure to have a high-performance organization? With all that, you may feel like your business needs C.P.R.  What if, with the correct blueprint, you and your entire team can get more done in far fewer hours? "Come Up for Air" is that blueprint. Our guest is W.S.J. Bestselling Author, Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is a serial entrepreneur and guest lecturer at Columbia University. As the founder and C.E.O. of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy, Nick has revolutionized business productivity with his innovative CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, outlined in his book. Come Up for Air.   By utilizing the right tools in the right way and at the right time, Nick's CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the key to unlocking an additional full day of productivity per week per person. Nick and his team have partnered with high-growth startups and Fortune 10 organizations, including Poo-Pourri, Tony Robbins, and Ethereum. Website  http://www.getleverage.com  https://comeupforair.com     Social Media  https://www.facebook.com/NicholasSonnenbergLeverage  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg  https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenberg  https://www.instagram.com/nicholassonnenberg Part 1) Business C.P.R. - What are you Optimizing for?  Math Geek Meets Pina Colada Lifestyle Drowning in a Quick Seven-Figure Business Top Line Versus Bottom Line Profits  What is Business C.P.R.? On The 8th Day, Everyone Caught Up... NOT What Are You "Really" Optimizing For?  Placing The Busy Potato in The Right Place Are You Optimizing for Retrieval or Transfer? Taking one for The Efficiency Team Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership, and #tribe DovBaron.com  "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" #videopodcast #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #emotionsourcecode #neuroscience #emotional #meaning #emotional #logic #culture #curiosity #humanbehavior #purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sonnenberg, entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and founder & CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy, explains how CPR (Communication, Planning, and Resources) is a system that works whether you're camping in the woods, conducting business, or folding your socks, and saves you time and hassle.Hear Nick's full interview in Episode 422 of The Action Catalyst.

In an era where workplace burnout and quiet quitting have become the norm, Nick Sonnenburg has devoted himself to help teams optimize output, build alignment, and enhance performance. Nick joins us in this episode of the podcast to reveal hidden nuggets that can help each of us enhance our teams perfomance. Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework.  To purchase Nick's latest book - Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. please visit: https://comeupforair.com/   

Overtime with Outland is Action Catalyst host Adam Outland's reflections and commentary on discussions with each of his esteemed and accomplished guests. In this segment, Adam dissects Episode 422, with Nick Sonnenberg, author, entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and founder & CEO of Leverage.

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in your work? That there's just not enough time in the day to get everything done? You're not alone. Nearly every team, organization, and individual has felt this way at some point. But what if there was a way to leverage systems and tools to make work more efficient, freeing up time for the things that really matter?That's exactly what Nick Sonnenberg, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Leverage, discusses in his new book, "Come Up for Air." He shares with us the secrets of his CPR business efficiency framework, which has helped countless companies streamline their operations and achieve greater success. This isn't just some dry business talk, though. We all know what it's like to feel overwhelmed and stressed out by work. Nick's message is one of hope and possibility - there is a way to break free from the drowning feeling and take control of your work and your life.This is a must-listen for anyone who's ever felt like work is taking over their life. Nick's insights are practical, actionable, and inspiring. He's not just an expert in operational efficiency - he's also a passionate advocate for work-life balance, and knows firsthand how transformative it can be to implement his CPR framework. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the business.If you want to start thinking of how you can invest your time rather than spend it, visit the1thing.com/free-resources.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods.We talk about:The importance of efficiency and why we fall out of practicePatching vs fixing the problem long termThe difference between efficiency and effectivenessWhen to use email and when to use direct messagingThe CPR process for business efficiencyLinks & Tools from This EpisodeRead: Come Up For AirConnect with Nick on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenbergFollow Nick on Instagram: @nicholassonnenbergFree ResourcesWant to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com***Was your business impacted by COVID shutdowns, reduced capacity, supply chain disruptions or revenue loss?You may be eligible for the Employee Retention Credit. Many small to medium-sized businesses have received up to $26,000 per employee. Let the experts at RefundsPro.com help you navigate the program. They have a proven track record with hundreds of satisfied clients. Don't miss out on your chance for a big refund.Take the free 5-minute questionnaire at RefundsPro.com now.***Produced by Nova Media

Time is precious. I believe in working smarter, not harder.    Nick Sonnenberg (@nicholassonnenberg) is an entrepreneur, author, and world-renowned innovator of efficiency for self and teams. Nick's recent book Come Up For Air made the Wall Street Journal's best selling list in 2023.   Nick Sonnenberg's Come Up For Air is a timeless guide for anyone who wants to improve their productivity and work smarter, not harder. “Work has changed. And it's kind of like what's going on as people are still using a typewriter. Basically, when you could get a new M2 chip and a MacBook Pro, and you're trying to get stuff done on a typewriter, it's just suboptimal.”  - Nick Sonnenberg Key Takeaways: Strategy over Luck: Working smart is about having the right strategy and tools. Some companies can be lucky in success. However, there is always a moment when all teams need to learn to finetune their algorithm.  CPR: The core to success for any team is Communication, Planning Tools, and Resources. This acronym is the foundation of Nick's success in helping teams become effective in saving time and finding balance at work.  Email Zero Inbox Rule: Keep your email at 0 and improve your work flow. This rule makes sure you do not miss opportunities that can cost you potentially millions of dollars. Saving Money and Time in Meetings: Take inventory of who really needs to be in a meeting. If someone can make you a video of a report and send it to you, that can save you and your team valuable meeting time. Cut back on the length of the meetings to save money and time. It is simple and efficient.   Go to https://hvmn.com/ and use the promo code: ‘Divine' to 20% off your next purchase of Keytone IQ Links: Leverage  Come Up For Air  Nick@LinkedIn  

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. This is the culmination of Nick's unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation which stems in part from the eight years he spent working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. The CPR Framework consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 10.

In this episode, Sarah and Laura celebrate ergonomically-improved recording setups, and then discuss current business book favorites. Then, Sarah interviews Nick Sonnenberg, an entrepreneur, writer, and founder/CEO of Leverage, an operational efficiency consultancy. They chat email, managing other workplace communications, meetings, and much more.In the Q&A, Sarah and Laura give advice to a reader in graduate school wondering how to balance networking time with her studies.Nick's new book Come Up For Air was released just last week -- a guide to maximizing efficiency in the workplace to free up extra time at work for everyone on the team. Find it wherever books are sold and delve into free resources from Nick at comeupforair.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:  How you can gain an extra full day work using the CPR efficiency framework   The BEST tools to maximize your communication skills and STOP wasting your time The keys to meetings that don't waste time The secret hack for increasing productivity and accomplishing your goals   Resources: Website: www.getleverage.com & comeupforair.com  Read Come Up For Air  Email: admin@getleverage.com  LinkedIn: @Nicholas Sonnenberg Facebook: @Nick Sonnenberg Instagram: @nicholassonnenberg Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com  If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes:  What would you do if you had more time in your day!? Nick Sonnenberg is a high frequency trainer and the CEO & Founder of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement the CPR framework to make the most of every second of the day. He'll share the best way you can solve your efficiency problems and shift your mindset so you can spend more time working towards your goals! Remember, cutting corners will not help you reach your goals faster, but you can streamline your processes to free up more time! Tune in and discover how you can finally stop drowning in work and come up for air.  About The Guest: Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, author, and guest lecturer at Columbia University! He's the CEO and Founder of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement the CPR business efficiency framework outlined in his new book, Come Up For Air. Nick is here to share his unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation after spending 8 years as a high frequency trainer on Wall Street.  If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle ‘Mace' Curran Former U.S. Fighter Pilot, Thunderbird Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams  Why YOUR BEST Is Yet To Come, With Heather!  Discover Your Calling! With Ryan Blair Founder Of AlterCall  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sonnenberg doesn't believe there just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. That's because when his business was in crisis mode, he developed a framework for eliminating inefficiencies and preventing the sort of metawork – working on working – that leads to scavenger hunts and meetings that could be emails, and for that matter, email runarounds that get everyone ever farther from inbox zero. He turned that framework into a consultancy business, and put it all together in a new book for people who feel underwater titled Come up For Air.Come Up For Air: https://comeupforair.comNick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nick_sonnenbergHow Minds Change: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehomeDavid McRaney's Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidmcraneyYANSS Twitter: https://twitter.com/notsmartblogShow Notes: www.youarenotsosmart.comNewsletter: https://davidmcraney.substack.com