No Days Off with Brian Gubernick

In this episode, Brian Gubernick breaks down Parkinson's Law, how we can use it to encourage more efficiency, and how we can leverage the concept in our lives. Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time available for its completion; the longer you allot for a project to complete, the longer it will take. Brian explains why he believes that inverting Parkinson's Law can increase personal productivity. Today's focusing questions: Where have you allotted too much time or not set a deadline and, as a result, you are far less efficient than you would be than if you set a stretch goal if you inverted Parkinson's Law? ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats Bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram: @nodaysoff_podcast Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In this episode, Brian Gubernick discusses how to become a better leader and how to identify leaders in your organization. In Sam Walker's book, The Captain Class, through analyzing and studying sports teams, Walker discovered that the individual that you would typically suspect to be the team's captain was not always the captain of the team. Rather, the leadership qualities that the captains displayed were different from what society might believe to be 'captain-like qualities'. Brian walks through a few of the lessons that he learned from this book and shares some stories about influential leaders who led their teams to victories. Today's focusing questions: Are you naming the right leaders in your organization? Are you empowering the right people to step up to become leaders within your organization? If you are a leader, are you displaying these qualities? *ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY* To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram: @nodaysoff_podcast Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

First and foremost, THANK YOU for joining us for 100 episodes! We wouldn't be here without each of you who tune in every weekday morning with the commitment to get better at your businesses, relationships, health, lives, and so much more. To celebrate our 100th episode, we are doing a giveaway!! More details are below. This past weekend, I completed 29029 at Snowbasin in Utah. 29029 is an event hosted by Jesse Itzler and Colin O'Brady where participants scale a mountain to the equivalent of 29,029 feet, the elevation of Mount Everest. I hiked for 24 hours straight to complete this feat and throughout those 24 hours, I experienced both physical and mental challenges. In this episode, I am sharing some lessons that I took away from my experience on the mountain. Today's focusing questions: How do the lessons shared in this episode apply to your world? Where could you apply these lessons? Attend BuiltHOW in Phoenix, Arizona featuring keynote speakers, Jesse Itzler and Colin O'Brady. HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY To enter: - Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast - If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats Bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram: @nodaysoffpodcast Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In this episode, I am sharing a tool that I learned about in a leadership and strategy course at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. The tool: The Eisenhower Matrix, founded by Dwight Eisenhower. This matrix is a time management and productivity tool designed to help people prioritize tasks based on their level of urgency and their level of importance. I walk through the matrix in detail and share ways you can leverage this tool in your life and business. Click here for a copy of the Eisenhower Matrix. Today's focusing questions: Of the tasks I have to do today, which quadrants do they live in, and how should I react based on how they fall on the matrix? Where are you spending the vast majority of your time right now according to the matrix? HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY As we are approaching our 100th episode, we are excited to announce our very first giveaway. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram: @nodaysoffpodcast Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In this episode, I am sharing a lesson from one of my heroes, Jocko Willink. The lesson: discipline equals freedom. Through self discipline and structured behavior, we have the ability to achieve personal and professional goals at an extreme level. I share some real life examples to help understand how to leverage this lesson in business and life. I also share some things you can start doing to create more discipline in multiple areas of life. Today's focusing questions: Where are you lacking discipline in business, health, relationships? What would it look like if you introduced more discipline into your habits or activities? Books referenced in this episode: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink Warrior Kid Series by Jocko Willink HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY As we are approaching our 100th episode, we are excited to announce our very first giveaway. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In this episode, I am sharing my new favorite mental model: multiplicative systems. As we learned in elementary school, anything multiplied by zero, equals zero. No matter how great or complex the number, if it is multiplied by zero, it will equal zero. How does this apply to our lives or businesses? In anything you are doing in life, no matter how hard you are working, how many people are supporting you, or how much you have succeeded in the past, if you include any 'zero' variable in that mix, the outcome will be... zero. Today's focusing questions: As you breakdown your business, can you identify any zeros? What can you do starting today, to move that item from zero to anything above zero? HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY As we are approaching our 100th episode, we are excited to announce our very first giveaway. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In this episode, I reference a book I read some time ago that has continued to have an effect on my life - Limitless by Jim Kwik. In this book, Kwik shares strategies around how to learn faster and unlock an excpetional life. One of Kwik's concepts that I resonated with was the topic of 'preparing our mind to learn'. I am sharing what this concept entails and how I have been using it in my life. Today's challenge: How can you take the three questions shared in this episode and apply them to what you are learning? How can you use these questions to develop better action steps around or better implementation of the knowledge you gained? Here is the book referenced in this episode: Limitless by Jim Kwik HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY As we are approaching our 100th episode, we are excited to announce our very first giveaway. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast - If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

I believe that you should not take criticism from somone who you would not seek advice from. In this episode, we dig into receiving criticism from others, more so how and when you should accept cristicism from others. I take us through some real life examples of individuals and leaders who have received criticism from other people, how they persevered in the face of doubt, and how they, ultimately, proved those people wrong. Today's focusing question: Where are you fearful of experiencing criticism? Here is the book referenced in this episode: Limitless by Jim Kwik HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY As we are approaching our 100th episode, we are excited to announce our very first giveaway. The lucky winner will receive a pair of Beats bluetooth headphones. We will announce our winner on August 23rd. To enter: Leave us a review wherever you listen to the No Days Off podcast. If you have left us a review in the past, you can still be entered to win! Simply send us a screenshot of your review to our Instagram @nodaysoffpodcast. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

In today's episode, I dig into the concept of 'choosing your hard'. In any area of life, whether you take the right steps to get to your goal or you disregard those steps and venture far off of that goal, it is hard. While it can be hard to take the right steps, it can be harder to face the results (or lack there of) when you don't take them. -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

When you understand the concept of circle of competence, and more specifically, your circle of competence, you can improve your decision-making and possible outcomes. I walk us through how to find out what our circle of competence actually is, what you can do once you identify it, and how to maintain it over time. Today's challenge: What is your circle of competence? What areas are you not competent in where should you improve? How are you gaining more knowledge and education to become more competent in those areas? -- Subscribe to our daily texts! Follow us on Facebook for more daily tips on how to improve your business and your life. Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network