The Less Doing Podcast

What would you do if you could work for only an hour a day? What are the constraints? Highlights The Less Doing system - 0:51 Unlocking constraints - 1:07 Growing and working - 1:58 Removing your constraints - 2:53 It is not just about removing them - 3:33 Do you use an hour to complete a task? - 4:24 Unlocking constraints is not about finding more time - 5:40 The lack of resources force innovation - 6:43 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

When having a team and people that work for you, it’s so important to have structure. Ari explains how and why it’s important to have a team and create a structure to get things done. Highlights Your clients and customers are part of your team - 0:53 Two ways that entrepreneurs stress out their teams - 1:36 The entrepreneur’s team and mind - 2:14 Your team is everybody - 2:59 Having a structure to do things - 4:13 Create a structure for you and your team - 5:40 Management vs. leadership - 7:26 Leadership is about empowerment - 8:06 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Decision making is something that all of us do. How many decisions do you make in a day? Do you feel exhausted at any point? The hidden stress with having to make decisions. Highlights We get overwhelmed - 1:13 Having a decision making problem - 1:24 Making decisions your whole life does not mean that you are good at it - 2:10 We do not have a structure - 3:21 Wasting a lot of time - 5:15 Deal with it right now - 6:04 Delegate effectively - 7:25 Defer things - 8:00 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Multitasking is a really damaging thing. Training ourselves to be better in using our time is a mindset. Learn how you can control what’s urgent and what is not in your life by listening to this episode. Highlights The communication SOP - 1:35 One tool for external communication and one tool for internal communication - 1:49 Urgent communication - 2:17 Controlling urgencies - 2:49 What urgent looks like - 3:50 Avoiding interruption - 4:30 What focus looks like for you - 5:54 You need to find the right system - 7:44 Become more flexible - 8:58 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Let’s talk about how your calendar looks. In this episode, Ari talks about his full calendar and how he is working with private clients. Highlights Having a full calendar - 1:03 More than one calendar - 1:13 Having a full calendar is overwhelming - 1:32 A big fan of using calendly - 2:13 Manage your energy and resources - 2:56 A calendar 100% full - 3:57 How your time is used - 4:40 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

This is a hot topic. Everybody feels that they have some procrastination. Ari uncovers the truth around this. Highlights Why procrastination is rude - 0:46 Why we choose to procrastinate - 1:17 With procrastination, you have decided to do something - 2:15 His experience snacking - 5:08 An example of procrastination - 5:28 Doing what you said you were going to do - 6:15 A very important tool - 6:52 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

I do not want to do this podcast anymore. I do not want to do it anymore and that’s what I’m going to do. I will stop at 500 episodes. Highlights I’m not going to stop the podcast right now - 0:36 I will stop the podcast at 500 episodes - 1:04 What I’ve done - 2:09 Being creative right now - 2:45 Preferring to create content for people that have paid for it - 3:13 The way that I like to produce content the most - 4:44 Doing more than one episode per week - 5:53 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

This is a different episode where Ari talks about Crohn’s disease. He shares his experience overcoming the disease. Highlights Ari’s story with Crohn’s disease - 0:32 Being really sick - 1:04 Training hard - 1:38 Curing himself - 3:04 Stress as an inflammatory agent - 3:50 Control stress and control the disease - 4:02 An extensive article that is on Medium - 5:02 The power of being in control of things in your life - 5:53 Gluten-free and low-carb - 6:58 It is all about control - 8:20 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/ http://less.do/crohns

What’s the ultimate KPI? Learn more about it as Ari explains and more about how making yourself replaceable does not mean being replaced. Highlights Automatization and outsourcing - 0:22 Making replaceability part of your job - 0:45 People grow in different ways - 1:20 We need to extend the culture of being replaceable - 2:01 Being irreplaceable makes you stuck - 2:57 Making yourself more replaceable - 3:18 Finding ways to improve - 3:40 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

I switched my programming to offer one-on-one private coaching. I shut down the operations of Less Doing and I have been focusing on coaching using asynchronous communication as the best tool, that’s why I recommend using Voxer! Highlights Why is Voxer a good tool? - 1:05 Voxer is the only tool that provides audio and text messages - 1:21 Settings in Voxer - 2:09 What does Voxer do for you? - 3:11 Episode Resources Connect with Ari Meisel https://lessdoing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUF8np9Eb4c&feature=youtu.be