

The Less Doing Podcast
Ari Meisel
Welcome to The Less Doing Podcast with your host, Ari Meisel. Ari is a self-described "overwhelmologist" and founder of Less Doing. He helps entrepreneurs find focus, flexibility, and freedom in their business. The methodology enables founders to become replaceable so they can scale their business. His raving fans include folks like Tim Ferriss, Dan Sullivan, Victoria Labalme, Jim Kwik, and Steve Sims. So if you want to discover new tools, tech, habits, ideas, and workflows to improve your productivity, this is the audible hang you've been searching for. More at http://less.do/podcast
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
450 - The Ultimate KPI
What’s the ultimate KPI? Ari’s incredible masterpiece. Ari talks about the best KPI that you can use and explains why it can help you in your business.
Highlights
What’s the best KPI? 0:29
How does it work? - 0:40
Having flexibility and freedom - 2:22
An inventor and an engineer - 2:58
Think about the 16 things that you are not going to do anymore at the end of the year - 3:37
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Aug 9, 2021 • 7min
449 - Shift in the Business Epilogue
What can you do to be more effective in your business? Ari talks about his experience, what he did to make things happen, and what decisions he made to be able to coach more effectively today.
Highlights
Being grateful for all his supporters - 0:23
What is the strategic buy product? - 1:24
Methods that he teaches - 1:54
Having a community on Facebook and podcast listeners - 2:31
Making himself happier with the work that he is doing - 2:56
Being a private coach - 3:48
Scale on coaching - 5:40
Using Voxer as an excellent tool - 6:27
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

Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
448 - Stop Scaling
Is the single focus of your business scaling? In today’s episode, Ari talks about a big change to his business.
Highlights
Scaling your business? - 0:42
Scaling intends to create more wealth at the end - 0:59
Being productive - 2:10
What defines success - 3:17
Ari’s experience with scaling a business - 4:18
You have to be more you - 5:46
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=SzUdj3n4r10&feature=youtu.be

Aug 9, 2021 • 7min
447 - Shortcuts and Reading Labels
Ari talks about not reinventing the wheel and getting an outside perspective.
Highlights
Talking about shortcuts - 0:41
Being a coach - 2:01
Figuring things out by yourself - 2:15
Figuring out a problem - 3:22
Having the answers to problems - 3:47
You need an outside perspective - 4:34
Changing your perspective - 5:37
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
446 - How Should CEOs Spend Their Time?
What’s the best use of your time as a CEO? Ari talks about this topic and how to be the brickbreaker.
Highlights
The CEO role - 0:45
Serving your team as a CEO - 2:02
The leader’s job - 2:44
Provide the things that your team needs - 3:05
What we don’t want in a business - 4:56
Remove obstacles from your team and be the brickbreaker - 5:22
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Aug 9, 2021 • 10min
445 - Everyday Carry
In today’s episode, Ari talks about an element of efficiency: the Everyday Carry. He talks about the “things that you carry everyday.”
Highlights
What’s the “everyday carry” - 0:35
Creating an everyday carry - 2:52
Ari’s everyday carry - 3:41
An unbelievable tool for you - 7:54
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Aug 9, 2021 • 10min
444 - Asynchronous Communication by the Numbers
Ari talks about the importance of asynchronous communication and communication with mathematics. He shares with us some tools that he uses such as Trello, Voxer, Slack and so much more.
Highlights
Understanding the value of asynchronous communication - 0:13
Using asynchronous communication - 1:35
Voxer as an excellent tool - 2:56
Answering Voxer messages - 4:34
Why use asynchronous communication - 6:20
The numbers don’t lie - 7:49
Being ten times more effective - 9:00
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/
www.voxwithari.com
www.less.do/facebook

Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
443 - Always Optimize First
Don’t skip optimizing. Ari talks about the importance of optimizing and what happens if we don’t optimize first.
Highlights
Optimizing, automating and outsourcing - 0:23
Why people want to skip optimization - 0:39
One of the top Zapier people in the world - 2:05
How to automate a process - 3:20
An automation as a bandaid - 4:21
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/

Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
442 - Peak Time
Do you know about “peak time”? Ari explains about an app and how you can find your peak time.
Highlights
Technology tools that make us productive - 0:09
What’s peak time? - 0:30
People’s peak time - 1:51
Being able to be more resilient - 2:47
Time of day when you are at your best - 3:55
Talking about the Peak App - 4:20
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/
Peak time app in iOS and Android: https://www.peak.net/

Aug 9, 2021 • 7min
441 - Another Inbox
Ari talks about why you should stop trying to use your email for everything!
Highlights
Overwhelmed by your inbox - 0:30
Having troubles implementing Slack - 1:11
The need for another communication tool - 1:50
Dealing with leads and customer service by email - 4:28
Stop trying to put everything in one place - 6:21
Reducing your email inbox - 6:37
Episode Resources
Connect with Ari Meisel
https://lessdoing.com/
https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/
https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/


