Shawn Stevenson is an author of  Sleep Smarter: 21 Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success. He is also the creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast in the country on iTunes. A graduate of The University of Missouri – St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology and kinesiology, and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide.

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Laura Vanderkam is a nationally recognized writer who questions the status quo and helps her readers rediscover their true passions and beliefs in pursuit of more meaningful lives. Laura is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, What Successful People Do Before Breakfast, What Successful People Do on the Weekend, and What People Do at Work, now all out in paperback compilation form.

Benjamin Spall is a writer and the founding editor of the website My Morning Routine, with co-founder Michael Xander. Their book of the same name is out now: My Morning Routine – How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired.

In this episode Benjamin and Erik discuss creating a morning routine that works for you, how an evening routine helps with a morning routine and some of the most common components successful people include in their routines.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Weebly – Get 15% off your first purchase! 
• Storyworth – Get 20$ off!
• Grove Collaborative – Get a $30 Mrs. Meyer’s kit + a bonus gift + a two-month VIP membership – use promo code ‘beyond’

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter at the New York Times and author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and spent more than 90 weeks on New York Times’ best-seller lists. His new book is Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. You can find Charles Duhigg’s first appearance on this show here.

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— Erik Fisher (@ErikJFisher) June 18, 2016

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter at the New York Times and author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and spent over 90 weeks on New York Times’ best seller lists.

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• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Joshua Becker is on a mission to inspire others to live more by owning less. Joshua is a blogger at Becoming Minimalist and is the bestselling author of Simplify and The More of Less. Joshua’s new book is The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life.

In this episode Erik and Joshua discuss his new book, the meaning of minimalism, the practicality behind decluttering, how to get other members of your family of board and much more.

Mentioned in this episode:

• MGemi – Get $50 off your first pair!
• Mack Weldon – Get 20% off your first order using promo code ‘beyond’
• Policy Genius

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
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• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time-management and productivity books, including Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.

In this episode, Laura talks with Erik about her new book: Juliet’s School of Possibilities: A Little Story About the Power of Priorities.

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. This is his 2nd time on the show. Listen to his 1st episode here.

The Productivity Project—and the lessons Chris learned—are the result of that year-long journey. Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach you:
·         slowing down to work more deliberately;
·         shrinking or eliminating the unimportant;
·         the rule of three;
·         striving for imperfection;
·         scheduling less time for important tasks;
·         the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions;
·         and the concept of productive procrastination.

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Mystie Winckler works to provide practical & encouraging solutions for real moms living a full life. She runs the site ‘Simplified Organization’ where she teaches how to change the way you think about your responsibilities, improve your mood and devise systems that will help you stress less and accomplish more.

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

James Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Through his online course, The Habits Academy, Clear has taught more than 10,000 leaders, managers, coaches, and teachers.

In this episode James taels with Erik about his new book Habits: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones.

Chase Reeves is a self proclaimed ‘creative-y type’, one of the cofounders of Fizzle.co — honest business training for online entrepreneurs. He podcasts on The Fizzle Show — A podcast for creative entrepreneurs. He regularly contributes to The Sparkline — The blog that accompanies the previous two. Listen to his previous appearance on the show here.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tim Ferris Podcast – Matt Mullenweg
• https://fizzle.co/sparkline/3-tricks-for-productivity-and-focus
• Group Therapy Podcast
• Royksopp’s Monument
• Fizzle Podcast 99 – Journaling
• Rowan Reeves
• Melissa Reeves recent awesome writing:
  • http://wombandhearth.com/go-back-to-grieve/
  • http://wombandhearth.com/one-more-rainbow/

• Back to Work Podcast
• http://icetothebrim.com/2012/how-to-mindfulness-meditation/
• http://icetothebrim.com/2013/the-tom-selleck-of-meditation/
• Day One App
• Headspace app

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

David Allen is the originator of GTD, and founder of David Allen Co. GTD is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done,” the groundbreaking work-life management system by David Allen that provides concrete solutions for navigating uncertainty into an integrated system of stress-free productivity.

David is the author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life.

David Allen Company is a global training and consulting company, widely considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity.

Covered in this episode:

• GTD Basics
• GTD hang ups – common places where the GTD process falls apart for people:

1. 1. Failure to capture
   2. Failure to decide the outcome you’re committed to, and the specific action steps
   3. Failure to then act (2 minute rule) or capture the action, or reminder to act on in the future
   4. Failure to review

• The one list most people do work well is their calendar.
• Anything that is a win that instills trust in your system helps.
• Simple processes to achieve mini wins to trust your system more
• Drawing on the right side of the brain
• Sometimes a trusted system can be people
• David Allen’s TEDx Talk: WHY do GTD, not just WHAT it is or HOW
• How David starts his day: Good coffee, and the right maps.
• Dealing with distractions and unexpected inbox deliveries
• David’s most powerful tools: The Physical Inbox and Notetaker wallet
• How GTD applies to “work/life balance/blending”
• GTD is a lifestyle
• A lot of Getting Things Done is about not getting things done. It’s about being appropriately engaged with what’s going on.
• GTD and personal relationships
• The relationship between David and his wife’s personal GTD systems
• GTD behaviors really need to be installed in a cooperate culture
• Click to tweet ->[tweetable]Bad meetings create huge emails, and huge emails create bad meetings. – @GTDGuy[/tweetable]
• Movings things from the someday maybe list into actions and tasks to bring them into reality
• How much time is too much time “investigating” productivity apps?
• The “official GTD app”

David uses:

• List function in Lotus notes
• Eproductivity add in for list and calender functionality
• Mind Manager for mind maps
• The Brain

For capture:

• iPhone 5
• iPad
• Gmail
• Nothing beats pen and paper!

Connect with David and the GTD System:

• gtdconnect.com
• gtdtimes.com
• davidco
• GTDGuy on Twitter

This week I’m joined by Michael Hyatt, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. He is also the former Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. He is also a very influential blogger at MichaelHyatt.com, and podcaster with his show This Is Your Life.

Covered in this episode:

• Start your day doing nothing?
• Benefits of Journaling
• Day One Journaling App – Mac
• Day One Journaling App – iOS
• Margin
• Designing your ‘Ideal Week’
• Scheduling time to build your Platform
• Having a ‘hard stop’ to the day
• Articulate your priorities
• Being stuck
• Getting distracted by gadgets
• This Is Your Life – What The Internet Has Been Doing To Our Brains
• Unplugging from Technology
• Digital Detox
• Startupizer
• Hootsuite
• Fluid App
• Evernote
• Evernote Training: Become An Evernote Master
• Workflowy
• Keynote
• Byword Mac
• Byword iOS
• Pathfinder
• Michael’s Annual Time Block Tool
• Bufferapp
• Downcast
• Martha Beck – The Joy Diet

What gets scheduled is what gets done. - @MichaelHyattClick To Tweet

Michael’s Go To Podcasts

• Podcast Answer Man
• EntreLeadership
• Smart Passive Income
• Your Move with Andy Stanley
• Dan Miller – 48 Days To The Work You Love

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. Erik and Chris talked about his first book The Productivity Project during the last episode he appeared on. Chris is back to talk about his new book Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction.

Jeff Sanders is a productivity coach, personal development junky, and avid trail runner. Jeff writes and speaks through his blog and podcast about healthy habits, personal development, high energy, and rockin’ productivity.

This is Jeff’s second appearance on the show, and you can listen to his first appearance here.

Make sure to grab Jeff’s new book: The 5am Miracle

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• The Audacity to Podcast: "How-to" podcast about podcasting
• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Laura McClellan is a wife, mom, lawyer, writer and host of The Productive Woman podcast.

She joins Erik on this episode to talk about tips, tricks, tools and have to have a proper perspective on productivity.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Mac Power Users
• Katie Floyd
• David Sparks
• Greg Scown
• Textexpander
• Nozbe
• BusyCal
• Evernote
• Adobe Spark Post
• ToDoist
• PDFPen
• Apple Watch
• iPad Pro

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• Beyond the To-Do List: Personal and professional productivity
• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Mike Vardy is a husband, father, writer, productivity strategist, and the founder of Productivityist. Mike has been on this podcast more than any other guest!

This episode is part one of a two part conversation between Mike and Erik. Listen to the second part on the Productivityist Podcast here!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Todd Henry
• Seinfeld – Comedian
• Merlin Mann
• Srinivas Rao
• Acuity
• Priorities Blab Show

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• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

• Maybe It’s You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life.

Carson Tate is a dynamic teacher and coach known for personal transformation and simple, powerful actionable content. She is a nationally renowned expert on productivity. She is the author of Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style. Make sure to take her Productivity Style Assessment!

In this episode, Carson talks with Erik about how to discover your personal productivity style.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Asana
• Trello
• Evernote
• Pomodoro method
• Four Productivity styles: Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, Visualizer

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• The Productive Woman: Productivity for busy women
• ONCE: Once Upon a Time podcast
• Welcome to Level Seven: Agents of SHIELD and Marvel’s cinematic universe podcast
• Are You Just Watching?: Movie reviews with Christian critical thinking
• the Ramen Noodle: Family-friendly clean comedy

Craig Jarrow is the author of Time Management Ninja. The mission of his site is to help individuals and companies reclaim their time. His new book is Time Management Ninja: 21 Rules for More Time and Less Stress in Your Life.

In this episode Craig talks with Erik about the productivity tools to make more time and get rid of stress

Mentioned in this episode:

• Honeybook
• Textexpander
• Ora Organic
• MetPro