In this episode we cover: The 5 (and a half) commandments of an Organized Office Time yourself (organize like a 5-year-old) 1.5 – Strike when the iron is hot!     -Organize when you are motivated     -In ABR Episode 21 – Zack and Jim Benson talk about how “Personal Kanban” can help you be prepared…

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Susan Lannis has been in business for over 30 years. She is a professional organizer working with highly gifted individuals to help them get their genius out to the world. In this episode we cover: Finding clarity on: What you really want. How much time you want to spend on it. How much money you…

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Tiago Forte is a wealth of knowledge. He draws on his background in design and technology to help knowledge workers apply design thinking to day-to-day productivity challenges. In this episode, Tiago and I discuss the PARA method to organizing your reference material. In this episode we cover:  What Evernote is and why to use it instead…

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Ruoyon Xu is a Social Media Strategist, Speaker and Founder of C3Nami.  Her team empowers local business owners to connect and build relationships with their audience through social media. In this episode we cover: How to create a “real” relationship with your audience and grow your business through social media C3Nami’s strategy for creating successful…

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Jim Benson shows you how to understand your work on a much deeper level. Why? So you can do the best thing at any given time. Sounds difficult, right? It’s not. Jim’s methodology (Personal Kanban) is highly visual — you can see at a glance what needs to get done, what you’re working on, what…

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Mads Singers is an outsourcing specialist.  He believes that people are the single most important element of management, and is focused on helping leaders effectively get the most out of their team. In this episode we cover: What the DiSC Personality Profile is, and how it can be helpful for your team. Dominance Influence Steadiness Conscientiousness How…

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Kendra is a location independent entrepreneur, who runs a 6-figure business from a Macbook pro. She’s come on to share how she uses Google Calendar and the happy sh*t sandwich technique to get all of her most important work done while her creative juices are flowing. In this episode we cover: Having the “most important meeting of…

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Ricardo Palomares is a speaker/coach/author/explorer/filmmaker helping dreamers bet on themselves to achieve what seems impossible and become powerful, mindful leaders. Zack talks to Ricardo about taking massive, focused actions in the areas that give you the most action. In this episode we cover: Ricardo’s recent project titled Pedal South- where four storytellers cycled 18,000 miles, from…

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This podcast is designed to get all the would, could, should, ought to’s: out of your head off your psyche written down in black and white so you can have a visual snapshot of all your obligations. It’s the first step overcommitted folks need to take to slow down and make fewer better commitments. In…

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Courtney Carver is the author and photographer behind the website Be More With Less. In this episode we talk about how embracing minimalism helped Courtney transition from feeling overworked, overstressed, and overwhelmed to a healthier, happier version of herself. In this episode we cover: How to listen to your personal cues to process information and respond more…

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A few Able Business Radio listeners wrote in with concerns about privacy issues with Unroll.me. Here’s what I’ve found: 1. If you are not the customer, you are the product. 2. They recently sold anonymous data to Uber.  3. A paid alternative is SaneBox. 4. Unroll.me disclosed the fact that they sell your meta data in…

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This week, Zack goes solo to help you with tackle email overwhelm to effectively respond to the people you need to respond to. In this episode we cover: How to control the flow of emails Strategies to reduce the flow of emails Why you should stop checking your email (and what to do instead) Is this…

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For the past 30 years Meredith Bell has helped people become better leaders by showing them how to be more effective communicators. In this episode we cover: The five questions you can ask to: foster independence of team and family members develop deeper relationships analyze and move on from negative situations reflect and learn from…

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You want to take your paper and turn it into electronic documents. You also want to be able to find those electronic documents when you need them. And it would be nice if those electronic documents are backed up and secure. How do you do that? In this jam-packed episode, paperless expert Brooks Duncan shows…

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Micheal E Gerber is the author of the mega-bestseller “The E-Myth Revisited” and 28 other business coaching books. Michael has been teaching small business owners how to be more effective for the past 40 years. This interview is no exception. In this episode we cover: How small businesses are failing the same way they failed in…

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