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Steve Rodgers says getting your personal dreams mapped out on paper is important, as is talking with your partner/spouse about them. Equally important is to keep accountable to your plan by tracking your progress on a weekly and monthly basis and course correcting along the way. Anything worth playing is worth planning by having a game plan with some actionable steps instead of just winging it and hoping for the best. There is a price you pay for everything, and you have to determine are you willing to pay the cost or not. If you’re not, then don’t do it. If you are, then figure out how to get there and imagine the joys and benefits on the other side of making it happen.

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1 Simple Thing Action

Make a commitment to yourself to stay on track by getting an accountability partner, and forming a mastermind group to keep track of your short term and long term goals.

Mentioned In Episode

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Marcia Ramsland Episodes

Guest

Steve Rodgers

• Business & LifeStyle Consultant at The Alchemy Advisors
• Author
• Speaker

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On Today’s Show

Marcia Ramsland believes anyone can become more organized with new ideas — even YOU! Get organized and stay that way starting today. On this episode, Dave recaps episodes 451-454 where Marcia shares lessons from her new book, “Organize Your Workspace for a Productivity Boost.”

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1 Simple Thing Actions

Episode 451: Your Workspace-A Distraction or a Productivity Boost?

1 Simple Thing Action:
Take a picture of your workspace right now and analyze what makes you productive and what needs to be let go.

Episode 452: Organize Your Digital World Now!

1 Simple Thing Action:
Check all your email signatures and avatars to make sure they have consistent messaging for you and your brand. Everything online is a reflection of you, so it’s important to be consistent and professional. Also, check to see how many files and folders are on your computer desktop and ask yourself, “Is there digital clutter here?” Remove it from the desktop and into Marcia’s recommended filings system and you’ll feel like you have a brand new computer.

Episode 453: 15 Minutes – The Difference Between Average and Excellence

1 Simple Thing Action:
Identify one routine that you could change to shave 15 minutes off of and you’ll gain an extra 65 hours a year. At the end of the day take 15 minutes reflect on two things you did well and executed well. Then think about something you want to improve. If you do this 15-minute evaluation each day, you’ll be on your way from average to excellence.

Episode 454: Protect Your Personal Power Hours

1 Simple Thing Action:
Identify your 3 Key Personal Power Hours, including your peak work time, client meeting time, and family time and let everything else funnel around them. They are what make you successful every day.

Guest

Marcia Ramsland

• Organizing Pro
• Business Productivity Coach
• Author
• Speaker
• Nationally Recognized Media Guest

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On Today’s Show

Your digital space is your computer files, your email, and your online marketing presence. And for most of us, it’s probably as big of a problem, if not bigger, than the problem with our physical space. Many self-employed entrepreneurs are working out of coffee shops, so it’s not the physical space as much as it is all that junk on our computer. Digital clutter is just as bad as space clutter because it mentally slows your brain down, hurts your productivity, and can lead to costly mistakes.

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1 Simple Thing Action

Check all your email signatures and avatars to make sure they have consistent messaging for you and your brand. Everything online is a reflection of you, so it’s important to be consistent and professional. Also, check to see how many files and folders are on your computer desktop and ask yourself, “Is there digital clutter here?” Remove it from the desktop and into Marcia’s recommended filings system and you’ll feel like you have a brand new computer.

Guest

Marcia Ramsland

• Organizing Pro
• Business Productivity Coach
• Author
• Speaker
• Nationally Recognized Media Guest

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On Today’s Show

Professional organizer Marcia Ramsland talks about how the difference between average and excellence in our lives and careers is 15 Minutes at the beginning and end of our day. There is great power in how we start our day and end our day. If we just find 15 minutes a day to get organized and plan, usually at the beginning or at the end of the day, we’re going to work smarter and faster because we have been intentional about how we spend our time.

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1 Simple Thing Action

Identify one routine that you could change to shave 15 minutes off of and you’ll gain an extra 65 hours a year. At the end of the day take 15 minutes reflect on two things you did well and executed well. Then think about something you want to improve. If you do this 15-minute evaluation each day, you’ll be on your way from average to excellence.

Mentioned In Episode

168 Hour Time Tracker

Guest

Marcia Ramsland

• Organizing Pro
• Business Productivity Coach
• Author
• Speaker
• Nationally Recognized Media Guest

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On Today’s Show

Professional organizer Marcia Ramsland talks about your individual “power hours,” or the time of day you work at peak capacity, focus, and productivity. Typically it’s one to two hours, and you have to know when they occur. Otherwise, you’ll be zigging and zagging and reacting all day. Determine a particular, intentional point that is a power time in your week.

Also, when is your best time where you’re most alert to talk to people? Plan meetings during these times when you’ll be most ready to interact with others. Then, and probably most importantly, what is your determined relationship time with your loved ones? It’s critical for success that we put an emphasis and guard those power hours in our lives while everything else funnels around it.

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1 Simple Thing Action

Identify your 3 Key Personal Power Hours, including your peak work time, client meeting time, and family time and let everything else funnel around them. They are what make you successful every day.

Mentioned In Episode

Workspace Before and After Photos

168 Hour Time Tracker

The 30 Day Productivity Boost

Guest

Marcia Ramsland

• Organizing Pro
• Business Productivity Coach
• Author
• Speaker
• Nationally Recognized Media Guest

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On Today’s Show

When the space around you is clear, your productivity jumps dramatically, and you’ll save time. It’s a beautiful transition when we can get our space, and our mind, organized. Productivity launches and you can move into new areas as you grow. It’s like a pyramid: the base is organization. But that’s never the goal; it’s only the tool, and it moves you up to progressively greater productivity. When you organize your space, it clears your mind and helps everything move faster. The faster the pace of your life the more organized you need to be.

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1 Simple Thing Action

Take a picture of your workspace right now and analyze what makes you productive and what needs to be let go.

Mentioned In Episode

Workspace Before and After Photos

Guest

Marcia Ramsland

• Organizing Pro
• Business Productivity Coach
• Author
• Speaker
• Nationally Recognized Media Guest

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On Today’s Show

Author and podcaster Jeff Sanders shows us why it’s important to reach what he calls “equilibrium zero.” That’s a state where you are working from a very clean space. You want to achieve the simplicity of only working on one thing at a time, and that only happens when things are clean and organized. You then get to that state where you can say, “I have processed everything around me so now I can give all of myself to my next task.”

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1 Simple Thing Action

Get to Equilibrium Zero once a day (Inbox Zero, Desktop Zero, Home Base Zero, Project Management Zero). Begin your day creating a physical space that is clean and organized and ready to begin your first project.

Mentioned In Episode

Marcia Ramsland – Episode 36: Organize Your Office Space to Reduce Mental Clutter

Guest

Jeff Sanders

• Host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast
• Author
• Blogger
• Productivity Coach
• Personal Development Expert

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On Today’s Show

Joe Calloway talks about what is often the most powerful step we can take in simplifying our lives: learning to let go and start saying “no.” As a matter of fact saying “no” is the most important part of taking constructive action. Many people might think the opposite – if you are going to get a lot done you need to say “yes” to everything. But if you say “yes” to everything and put everything in the category of being of super-important, then you’ll not get anything done. You’ll flail around in a hundred different directions. Learn what to say “no” to. It frees you to do the most important things, which are the most satisfying, the most productive, and how you make the greatest contribution.

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1 Simple Thing Action

What are three things that you need to let go of, stop doing, or start saying “no” to? Start with these two suggestions: Are there any people you need to let go of or stop hanging out with? And say no to more invitations to social engagements.

Mentioned In Episode

Marcia Ramsland 1 Simple Thing Episodes:
Episode 451: Your Workspace-A Distraction or a Productivity Boost?
Episode 452: Organize Your Digital World Now!
Episode 453: 15 Minutes – The Difference Between Average and Excellence
Episode 454: Protect Your Personal Power Hours
Episode 455: Organize Your Workspace for a Productivity Boost
Episode 36: Organize Your Office Space to Reduce Mental Clutter
Episode 37: Developing a Time Plan
Episode 38: Do Less to Accomplish More
Episode 39: Stay on Top of E-Mail
Episode 40: Get Organized Recap

Guest

Joe Calloway

• Leadership & Performance Speaker
• Business Keynote Speaker
• Business Workshop Leader
• Business Author
• Consultant
• NSA Speakers Hall of Fame

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On Today’s Show

Author and podcaster Jeff Sanders shows us why it’s important to reach what he calls “equilibrium zero.” That’s a state where you are working from a very clean space. You want to achieve the simplicity of only working on one thing at a time, and that only happens when things are clean and organized. You then get to that state where you can say, “I have processed everything around me so now I can give all of myself to my next task.”

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1 Simple Thing Action

Get to Equilibrium Zero once a day (Inbox Zero, Desktop Zero, Home Base Zero, Project Management Zero). Begin your day creating a physical space that is clean and organized and ready to begin your first project.

Mentioned In Episode

Marcia Ramsland – Episode 36: Organize Your Office Space to Reduce Mental Clutter

Guest

Jeff Sanders

• Host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast
• Author
• Blogger
• Productivity Coach
• Personal Development Expert

CLICK HERE to connect with Jeff Sanders on Facebook

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CLICK HERE to connect with Jeff Sanders on LinkedIn

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