18. Optimizing Your Productivity to Do More of What You Love with Mike Vardy

  Mike Vardy is the founder of Productivityist, and host of the Productivityist podcast. He is a 3 time author, whose book’s include The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want, The Productivityist Workbook and Beyond Trying and regularly contributes to outlets such as LifeHacker and The Huffington Post     EPISODE  Mike Vardy is known as the Productivityist, a fitting name, because he doesn't treat productivity like a tactic, he treats it like a belief system. Mike believes in productivity as a way to not just get you doing more, but get you doing more of the stuff that you love. He's been studying it since his early career at Costco,  an environment where an efficient system is crucial. He studied the greats, did some testing of their systems on himself, refined them according to their flaws and strengths and added a few of his own brilliant ideas to create "Now Your Way", the productivity system of his own creation. This show is chock full of tips that will get anybody rethinking the way they organize their life. We discuss: • why most productivity tools don’t seem to work at first • the 'mode' system, and how it can easily get your brain in a state of flow • the strengths and weaknesses of famous productivity systems • how to work with your biology to produce more effective results   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/mikevardy LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Productivityist.com/optimizedgeek RPM, Tony Robbins The Covey Matrix Getting Things Done Pavlok Evernote The Information Diet TaskRabbit Virtual Staff Finder The Power of Intention SleepCycle Todoist Asana MindNode Zoom.us     GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Don’t be a slave to email – designate certain hours of the day, or even certain days a week, to handling your inbox. 2. Create a filing system within your email so everything gets out of the inbox and into a system that separates it into messages that require actions, messages that are for reading/informational, and archives. 3. Work with your body, and find the time of day when you are the most creative. If you are a night owl, don’t force yourself to be a morning person.     THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook