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022 – How to Be Productive in the Margins on the Road with Mirdu Parikh

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 022 show notes! This week we talk with productivity expert Mirdu Parikh on productivity and margins while on the road.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

1:20 – Mirdu Parikh Introduction

3:45 – What is the framework of your book on productivity?

6:45 – A.C.T

6:55 – A = Avoid Distractions

Put that phone on "Do Not Disturb". Even a momentary disruption can get you out of your flow! Click To Tweet

7:25 – How can we handle distraction on the road when it’s time to work?

14:20 – Pomodoro Method

You can get so much more done than you think when you are FOCUSED! Click To Tweet

16:50 – C = Commit to Your Priorities

20:30 – Gotta do list!

Taking 60 seconds to write down your "gotta do" list can increase your productivity by 40% Click To Tweet

25:10 – How do we choose our priorities?

If it's not on your calendar, it's ALL on your calendar. Click To Tweet

28:30 – What are you suggestions on maximizing our meetings?

30:00 – T = Time blocking

34:25 – Elite Road Warrior Book and Assessment Promo

36:00 – Wrap Up

Links and Resources:
Road Warrior Assessment

Elite Road Warrior Book

Mirdu Parikh

021 – How to Know if You’re Stuck in a Road Rut and How to Get Out of It

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 021 show notes! This week we discuss the importance of making and breaking habits while on the road.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

1:10 – 6 Energy Habits Review

1:23 – DEVELOP Energy Habit Review

Your habits make or break your ability to become an Elite Road Warrior. Click To Tweet

4:40 – Habit = behavior repeated enough times it’s automatic (4 steps)

The purpose of every habit is to solve the problems you face. Click To Tweet "Success is the product of daily habits, not once in a lifetime transformation" – James Clear Click To Tweet

11:42 – Book and Assessment Promos

15:20 – 4 Laws of Behavior Change

The most effective form of motivation is YOUR SUCCESS Click To Tweet

19:35 – 5 Ways to Get Out of a Road Rut

24:00 – Keystone Habits vs. Tombstone Habits

26:50 – Let’s land this plane! (wrap up)

Resources for This Week’s Episode:
Road Warrior Assessment

Elite Road Warrior Book

James Clear’s Atomic Habits

020 – Getting Oily on the Road With Beckie Farrant

Welcome to the show notes for Episode 020 of the Elite Road Warrior Podcast! This week we talk with Beckie Farrant about getting oily (essential oils) on the road.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

1:45 – Beckie Farrant introduction

4:25 – What exactly are essential oils and why are they so popular right now?

6:25 – How do essential oils work?

8:00 – What are the benefits of essential oils on the road?

You don't have time to be sick, have bad breath, or be hungover or tired while on the road! #EssentialOils Click To Tweet

10:55 – What are the top three essential oils you would recommend and how would we use them on the road?

Lavender is all things relaxing… #EssentialOils Click To Tweet

22:00 – Bryan was a skeptic – how do you now use them on the road on an average day?

26:40 – How would we get an experimental travel kit to try on the road?

Essential Oils are up to you and your use of them. Click To Tweet It's a little investment for a huge return Click To Tweet

30:00 – Why is Green Powder so important?

33:10 – Assessment and Book Promos

34:45 – Episode Wrap Up

Links and Resources:

Small Travel Kit – https://www.doterra.com/US/en/my-cart

Large Travel Kit – https://www.doterra.com/US/en/my-cart

Greens Powder – https://www.doterra.com/US/en/my-cart

Road Warrior Assessment

Elite Road Warrior Book

019 – How To Do More Than Survive a Trade Show on the Road

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast show notes! This week we discuss thriving, not just surviving, during trade shows and other events on the road.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

2:05 – Intro to Trade Shows and Events

3:30 – Most Common Challenges During Event Week

4:22 – What can you do to not only survive an event but really thrive?

5:45 – Road Warrior Assessment and Elite Road Warrior Book Promos

7:20 – The Three Event Realities

8:20 – Intro to the Four Thrive Plan Essentials

8:27 – #1: Sleep Schedule

8:45 – Sleep is our biggest performance enhancer on the road but it seems to become even less of a priority with a brutal morning- to – night event schedule.

We MUST prioritize sleep. Only you can take care of you. Click To Tweet "The more tired I am, the dumber I get" – Michael Hyatt Click To Tweet

11:35 – Event Tip

12:25 – An ERW knows when its time to go and is shameless about it.

12:50 – #2: Water

15:10 – You don’t have to drink everything offered to you

Get watered down, man. Click To Tweet

15:50 – #3 Meal Planning

Food is FUEL and FUEL is ENERGY Click To Tweet

18:15 – If you really care about how you perform on the road, energy will matter.

18:45 – #4: Maximize Your Breaks

You're and Elite Road Warrior and your behavior is different as a result. Click To Tweet

22:55 – Let’s Land This Plane

Resources for This Week’s Episode:
Road Warrior Assessment

Elite Road Warrior Book

Episode 003: Are You In The Exhaustion Cycle?

Welcome to episode 003 where we’ll discuss are you in the exhaustion cycle?

Here’s what is on this week’s Podcast…

So many of us are just plain tired and some completely exhausted physically, mentally, or emotionally or possibly all three!

Most people run at an unsustainable pace over a long period of time and find themselves in The Exhaustion Cycle.

If you’re interested in getting a free PDF copy of The Exhaustion Cycle, go to:

www.EnergyEdgePodcast.com/ExhaustionCycle

1:35 – Introduction to The Exhaustion Cycle

4:07 – Defining The Exhaustion Cycle

4:23 – PHASE ONE
Busy – Can’t Stop Now

This is the phase where it all begins. We get a rush being busy and often times it’s a sign of things happening.

5:11 – Busy can be good if…

5:38 – How are you when you’re busy?

6:34 – Key Takeaway – busy is not a sustainable pace

6:36 – Define Busy = little to no margin in our lives

Margin = time to breathe

Busy = I’m hurried

7:30 – My energy is dispersed (it’s all over the place and the opposite of focus

Busy, if not kept in check can very easily lead to the next phase…

8:02 – PHASE TWO
Beatdown – Can’t Take This

9:07 – Beatdown subtle feelings

10:02 – Beatdown = I’m stressed

10:13 – How people handle stress

11:50 – My energy is decreased

12:41 – PHASE THREE
Burnout – Can’t Keep Going

12:34 – Burnout = I’m done

14:04 – Analogy of rubber vs glass priority balls

15:04 – Health is usually the first ball to drop

15:17 – My energy is depleted

15:30 – Symptoms of burnout

17:47 – Review of The Exhaustion Cycle

For a copy of The Exhaustion Cycle go to: www.EnergyEdgePodcast.com/ExhaustionCycle

18:42 – Closing Thoughts

19:10 – Remake of Psalm 23

Psalm 23 revisited

The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest.

It makes me lie down only when exhausted.

It leads me into deep depression, it hounds my soul.

It leads me in circles of frenzy for busyness sake.

Even though I run frantically from task to task,

I will never get it all done, for me “ideal” is with me.

Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me.

They demand performance from me, beyond the limits of my schedule.

They anoint my head with migraines, my inbox overflows.

Surely busy, beatdown, and burnout shall follow me all the days of my life.

And I will dwell in the bonds of the exhaustion cycle forever.

-Living on Purpose by Tom and Christine Sine and altered in key places by Bryan Paul Buckley

20:30 – Actionable Items (What Now?)

1. Determine which PHASE you’re currently in the most right now – chances are one phase is more prominent to you than the other two.

2. Determine how effective your work and your life are when you live in The Exhaustion Cycle – you may be getting things done, but as effective as they could be? And what is it doing to you in the long run? And are you dropping any of the glass important balls you’re juggling right now?

22:28 – Next episode preview (004) interview with co-host Treva Yaccino to understand her backstory