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071 – Why You May Not Be Performing at Your Best While Working From Home

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 071 show notes! This week on the podcast is a discussion on the three elements to a successful work from home day in preparation for future road life.

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What You Will Learn In This Episode:

CLEAR PLAN
- Key Phrase – Think Planned Priorities
  - 3 Main Parts of the Work from Home Plan
    1. Energy Habits
    2. Key3
    3. Schedule
BLOCK AND TACKLE
- Key Phrase – Think Planned Road Blocks
  - In the business world – blocking out a specific time to work on one specific task
- 4 Specific Time Blocks from Start Finishing
  1. Focus Time Blocks
    - Critical – No distractions!
  2. Social Time Blocks
    - Critical – Spread throughout the day
  3. Administrative Time Blocks
    - Critical – Batch these together
  4. Recovery Time Blocks
    - Critical – Do not underestimate!
ENERGY PACING
- Key Phrase – Think Planned Energy Boosts
  - Energyology – personal study of your own energy
- Pacing is asking the right questions:
  1. When is my energy highest within the day?
  2. Why is my energy low right now?
  3. Is there anything I can do to change my energy level?
  4. How can I match my tasks with my energy?
- Pacing is making key changes:
  1. Change of position
  2. Change of location
  3. Change of activity

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069 – Three Ways to Maximize Food and Drink to Increase Your Work Day Energy

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 069 show notes! This episode is a focus on the food and drink we consume and how to leverage it for a more productive workday.

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What You Will Learn In This Episode:

The road exposes our habits, not enhances them.
The MTHC (Make The Healthiest Choice) Formula
1) CONTINUALLY HYDRATE
- Key Phrase: Early & Often
- 4 ways to add more water
  1. Drink Water the Moment You Wake Up
  2. Place a Water Bottle On Your Work Space
  3. Add Natural Flavors to Your Water
  4. Track Your Daily Water Intake
2) Clean & Green
- Key Phrase: Add First Then Reverse
- CLEAN – Megan Blacksmith (Zesty Ginger) – “grows on a plant or eats a plant, but is not manufactured in a plant.”
  - 2 ways to be clean with every meal:
    1. Less Ingredients – The fewer the ingredients on the label the better
    2. Less Processed – The fewer steps involved to make, the better.
      - https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition-you-asked/what-does-processed-food-actually-mean
- GREEN – more leafy greens and dark vegetables
3) Snack Strategically
- Key Phrase: Planned Energy
- Snack strategically with the purpose of providing your body energy.
  - Good purposeful snack: Mixed Nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans)

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064 -A Hypnotizing Conversation with Keynote Speaker Wayne Lee

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 064 show notes! This week on the podcast is an interview with a business traveler with decades of experience on the road as a literal road warrior.

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What You Will Learn In This Episode:

MOVE: What does exercise look like for an average day on the road?
- “When you’re moving the body you’re programming the mind“
FUEL: What do you find yourself eating and drinking on the road?
- “It’s about lifestyle, how do I balance it?”
REST: How much sleep do you get on the road and what is the quality of your rest?
- “If you don’t sleep you’re gonna die”
- Sleep = resetting ourselves
- Everything we do is a form of hypnosis (self talk, other people, etc.)
PERFORM: How do you keep your energy up to ensure highest level performance?
- MINDSET: be willing (intention) to do whatever it takes, regardless of how you feel
DEVELOP: How do you recover if you’ve had to push your energy?
- most important = sleep
CONNECT: How do you stay connected with those back home?
- “We have technology that allows us…to see people across the world face-to-face”

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Wayne Lee

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057 – The Biggest Misconception to Master the Business Travel Life

Welcome to the Elite Road Warrior Podcast Episode 057 show notes! This week on the podcast is an honest discussion about the biggest misconception in the business travel life.

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What You Will Learn In This Episode:

The two types of drive:
1. Personal Drive (Inner)
2. Road Drive (Outer)
The Travel Triangle (Airport, Board Room, Hotel Room)
The biggest misconception to master the business travel life: it’s not only about work.
My personal complete and utter blowout
The impact of the road on family and friends.
- Kids feeling dad (or mom’s) distance physically and emotionally.
The Three Focus Areas of the Elite Road Warrior
1. Work
2. Health
3. Home Life
The importance of work (Energy Habit #4: Perform!)
Important questions to consider:
- If you lose your health, how much harder is work or how much does work matter?
- If you lose your family, how much is work affected?
When I had my health in an optimal place and my relationships back home were strong, my work improved.
Only YOU can take care of YOUR health.
How to take just a couple of minutes to stop being the check-in guy or girl and became a connect-in guy or girl who leverages the road to grow relationships in ways you wouldn’t at home.
Take care of your family intentionally, thoughtfully, and creatively to invest into their lives.
- Remember, your family has a choice whether to connect or reconnect with you if you’ve been physically and emotionally distant.
Hope/Challenge of this Episode: a wake-up call to see how you’re personally doing in the three focus areas.
- You may be doing great in one, but what about the other two?
- Good on two but what about the other one?

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