In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how you can be efficient like your car. Together they discuss what you do to be efficient with your car, transfer over to your life. Including: • Don't overheat your car or your life • How slowing down helps you to go faster when you need it • Don't get too close to others (tailgating) even if you want to, kt means trouble • Why slowing down helps you top avoid bad things in life • Locating the energy suckers in your life and getting rid of them • The impor...
Jul 22, 2024•6 min•Ep 370•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how you can make the most of your summer nights. Together they look at: • Realizing that you only have a limited number of summers left (sad but true) • Maximizing your summer by maximizing what you can do at night • Later sunsets give you more time for more things • Having a list of things you want to do at your fingertips means less decision making • Recognizing the speed of summer and working with it Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hos...
Jul 15, 2024•6 min•Ep 369•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss how to make summer mornings work for you. Together they look at: • The magic of hydration • Maximizing your whole day (since the days are longer) • The power of morning Mindfulness (and it's as easy as making your bed) • Mixing up your routine to get more of the Outside Inside you immediately Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Jul 08, 2024•6 min•Ep 368•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at ways to be efficient when waiting for things that are out of our control. Together they discuss: • Tom Petty was completely right • Lee is waiting for someone to make a decision and what he is doing about it • The importance of remember that we can only control what we can control • Remembering that we can control our environment and our mental health • How writing down your options allows you to get out of your brain Edited at Studio D, Wanye Duncan, produ...
Jul 01, 2024•6 min•Ep 367•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss how to look at perfectionism differently so it doesn't slow you down. Together they look at: • How the 80-20 rule applies to getting things done • Doing the best you can with what you have • Why you should never go to Lee for brain surgery • The importance of knowing the time and place for being perfect • The magic of the words "for now" Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Jun 23, 2024•6 min•Ep 366•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at the art of the comeback. Whether you're having a bad day, bad week, or a bad month, you can get yourself back on track by doing some of the following: • Ask for help to get you over the finish line • Admitting you aren't in the best place and asking for help • Learning the messages that failure teaches you • Running your own race and the power of small wins Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com...
Jun 17, 2024•6 min•Ep 365•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss building shortcuts into your activities. Together they look at: • Why Lee has mixed feelings about shortcuts • How Phil Collins used his shortcuts to write music that the brass players could understand (eventually) • How shortcuts make it easier to get started on a project • What shortcuts can look like and how to use them • The power of a 10-minute burst of energy Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGood...
Jun 10, 2024•5 min•Ep 364•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how the idea of van living can be applied to your life to make you more efficient. Together, they look at: • How to combat the natural law that states: "Stuff expands to fille the space available." • Understanding that the less stuff you have, the less time it takes to maintain it. • Looking at ways to live a simplified life in a complicated world • Eliminating tools that accomplish only one thing in your kitchen and your life • How reducing your choices an...
Jun 03, 2024•6 min•Ep 363•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at how you can find the best place to be hyperfocused. Together they look at: • What physical therapy taught Ellen about hyperfocus • The importance of examining where you focus best -- and recreating it • Lee shares how he recreated airplane time • Why hyperfocus is important Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
May 27, 2024•6 min•Ep 362•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Ellen and Lee look at how leveraging fun can make you more efficient. Together they look at: • Why its hard to be efficient in the summer • The easy combination that will help you get more done • Why watching tv at the gym makes the most sense for Lee • Setting up your office in unexpected, but fun places • How gamification can make it easier to get things done Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
May 20, 2024•6 min•Ep 361•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Lee and Ellen look at easy ways you can use your cellphone camera to be more efficient. Together they look at: • How making folders and notebooks can make your life easier • The various things in your home that you can photograph and why • Making these notebooks work with you when you are traveling Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
May 13, 2024•5 min•Ep 360•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at taking ordinary things and using them as a way to be more efficient. Together they look at: • Lee's traveling hack (and why it involves socks) • Building stations around your house to keep things all in one place • How what you wear to bed can make you more efficient • Do you have efficiency hacks you'd like to share? Send them to us! Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber . com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
May 06, 2024•5 min•Ep 359•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at why effectiveness is always better than efficiency, and what difference it can make in achieving your goals. Together, they look at: • The definition of effectiveness and why it matters • The one question you should always be asking yourself • The point system that Lee uses to ensure he is effective with his time • Why it's important to choose effectiveness over efficiency Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and ww...
Apr 29, 2024•5 min•Ep 358•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at ways you can make your phone more efficient. Together, they discuss: • The simple thing you can do each week to make your phone run better • Why it's important to clear out your apps regularly • Taking the time to remove the things that slow your phone down • The day-by-day way to reduce your photos Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Apr 22, 2024•5 min•Ep 357•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Lee and Ellen look at how using the Eisenhower Matrix can make it easier to know what you should be working on. Together they look at: • What an Eisenhower Matrix is (click here for a printable version of a Matrix.) • Why putting your tasks through the matrix allows you to be more efficient • The questions you should be asking yourself regarding your work • How to make sure what you work on is important to you (and not urgent to others) • What happens if a task doesn't have a dea...
Apr 15, 2024•6 min•Ep 356•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee discuss the importance of strong focus when it comes to achieving your goals. Together they look at: • Ellen's story of a serious fall and how focus was essential in achieving the outcome when wanted • The importance of ignoring the things that don't help you • How airplane flights help Lee with his focus • Knowing what's important to your outcome and prioritizing Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com...
Apr 08, 2024•7 min•Ep 355•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at different kitchen tools and appliances you can use to be more efficient. Together they look at: (Please note we are not affiliated with ANY of these links!) • The importance of making chores fun • A quick way to separate eggs by dunking them • How to make slicing hard boiled eggs easier • The best way to hard boil eggs so their shells just slide off • Lee's favorite new tool for timing pasta • The easy way to use olive oil that's not messy (or difficult to ...
Apr 01, 2024•7 min•Ep 354•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss how to deal with Time-Suckers. Together they look at: • How Time-Sucker affected Lee trying to prepare for a presentation • Simple guidelines to follow with people who don't respect your time • The importance of establishing boundaries in all parts of your life • Why putting yourself first works most of the time Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Mar 25, 2024•7 min•Ep 353•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss how taking five minutes to do something can save you in the long term. Together they look at: • Lee got hacked -- and the FBI and FTC are now involved • The importance of taking the time to make small changes (passwords anyone?) can save you a lot of time in the future • Accepting that sometimes we have to use pain to push us to do things • Paying attention when things seem too good to be true Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.Le...
Mar 18, 2024•7 min•Ep 352•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at the efficiency of doing little bits of "dirty work" every month. together they discuss: • How doing your taxes can be easier with month dirty work • The power of doing the small things consistently • Leveraging the "good" power of Artificial Intelligence to be more efficient • Letting a machine take care of your necessary unemotional tasks • Not using AI for creative endeavors Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and ww...
Mar 11, 2024•7 min•Ep 351•Transcript available on Metacast Our 350th episode! And it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't followed through on an idea we had almost 7 years ago. In this episode, we talk about: • Celebrating the smaller milestones on the way to your goals • Not listening to your own excuses for why you can't do something (hate to say it, but you do lie to yourself more than you should. We all do.) • What Lee has figured out about getting things done by finishing the first draft of his 26th book • The importance of having support and a part...
Mar 04, 2024•8 min•Ep 350•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at why it's more efficient to be the small fish in a big pond (so to speak). Together they look at: • The importance of being around people who inspire you • How Quentin Tarantino inspired Lee to push himself • Learning to push your limits by being around others • Why being the smartes person in the room inhibits your growth • Being open to trying a new approach to improve yourself Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and...
Feb 26, 2024•6 min•Ep 349•Transcript available on Metacast in this episode, Lee and Ellen look at the power of doing (and possibly being) just a little bit extra. Together they look at: • Do what you say you're going to do, but then do it better • Improving your impact on others • How you can add the extra oomph to someone's day (and why you should) • Picking something small (and extra) to make others happier • Why this one small thing has a big effect Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Feb 12, 2024•6 min•Ep 347•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at the efficiency of being boring. Together they look at: • Why being boring is efficient • The boring thing that Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs both did to minimize brain drain • How having a boring system can make you efficient • What happens when you build a boring routine for yourself • Leveraging the power of being boring to succeed at work Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com...
Feb 05, 2024•6 min•Ep 346•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at an easy way to schedule your year so that you can accomplish everything you want. Together they look at: • Breaking your year into seasons and scheduling your goals • Schedule according to the weather, your mood, your energy • Use the shortness of seasons to motivate you • Pay attention to where your time is going -- and use guilty pleasures as rewards Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Jan 29, 2024•6 min•Ep 345•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how you can easily get started building your personal momentum in 2024. Together they discuss: • The one thing you can do every morning to get things rolling • Using your phone to help you achieve your goals • Lee's plan to make 2024 the year where he is more helpful • The tiny way to start organizing your life • Breaking your goals down into small, momentum-building bites Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.E...
Jan 22, 2024•6 min•Ep 344•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Ellen and Lee debate how "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" affects productivity. Here's a hint: they don't agree! Together they discuss: • Keeping projects out in the open so they are reminded to do them (Ellen is not a fan) • The importance of hiding things that are distracting (Ellen is a big fan) • Having all projects available at all times and going from one to another throughout the day (Definitely Lee's deal) • The power of keeping a Future List (or Future Folders) • Why experim...
Jan 15, 2024•7 min•Ep 343•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at having a word to guide your year and how it can make you more efficient. Together they look at: • The "Yes" year • Why making deeper connections is important • One of the benefits of Social Media • Combining activities to make saying Yes easier • The power of connections on creativity Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com...
Jan 08, 2024•7 min•Ep 342•Transcript available on Metacast Happy 2024! In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss what 2024 will look like when it comes to efficiency. Together they look at: • Planning your 2024 with the help of a quick 1-page planner from Lee. Download yours free: https://www.leesilber.com/free-stuff • Predictions for the new year • Increased efficiency in the workplace (and less in-person meetings) • What we'll see less of -- and what we'll see more of in 2024 -- and why it matters • Happy New Year to all our listeners! Edited at Studio D...
Jan 01, 2024•7 min•Ep 341•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how you can increase your efficiency by using your senses. Together they look at: • How different work spaces affect Lee's productivity • The importance of paying attention to sights, smells, sounds • The role temperate plays in efficiency • Why clothing matters • The payoff to paying attention to your sense in different environments Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan producer Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com...
Dec 25, 2023•7 min•Ep 340•Transcript available on Metacast 
