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Start loving Mondays! Courtney, Blake, and Verbs give you practical tips and proven strategies for increasing your focus so you can be more productive than ever before. Based on the proven Full Focus method used in the Full Focus Planner™ they'll help you banish distractions and get the right stuff done so you can start loving Mondays again. They also speak with guests and listeners who share their own productivity tips to help you make the most of every day. It's the most productive podcast ...
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Business Bootcamp Podcast is made for small business owners. My name is Mike Andes. I started college at the age of 13 with full intention of going to medical school. I went to school for an MBA and now I own a landscaping company, an Anytime Fitness gym, and 3 online businesses. I share my highs, lows, and experiences being an entrepreneur. You can learn from my mistakes and identify with the day-to-day struggles of a small business owner. Call in or ask a question online and get concrete a ...
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The Elite Advisor Blueprint®: A Podcast for Financial Advisors
The Elite Advisor Blueprint® is a podcast dedicated to sharing the "blueprint for success" in the independent financial advising world. Based on Brad's decade of experience consulting the top advisors in the US, that could mean doubling your revenue, doubling your vacation, or BOTH! Continuing the successful formula of idea sharing that led Advisors Excel to be the #1 player in its industry, Brad distills the best advice from top thought leaders and applies it to the world of independent fin ...
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Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners
Marketing Your Business is a podcast dedicated to all things marketing. It’s a behind the scenes look at the marketing tactics and strategies that lead to a loyal following, growing sales and a business that gives you (the business owner) more freedom in your everyday life. Each episode will be short, punchy and packed with takeaways to help you get what you have, in front of a lot more people. It’s about leveraging your marketing to build a business that is high in profit, low in stress and ...
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Running a Business with the Full Focus Planner
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If running a business was easy, then everybody would do it. However, being a business owner means juggling a seemingly endless array of tasks with endless deadlines. In today's episode, Blake and Verbs share three ways that the Full Focus System takes the complicated life business owner life and provides clarity and peace of mind. In this episode y…
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We're all busy. One day you were just some person with few responsibilities and then, seemingly the next day, you're entire calendar is booked and you still have an overflowing to-do list. In order to accomplish all of this, we're going to need energy. The best way to get energy is through taking time off to focus on the people, activities, and thi…
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Why is forming new habits - the good ones, at least - so hard to do? We've often heard that it take 21 days to develop a new habit, but personal experience tells many of us that it takes much longer than three weeks to truly install the kinds of habits that we feel will make our lives happier, healthier, and more productive. It's important to under…
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Very Simple Strategies to Banish Distractions
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Our modern world is full of distractions. For example, on average, a person will look at their phone 350 times a day. 350 times in a day! If you sleep 8 hours a night, that works out to almost once every two minutes. How are you supposed to reach your goals if your rhythm is always interrupted by a notification on your phone, a Slack message from y…
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Three Reasons You Find Yourself in the Distraction Zone
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What is your go-to task when you're supposed to be doing another more important task? Is it organizing your desk? Checking Slack messages? Folding laundry? Whatever your go-to task is, it will lead you to the same place: The Distraction Zone. This is a concept first described in Michael Hyatt's book, Free to Focus. It describes the area where you'r…
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We've all been there: You volunteer to help out with an extra thing at work or you tell a friend that you'll help them over the weekend. Then, as the event itself approaches, you realize that you simply do not have the time or energy and you shouldn't have agreed to do this in the first place. Well, there's good news: There are times when you can g…
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You Are Who You're With: Stories of Achievement
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We've all heard the phrase, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." But, how does that apply to goal achievement and productivity? In this episode, Blake and Verbs share stories of how they changed their environments to achieve their own goals. Blake tells a story from his college days while Verbs tells a much more re…
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Spring is the perfect time of year to look at your priorities. Think of it as a Spring Cleaning for your priorities! When you spend a minute looking at what is important to you and what isn’t, you can streamline your tasks and see a clearer picture of where you’re spending your time. A ‘Not-to-do List’ is where you take a list of activities or comm…
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When we want to get something accomplished, we tend to think of skills, habits, or tools that we can add to help us reach our goal. However, often times, the real trick to goal achievement isn't what you can add, but what you can subtract. Blake, Courtney, and Verbs offer three different categories (life domains) that you can ask yourself: "What sh…
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Have you ever been in the middle of a difficult week only to have an urgent situation added to your plate? In those moments, it’s so easy to freak out. It feels impossible to get everything done. While it might feel counterintuitive, the real trick to accomplishing more is stepping back and making space to get the important tasks done. Verbs, Court…
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Know Your Enemy: Defeating Your Productivity Obstacles
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The old saying "Know Your Enemy" is derived from Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War - a Chinese military treatise that dates back to the fifth century BC. While it's doubtful that Sun Tzu had your Daily Big 3 in mind (but, maybe he did), we can use that ancient advice to battle the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving our goals. Courtney, Blake…
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The “messy middle” is a place where we’ve come too far to go back but we can’t yet see what’s up ahead - and it’s normal. In fact, if you haven’t hit the messy middle yet, you probably will soon. The messy middle is typically where we feel we’ve hit the end of our own resources. It's at this moment that you have to start getting creative and asking…
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2 Reasons to Trade Remembering for Writing
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Let's face it: We have a tendency to be overconfident about what we can remember. We think we'll remember the important ideas from that meeting or the date of that event or the email that you have to send. By simply relying on our memory to get us through our lives, we put some of our most important goals and priorities at risk. Blake, Courtney, an…
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Using Your Enneagram Type to Maximize Your Planner
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Understanding your personality type is a helpful tool to unlocking ways to become more productive and satisfied. Of course, the Full Focus Planner is a great tool for everybody, but in this episode, we break down every Enneagram personality type and how you can leverage the planner to achieve your best results. Courtney talks with Terrie Power. Ter…
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This is the last episode in our three-part look at the Weekly Preview. We previously talked about the Weekly Big 3 and the After Action Review. Our focus this time is on planning the upcoming week. This is the moment where you take all of the lessons learned from your After Action Review and combine those with the Weekly Big 3 tasks that you've alr…
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Better Together: Involve People to Boost Goal Achievement
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Because goals are something that we often set for ourselves, we forget that we don't have to achieve them alone. Reaching out to family, friends, colleagues, or mentors can provide you with valuable feedback and motivation that can push you through the messy middle and get to the finish line. But, in order to get that support, you have to be honest…
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Change Your Mindset & Accomplish Your Goals
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Megan Hyatt Miller, CEO of Full Focus, drops by to explain why your mindset is maybe the most important element of achieving your goals. You can do everything right when it comes to writing a goal. It can follow every step of the SMARTER Goal framework and it can be recorded down on your Goal Detail page in your Full Focus Planner. However, if your…
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Avoid Repeating Mistakes: Weekly Preview Pt. 2
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As we continue our exploration of the Weekly Preview, this week we turn our attention towards the After Action Review (AAR). Completing your AAR is a critical step in building momentum towards accomplishing your goals, but you have to make sure you think critically as you fill it out. In this episode, Courtney and Verbs talk you through the four qu…
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What Matters This Week?: Weekly Preview Pt. 1
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The Weekly Preview is essential to the Full Focus System and it's one of our users' favorite tools. In order to really dig into who and why it works, we're starting a three-part miniseries all about the Weekly Preview. First up: Setting your Weekly Big 3. While this actually happens at the end of your Weekly Preview, it is perhaps the most importan…
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The Best Tip to Keep Goals Front and Center
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We’re well into January and might be starting to feel some friction on our goal journeys. After a couple of weeks of the new year, good intention and effort alone are no longer enough to see your goals through. Now is the perfect time to let your processes and strategies carry you forward so you can build some momentum. Verbs and Courtney talk abou…
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So, you have your goals set and you've figured out what the next steps are to help you start moving towards those goals. What's next? Well, now is the time to start focusing on the foundational tool of the Full Focus Planner: The Daily Big 3. Even if you've used your planner for years, it's always good to refresh your memory and build upon your own…
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Start with Simple: Building Goal Momentum
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Happy New Year! It's 2023 and it's time to make sure that you've set yourself up for success. Every year, in order to start off on the right foot, it's important to take a step back and plan your year with some very simple actions that will build up speed and propel you all the way until December 31 with a list of completed goals. Courtney and Blak…
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Slow Down to Speed Up: Goal-Setting During Crazy Seasons
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Sometimes the quickest way isn't the best way. While it would be very fast to simply write a list of goals on December 31st and then just hope that they work out, the research proves that it's not an effective way to reach your goals. The Full Focus System is built on the idea that you have to slow down at the beginning (and periodically throughout…
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So often the areas we want to set goals are areas we’ve tried to set goals before - and failed. We’ve become discouraged. We’ve lost hope. We don’t want to try again. Along the way, we’ve turned those "failures" into limiting beliefs. We say things like, "I simply can't reach that goal." But the truth is that it's the limiting beliefs themselves th…
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Give Me a Verb: The Grammar of Goal-Setting
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As a kid, did you ever wonder, "When will I need to know what a verb is?" Well, the answer to that question is: today. How you write your goals is a crucial element of your ability to achieve them. A poorly-worded goal can leave you feeling adrift and like you've failed. A correctly-worded goal not only helps you accomplish what you've set out to d…
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