In this event, you’ll learn

Why you should track your time and how IKEA can help you improve the way you spend it

How a virtual assistant can change your life

What you can do to stop scrambling together multiple vitamin boxes every time you travel

Why self-awareness is a crucial part of nailing your workweek

How to avoid scheduling meetings (it takes 7 emails on average)

What you can do to eliminate errands

How Ari gave his nephew an awesome gift even though he was in New York and his nephew was in LA

What you can do to stay on top of your finances with a single app

The ultimate productivity secret that no app can help you with

About the Author

Ari Meisel has turned his hobby—optimizing productivity—into a popular framework and consulting service for automating and outsourcing life’s tasks. His “Less Doing” philosophy continues to grow in popularity and has become a platform for general efficiency consulting to businesses, entrepreneurs, and everyone else who could use a little more time in their life. He lives on Long Island with his wife, three children, and two dogs.

Overview

Whether you’re a teacher or an executive, the strategies in Ari Meisel’s book “Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier” offer an extensive approach to reducing and optimizing your work to make more time for the better things in life. In 2006, after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, Meisel made the life-changing decision to focus on his health and work smarter, not harder. He now holds the following titles: best-selling author, productivity expert, CEO, real estate developer and green building consultant. While running multifaceted businesses and parenting three children, it became clear that Meisel simply needed more time to do more the “Less Doing, More Living” principle was born.

Optimizing, automating, and outsourcing are the three keys to reduce a large workload and clear up mental space. These keys apply to any problem area that may occur, whether at work or at home. To optimize a workload, Meisel suggests breaking a task down to the bare minimum requirements, simplifying it and eliminating any unnecessary details. Once a task is optimized, the next step is to automate. Meisel suggests using one of the many apps and websites he includes in the book to get the task completed without human involvement. The last step is to outsource. Outsourcing involves handing over remaining tasks to a generalist or specialist. With these three keys, no task should go undone.

The three keys to Less Doing are:

Optimize

Automate

Outsource

For any challenge, the first thing to do is optimize it. Break it down to its bare minimum, simplify it, and eliminate everything that’s not completely necessary. Once you’ve boiled the task down to its essentials, the goal is to break what’s left into bite-sized tasks that can be replicated and possibly delegated.

Nine fundamental principles:

The 80/20 Rule

Creating an “External Brain”

Customization

Choose Your Own Workweek

Stop Running Errands

Finances

Organization

Batching

Wellness