MARK STRUCZEWSKI

Working from home can be a challenge if you don't set yourself up for success. Here are four big ideas you can be productive and work from home.

Jordan Paris is a 21-year-old author, web-developer, podcast host, and former college athlete seen in Men’s Health, Yahoo Finance, and Nasdaq as a beacon of light for inspiring people from all walks of life. Jordan's podcast, Growth Mindset University, is ranked #26 in the iTunes Education category. On the show, he interviews young up-and-comers and the most successful people on planet earth like James Altucher, Kevin Rudolf, David Meltzer, Mark Manson, Rachel Starr, and Dan Lok.

On this episode with Jordan Paris:

• Dwelling versus designing your life
• Making decisions without hesitation
• Growing as you go
• Confidence

How to improve your productivity with ODAE. 

What now? 

ODAE!

ODAE stands for outsource, delegate, automate and eliminate. 

Here's an exercise that give my clients, my audiences and that I'm sharing with you now.

I want you to grab a notebook and for two days, I want you to write down everything you do over the course of the day in your business. 

Why two days? Because no two days are the same. And by doing this exercise for a second day, you're going catch those outliers that you didn't catch on the first day. 

If you write something down on day one, you don't have to write it down again for day two. Do this exercise for two days. 

Then I want you to set your notebook aside for a whole day. I want you to pretend it doesn't even exist. Just go about your day as normal on day three. 

On day four, I want you to schedule a minimum of one hour as a gift to yourself to go through this process of going through every single item on your list that you...

Jamie Irvine has over 20-years experience in business as an operations manager, sales account manager and an entrepreneur. He started a contracting business with $700 in 2009 and sold that business in 2016. Jamie is the host of the Build a Better Business Podcast.

On this episode, Mark and Jaime talk about what they found worked and what didn't as they seek to grow their brands, businesses and podcasts. It's an off-the-cuff, 2 guys and a mic type of show!

Working distraction-free can be a challenge. In this episode, I give you 9 ways to do so. Some of which are applicable for your phone and the others are for your work environment.

Jessica Lacy is a Colorado grown, certified life coach passionate about people living a productive, restful life. She believes those two things can coexist. Jessica supports individuals in creating sustainable rhythms of nurture and achievement, so they can create more of what they love and actually have the space to enjoy it. She’s the host of the Love Your Whole Body podcast where she has counter cultural conversations about how to love your life more through loving your body.

On this episode with Jessica Lacy:

• Being able to accept not doing things the way others do
• Success has many faces
• What are you attaching your success to?
• Clarity forces movement
• The power of being in alignment 

Her website

In this clip from a presentation I gave way back in November 2016, I talk about how you have plenty of hours in the day, intentionality, leaking time and how to maintain control at work.

Reminders are very important for your productivity. And there are plenty of awesome reminders available but I recently started using a unique way to be reminded.

Violette de Ayala is a Cuban-American serial and social Entrepreneur, Founder of FemCity®, and virtual mentor to over 20,000 women. Violette has been quoted in Success, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Yahoo Small Business, Business Insider News as a small business expert. Violette has also been seen in featured campaigns in People, InStyle, Real Simple magazines. She served as part of The White House: Women Environmental Leaders Program and was a commissioned Keynote speaker for Accenture’s International Women's Month Event, the SBA Regional Women's Conference, and Luxury Brand Partners. FemCity has been seen in Gilt, Vogue, AP, Mashable and Fast Company and has over 100 locations in the US, Canada and the Islands. 

On this episode with Violette de Ayala:

• Happiness and productivity are tied
• What small business owners do that prevent their productivity
• How leaders help their people be more productive
• The power of consistency 

In 1980, Jack Nicholson was in the horror film, The Shining.

If you're not familiar with the film, The Shining is about Jack Torrance (Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Wintering over with Jack are his wife Wendy Torrance (Duvall) and young son Danny Torrance (Lloyd). Danny possesses "the shining", psychic abilities that enable him to see into the hotel's horrific past. The hotel's cook, Dick Hallorann (Crothers), also has this and is able to telepathically communicate with Danny. The hotel had a previous winter caretaker who went insane and killed his family and himself. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel, placing his wife and son in danger (Wikipedia).

I was 15 when this film came out and when I first saw it, it scared the crap...