Name: Lance Willett's review of The Art of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life by Ari Meisel
Item: The Art of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life
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Author: Lance Willett

Ari Meisel

At the peak of his career and success, Ari Meisel nearly killed himself from exhaustion and overwork. He had to make a choice: he could let his "success" destroy him physically and mentally, or he could find a better way to live. He spent the next few years redesigning his life from scratch. Ultimately he found the way to reduce his workload by 80%, while actually increasing results and success. Furthermore, he could spend time on what matters most: his family. "This book describes his method. " Using Meisel's revolutionary Optimize, Automate, Outsource approach, you will learn how to take almost anything you do and make it work smarter, instead of harder. Modern methods like the 80/20 rule, the 3 D's, and multi-platform repurposing let you build a high-powered, traditional-style "success factory" that only requires one employee to run. Less work, more results, more happiness.

The Art of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

David Reina

Lance Willett

Similar in style and content to Tim Ferriss's "4-Hour Workweek," the main idea is to outsource, automate, and optimize as much as possible to run your business so you can avoid spending all your time working.

My favorite tip is for email overwhelm. Separate the essential from the optional: if an email has “Unsubscribe” in it, automatically skip the inbox, and filter them out or archive/delete directly.

Inbox zero is not an email problem, it’s a decision making problem. 

Save your decision making for bigger things such as deeper and more creative work.

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