Optimze, Automate, and Outsource Everything In Your Life: How to Make Email, IFTTT, and Virtual Assistants Your Ultimate Productivity Weapons

by Ari R. Meisel

I teach The Art of Less Doing, a framework for productivity I developed to help people optimize, automate, and outsource everything in their lives and be more effective. I'm constantly writing about new ways to save you time and get more done at my Less Doing blog. Email is one of the greatest productivity tools in existence, once you master it. You'll be able to do more and experience a level of calm that comes from having control in an otherwise overwhelming environment. IFTTT is an automation website that gets your various web services working for you, instead of the other way around. All of those tasks that you say "just take a minute" but you do them dozens of time each day, can be completely automated out of your life. Once you've optimized and automated a process, if there's anything left over, you can look at outsourcing it to specialists or generalists. This book will give you the resources you need to make email, automation, and outsourcing your keys to great productivity and effectiveness.

56 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2014

About the author

Ari Meisel is a self described, “Overwhelmologist” who helps entrepreneurs who have opportunity in excess of what their infrastructure can handle, to optimize, automate, and outsource everything in their business, so they can make themselves replaceable and scale their business.

Ari is the Founder of Less Doing, author of the best-selling book, “The Art of Less Doing”, and its sequel, the forthcoming “The Replaceable Founder”, coming this September.

He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, an Ironman, and a devoted husband to Anna and father to four children, Ben, 6, Sebastien and Lucas, 4 and Chloe, 2.

When Ari Meisel was diagnosed with a severe case of the incurable digestive ailment known as Crohn’s disease, he quickly found himself in the hospital and soon thereafter on a host of medications. After hitting a truly low point, he decided it was time to take matters into his own hands. Putting himself on a strict regiment of yoga, healthy eating, nutritional supplements and intense exercise, Meisel not only beat back the symptoms, he was in fact eventually declared cured of his "incurable" disease.

One of the outcomes of this log and difficult journey was the deep realization that he wanted to live his precious gift of healthy life much more fully. He quickly saw how much of his time was wasted by tasks that could just as easily be done by others. Thus was born his blog, the art of Less Doing, so that we all might have more living.