“It takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone,” -Ken PettyEek, oftentimes it can feel challenging to ask for support! Why is that? We all know the sense of relief that occurs when others are glad to support our requests. This is the 4th pillar in our 9 Pillars of Productivity series.Sometimes it feels like asking for help makes us appear weak or stupid, we don’t know who to ask, believe we have to do it all, or no one can do it as fast or well as we can. When none of those are the truth at all. They’re simply limiting beliefs and those limiting beliefs about not being able and/or willing to ask for support impacts the ability to grow your business faster and to improve productivity.The truth is we cannot do it all and we’re not good at all of it.I want to share a quick personal story about how this showed up for me. Almost every summer we try to go to Nova Scotia to visit Brad’s family outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s one of our super happy places, a place we really go for a lot of rest and renewal as well as family connection. We came back from vacation, school was getting started, the kids were in band camp, and everything was getting crazy. I’m trying to grow this business, and this was before Brad came to work with me. I was really on my own, just me and a VA. I had that moment of going, “I can’t keep doing all of this by myself, I can’t do all the shopping, I can’t do all the cooking, all the laundry.” And nobody said, “Minette, you have to do this.” It was just those were the things that I took on.So what happens when you try to everything by yourself? You instantly get into burnout, overwhelmed, you find yourself working nights and weekends, sacrificing time with family, not taking a vacation for years on end.I realize I just needed to ask for support.As usual, we were walking on the beach (we tend to do a lot of these conversations walking) and I said, “I need help.” And that was probably three or four years ago, and so everybody has nights that they cook, Brad and I share the grocery shopping, and for a while, we had a personal assistant which we loved. Asking for support is one way to manage energy as well as set clear boundaries, which we discuss in previous episodes.In The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, which is a terrific read, the author talks about how we all have 4 zones of competency. Four zones are: zone of incompetence, zone of competence, zone of excellence, and your zone of genius. And the goal is to spend as much time as possible in your zone of genius. This requires lots of support Author Michael Gerber wrote in The E-Myth about how the entrepreneurial myth is: that we are all great at all aspects of building a business, which is just flat out wrong. Asking for help will allow your business to grow much faster.Brad and I share 3 key takeaways for asking for support in today’s podcast. These are keys that we’ve implemented in our own business, which has allowed us to grow much faster. Listen to the full episode on asking for support.Take the Unique Productivity Style QuizOnce You Know Your Productivity Style You Can Learn The Best Way To Become More Productive In Your Creative Business.Take the Quiz today and get your results!IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:Why we don’t ask for help & supportWhat happens when you try to do everything yourselfHow asking for support will allow your business to grow fasterLINKS:The Big Leap by Gay HendricksThe E-Myth by Michael Gerberhttps://youtu.be/xGIsT7_bihMYou can also subscribe to this podcast on our Youtube channel.TranscriptShow Transcript (5,320 More Words)Minette Riordan:              And one of the reasons that we see so many of our clients feeling overwhelmed and burnt out is because they’re not asking for support. They think they have to do it all on their own. Have you ever said to yourself I don’t have enough time?Brad Dobson:                     I am so overwhelmed.Minette Riordan:              I need more clarity.Brad Dobson:                     I don’t know how to do this.Minette Riordan:              My to-do list is miles long.Brad Dobson:                     I’m exhausted.Minette Riordan:              There’s got to be a better way.Brad Dobson:                     Hi there, I’m Brad.Minette Riordan:              And I’m Minette. Not only have we said all of these things ourselves, but we’ve heard our community of creative entrepreneurs say them over and over again.Brad Dobson:                     That’s why we’ve created the Structure and Flow podcast. I’m structure.Minette Riordan:              And I’m flow and this is the productivity podcast for creative entrepreneurs.Brad Dobson:                     We believe that doing more and working harder are not the solution to your productivity challenges.Minette Riordan:              We believe in more play, more fun, and more profit. Join us as we explore the interplay between structure and flow so that we can bring more grace and ease to your creative business.Hey everybody, welcome to episode 104, woot woot, of the Structure and Flow podcast. I’m Dr. Minette Riordan along with my husband Brad Dobson. I don’t think we even said our names on the last podcast.Brad Dobson:                     That’s alright, they knew who we are.Minette Riordan:              They know who we are. We hope they know who we are.Brad Dobson:                     So today we’re going to tell you the one thing, the one thing that you want to do to increase your productivity fast. That’s quite a hook.Minette Riordan:              It is a hook and it’s true, and we both know it’s true, and yet we didn’t say it was an easy thing or a fun thing. Oh, look at your screen now, it’s really pretty.Brad Dobson:                     Oh my god.Minette Riordan:              So Brad’s got these awesome pictures on his screens … This is a productivity podcast and I’m like the queen of squirrels today. There’s birds flying out the window, cats meowing, and Brad has all these pretty, cool, cosmic images on the back of his screen.Brad Dobson:                     Focus, Minette.Minette Riordan:              Right now they match our shirts.Brad Dobson:                     Yes.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, I’m being a little silly. Sorry, we’re a little punchy, it’s the end of the week. It’s a Friday.Brad Dobson:                     It is that.Minette Riordan:              And one week from today, Brad leaves to drive to Colorado.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, this is the end of my biggest week in training and I’m tired and I still have a weekend to go.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, so if you don’t know what we’re talking about, Brad is about to compete … I don’t know if “compete” is the right word, participate?Brad Dobson:                     Finish.Minette Riordan:              Finish his third Ironman triathlon.Brad Dobson:                     You bet.Minette Riordan:              And it kind of is fascinating that you are so structured and organized when it comes to that, and yet, you know, this is one of the reasons we’re doing the Structure and Flow podcast is because we both have some challenges and struggles inside of our business with managing structure and staying in flow and getting enough of the right things done. Because remember we believe productivity is not amount doing more, wearing ourselves out or being busy for no reason at all, but learning how to focus in on the most important aspects of our work, so that we’re really doing quality work. Productivity, the true definition of productivity is actually about the quality of your output, not the quantity of your output.So that one thing we’re going to talk about today is, drum roll please …Brad Dobson:                     It’s support. So this is episode 104 and this is part four of our nine pillars of productivity and this pillar is support. Getting support. So what’s our quote?Minette Riordan:              Yeah, you didn’t even say the word, the hard part for you, right? Asking.Brad Dobson:                     Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.Minette Riordan:              It’s not getting support, it’s asking for support. So the fastest way to increase productivity-Brad Dobson:                     Guys don’t ask for support.Minette Riordan:              … and build your business fast, like I talked to a couple of business owners, other coaches recently, one who got to multiple six figures within three years, one that got to seven figures in the first year, and the way that they did that was by investing heavily in team from day one. And we’re going to talk more about how to do that and why you should do it, but first I’ll share the quote. “So sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.” “It takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone,” from Ken Petty. And there’s a lot of reason why we don’t ask for support.We don’t want to appear weak or stupid, we don’t know who to ask, sometimes we don’t know what to ask for. We believe we have to do it all, and this is my favorite one, no one can do it as good as I can, as fast as I can, or as well as I can.Brad Dobson:                     I think I’ve run into those last two a couple of times.Minette Riordan:              Yes, for sure. And well, I think none of us want to appear weak or stupid is a big one as well. And it feels like asking for help or asking for support is a sign of weakness, when it’s really not the truth at all. These are simply limiting beliefs and those limiting beliefs about not being able and/or willing to ask for support impact the ability to grow your business faster and to improve productivity, because, the truth is, we cannot do it all and we’re not good at all of it. What was my analogy from the last one? Juggling hats?Brad Dobson:                     Juggling hats.Minette Riordan:              Yes, as entrepreneurs, creative entrepreneurs, we are all juggling many, many hats.Brad Dobson:                     I wonder if it is also for folks that are a little more introverted like myself, whether there’s also … Well, in fact, I know this is true.Minette Riordan:              Answer your own question?Brad Dobson:                     Sometimes I just don’t want to work with more people.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, and so my answer to not wanting to work with more people is that it’s about clear processes and systems, clear expectations. Here’s the expectation for the amount of work that gets done, it’s the beauty and benefit of working with contractors in today’s marketplace. In fact, I heard an interesting statistic from our client, [Cammy Brad Dobson:                     Interesting.Minette Riordan:              So there’s more and more movement towards independent contracting rather than traditional, full-time employment, and the beauty of working with contractors is they are not in your space. So that helps from that introversion perspective a little bit, right?Brad Dobson:                     Right, right, right.Minette Riordan:              So what happens when you try to everything by yourself? You get instantly into burnout, overwhelmed, you find yourself working nights and weekends, sacrificing time with family, not taking a vacation for years on end. Brad and I were out for a walk this morning and I could tell his energy wasn’t as high as normal, and he’s like, “Man, I just haven’t had a break.” He hasn’t had a break from work, he hasn’t had a break from training, because when he’s not working, he’s training.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, it’s like a second job.Minette Riordan:              It is like a second job. How many hours this week are you putting into training?Brad Dobson:                     This will be between 16 and 17 hours of training.Minette Riordan:              It seemed like last week it was like 20 in hours.Brad Dobson:                     Oh, I don’t …Minette Riordan:              But, it’s like a lot of hours. It’s like a second job. Right? Getting this done. So you need to be effectively asking for help. There was an awesome book written, oh gosh, it’s been a long time ago, called the E-Myth by Michael Gerber. If you’ve been in business for anytime at all, you’ve probably heard about this book. It’s the entrepreneurial myth and the entrepreneurial myth is that we are all great at all aspects of building a business, which is just flat out wrong.There are so many parts of building a business that I am so incompetent at, and in the E-Myth what he talks about is that most of us started our own business from the perspective of being a technician. We have one thing we’re really great at, like being a plumber. Plumbers are really great at plumbing. Painters are really great at plumbing, at painting.Brad Dobson:                     Painting.Minette Riordan:              And writers and photographers, they’re great at their craft, but no one, and we probably put a lot of time, money, and energy in perfecting our craft, but that doesn’t mean we know how to build a business around it. So finding experts to help you is essential and a big part of the journey to success in business is getting support.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, and I definitely have seen it where, I mean, myself, where that task list is never-ending when you’re trying to do it all yourself. We’re in a fortunate position where the two of us have complementary skillsets and I’m able to do a lot of heavy lifting related to technology that we would otherwise have to pay for, but there’s always more to do. There’s always more hours to fill and so, either you’re not going to do X, Y, and Z or you’re going to ask for support to get them done.Minette Riordan:              And, in fact, we sat down as part of our planning on Tuesday morning and looking at projects that are coming up, and Brad’s Ironman, and a big launch of our creative business accelerator that we’re planning for July, and we just started taking projects off the table. Knowing that it will just split our attention and none of the projects will be done well and Brad’s highest priority right now is training for Ironman and he’s working on a re-engagement campaign for our email list. That’s all, it’s enough, it’s two huge projects in and of themselves, and it’s so easy for me, in fact, I got totally distracted this morning.So it’s Friday before Memorial Day weekend when we’re recording this, it’ll be a little while before you guys are listening to it, and I got a flash sale offer from somebody in my email, and I’m like, “Oh, that was a great idea, we should have done a flash sale. I wonder if we could turn that around.” Then I’m like, “No, Minette, no.” It’s a holiday weekend and Brad’s going to be training like a maniac all weekend. We’re fine, we don’t need to be taking advantage of every opportunity that’s out there.Brad Dobson:                     Or if we wanted to do that, we would do that by asking for support.Minette Riordan:              And planning like three months ago.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah.Minette Riordan:              To do it.Brad Dobson:                     Exactly.Minette Riordan:              Not at the last minute. So we wanted to share with you today, one concept that was really impactful for both of us. And this is from one of our absolute favorite, one of my absolutely favorite all-time business books called The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks. So actually lives in [Ojai Brad Dobson:                     No? Really.Minette Riordan:              Yep, local guy. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.Brad Dobson:                     The Big Leap.Minette Riordan:              The Big Leap, and in The Big Leap he talks about how we all have four zones of competency and that the dream goal is to spend as much time as possible in our zone of genius. He talks about the zone of genius being this space where we are in flow all the time. Where the work is easy, where it’s effortless, it’s making us lots of money, and it takes a lot of support to spend a lot of time in your zone of genius. The other zones are your zone of competence-Brad Dobson:                     I’m sorry I’m laughing.Minette Riordan:              You are laughing.Brad Dobson:                     I have this picture of me in the kitchen, trying to figure out whether that is a zone of incompetence or competence.Minette Riordan:              Oh, you’re getting better. So definitely-Brad Dobson:                     I didn’t mean to interrupt.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, the kitchen is probably a zone of excellence for me, but not zone of genius. So there are four zones, zone of incompetence, zone of competence, zone of excellence, and your zone of genius. Right? Which is the dream space.Brad Dobson:                     So genius is where you’re just in a flow, everything is simple and it’s what people-Minette Riordan:              Brings you joy.Brad Dobson:                     It’s what people tell you you’re best at. Not what you think you’re best at, but what people tell you you’re best at, I think.Minette Riordan:              And so what we’ve done with our clients is I actually give them giant sheets of paper and I have them just do a massive brain dump of every activity that they do in their business. And it’s pretty overwhelming and intimidating to do this, but we cannot recommend it highly enough. Get some fun markers and some giant sticky notes or a white board and just start writing down everything that you do in your business.Brad Dobson:                     Little things, big things, all of the crap.Minette Riordan:              All of the things.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah.Minette Riordan:              #allthethings, because as entrepreneurs we do way too much. This is our whole thing about productivity, again, it is not about doing more, it’s actually about what can I let go of, so I am not doing all the things and juggling hats. So, once you do this massive brain dump, then you start to label everything on the list with an “I” for incompetence, “C” for competence, a “E” for excellence, or a “G” for genius. And I remember the dismay of my husband and some of our clients when they realized how much of their time was … Like, we had one client in particular, when she really looked at the list, she was spending so much time in her zone of competence and incompetence, and very little of what she was doing on a day-to-day basis fell into even excellence, much less genius.We had other people that had beautiful insights and ah-has from recognizing which part of their work in their business was in their zone of genius. And it maybe wasn’t something they identified as that opportunity before, but so just that noticing about how you feel about all these different activities and getting crystal clear about anything that is in your zone of incompetence or competence, you should be creating a plan for getting support around that.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, and I’ll give you an example, a personal example. From the start we hired a bookkeeper, because … And a tax person, clearly, that is completely outside of my zone of excellence, and quite outside of my zone of competence, and so-Minette Riordan:              I’d put it square in my zone of incompetence, actually.Brad Dobson:                     Right. And so, even, and it is something I’d suggest for even folks that are just starting out is to let go of that from the start. And I know y’all are out there, “Oh, I always do my taxes and I like doing my ledgers and stuff like that.” Well, if you’re that person, that’s fine, but you get extra protection from having a professional do it, but gosh, it’s just not something where … It’s one of these things where your time is much better spent on something that is closer to your zone of genius or something that is in your zone of excellence.Minette Riordan:              And even if it’s in your zone of competence, it’s important to recognize we are not saying that you won’t be reviewing the information, that you won’t be looking at the details, that’s part of your job as owner/CEO/leader of your business is to know what’s going on. You don’t need to do the actual data collection. And this would be true for all kinds of numbers for your financials, for your statistics, all kinds of things. You don’t have to be the one to collect the information. I am not an information gatherer, this is not at all in my zone of interest, and so it just doesn’t happen. But I appreciate the value of data and I actually enjoy looking at the data. Other people love collecting data, contemplators love collecting the data and figuring out how to improve it.Numbers simply tell a story, we find a lot of people want to hold onto this piece of their business, but the truth is that … Or they ignore it completely, creatives, in particular, have a real tendency to just ignore numbers, data, and facts and figures in their business, but they tell an amazing story and show you why you’re maybe stuck where you’re stuck or maybe you’re doing better. I remember having one client track her income and she made so much more money than she thought she did, she just hadn’t been paying any attention. She was afraid to look. So the story had a happy ending and the story never has a bad ending, it just has a, “I need to make some changes here.” But I’d love for you just to speak a little about your 20 plus years as a programmer and how you spent a lot of time maybe in your zone of excellence, but not really in your zone of genius.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, well, there was a lot of time … Perhaps competence as well, just a lot of time where if I had identified my zone of genius, it’s really the creative part, in the design work whereas I spent a lot more time … Or, perhaps, debugging really complex problems whereas I spent a lot more time doing grunt type of coding and that type of thing. I would also give other examples, we didn’t want to just talk about numbers. I just gave the bookkeeper example, we could talk about writing. There-Minette Riordan:              Marketing.Brad Dobson:                     Yeah, marketing, writing, there are many people who struggle mightily with writing and maybe that means you’re … And we’ve seen this before, you just can never get your website done, because you can’t the About page right, or you just can’t write the words. Or maybe we’re talking about web work, where you just can’t get the website done, because there’s technical hurdles related to it.Minette Riordan:              But you don’t know how to overcome.Brad Dobson:                     And, you know, face up to it, admit it. It’s not your zone of competence even, it’s probably a zone of incompetence.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, and this is not about judgment, or blame, or shame, or limiting beliefs, or I can’t do it. This is about owning your genius and then giving other people space to own theirs as well.Brad Dobson:                     Right, and this come back to what Minette was talking about the E-Myth where somehow we’re magically able to do all of these different things, right? And we really aren’t. It’s rare to find someone who’s even at the level of competence across the board on all aspects of business. It’s just a huge set of problems to solve and there are many people that are better at individual ones. It doesn’t mean you have to go out and spend all the money right now, but find a plan to address that.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, the other thing I wanted to reference about asking for support is to link it back to the pillars of energy and boundaries. One of the reasons that we so many of our clients feeling overwhelmed and burnt out is because they are not asking for support. They think they have to do it all on their own and they are not managing their energy well, they don’t have clear boundaries around time or attention. Where we see some of the not asking for support or not managing boundaries well is in people doing too much bartering for support.Like there is something they want or need and I find that barters in business rarely end up being really equal, especially if you’re a conductor, you always over give. So you send to over give of your time and your talents and not be a receiver of support. Part of the successfully asking for support is being open to actually receiving support. We have an awesome VA and it’s always that reminder of, “We need to give her more. We need to give her more.” She’s perfectly capable and way more in her zone of excellence and genius at some of the stuff than we are. And some of it we’re training her up along with us to be able to have this stuff be in her happy place as well.I want to share a quick personal story about how this showed up for me, so we came back from vacation, we try almost every summer to go to Nova Scotia to visit Brad’s family outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s one of our super happy places, a place we really go for a lot of rest and renewal as well as family connection. We came back from vacation and school was getting started and the kids were in band camp and everything was getting crazy. I’m trying to grow this business, I think this was even before Brad came to work with me, so I was really on my own, just me and a VA. I had that moment of going, “I can’t keep doing all of this by myself, I can’t do all the shopping, I can’t do all the cooking, all the laundry,” and nobody said, “Minette, you have to do this.” It was just those were the things that I took on.I realize I just needed to ask for support. As usual, we were walking on the beach, we tend to do a lot of these conversations walking, and I said, “I need help.” And that was probably three or four years ago, and so everybody has nights that they cook, Brad and I share the grocery shopping, for a while we had a personal assistant who we were sad to see go, she got an awesome full-time opportunity, we were so excited for her. We haven’t made the time to replace her right now, and it takes time to find the right support, especially from that personal assistant perspective.But I found things that small, and when we first started looking at how we can get more support to free us up, we actually didn’t look inside our business, we looked outside our business. We got a gardener, we got a housekeeper, both just super, super part-time, it doesn’t cost us a ton of money every month, but I think it saves us so much sanity. It’s so nice to have a clean house, it’s so nice that people aren’t walking up to a front lawn that’s overgrown with weeds, which is what was happening, because neither of us were making the time to do the weeding, because it’s not fun for us.Brad Dobson:                     Well, and you get spread too thin.Minette Riordan:              It was spread way too thin, and especially the kids both were in marching band and most weekends we were off on activities with them and there literally wasn’t time, right? So, you can look for support outside your business first, as you plan for support inside your business. So do you have a parent, a friend, a child, that you can be asking to contribute more, to show up? Maybe going to your mom’s house for dinner a couple times a week and letting her feed you would be a way of getting support and some rest and renewal as well.Sadly, all of our family lives far away, it’s not even an option for us to be able to do that. So if you have your parents or siblings or close friends nearby, how can you collaborate? Like if you’re a mom with young kids and you know another mom business owner with young kids, can you guys share some childcare so that you have a little bit more time to get work done? So get creative, it doesn’t always have to cost money to get support.Brad Dobson:                     How can we relate this to the different, unique productivity styles? The commander, the creator, the contemplator, and the conductor?Minette Riordan:              That is such a great question. So the commander, remember, is the super driven, get things done, get them fast, they’re really focused on results, they’re in it to win it. They’re good at delegating if you remind them to delegate. So, I find that they tend to be great leaders, they could be a little, maybe, nicer sometimes about delegating and asking people to get things done. I am one of those, so I speak to myself about that. So for me it’s remembering I have support in place and I just need to ask for support.For the creators, I think, they probably don’t think they need support, right? They’re not introverted, they’re actually very extroverted, but they are really not paying attention to the detail. So where the creator really needs to ask for support is in systems and processes. So that they can spend more time in their creative zone of genius.The contemplator, they suck at asking for support, because they don’t think anybody can do it as well as they can.Brad Dobson:                     Uh-huh (affirmative).Minette Riordan:              Uh-huh, that’s him. And then the conductor is brilliant at giving support, they also are really slow to receive support. And one of the things to remember, when somebody offers support, say “Thank you,” and take the support. It actually is a disservice and doesn’t … It’s like your saying, “No,” to somebody’s gift of offer of support. I have found myself really guilty of this, of not thinking I needed help or needing support and so when people say, “How can I help?” I’m like, “I’m good, I don’t need any help.”So we can all get in this place of thinking we have to do it ourselves or being overgenerous and over-giving. When we are overgenerous and over-giving, then we’re back in where we are not managing our energy and our boundary. So that’s just very briefly how each of the four types relate to asking for support.Brad Dobson:                     Cool stuff. So let’s wrap this up with some key takeaways for people related to asking for support.Minette Riordan:              So the first one is to identify where you need support in your personal life or your business life, because when you get support it will free up your time. It also brings people into your business that have expertise in a particular area, so either in their zone of excellence or zone of genius. So you’re looking for partners, or contractors, or collaborators that have complementary talents to you, because together you can grow so much faster than you can alone.Brad Dobson:                     So, a good exercise would be the one we mentioned earlier in terms of listing out all the things that you do in the business. Identifying which ones are zones of incompetence, competence, excellence, or genius. Obviously, the low-hanging fruit is the work you are doing in your zone incompetence.Minette Riordan:              Absolutely, and we cannot highly enough recommend The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks as a resource for that. And the second thing is to actually ask for support once you identify what areas of your life and business you need support in, you have to ask, just like I asked Brad and my kids for support. We taught our kids to do their own laundry, it’s amazing how much time that saves, right? Well, there’s the-Brad Dobson:                     Maggie shaves off an hour just by not folding anything.Minette Riordan:              Well, we kind of live out of our laundry baskets sometimes, too. So, not the best habit.Brad Dobson:                     Triathletes create a lot of dirty clothes.Minette Riordan:              I know, I have so benefited from him being a triathlete, because he’s doing laundry all the time, and he puts mine in, too. So I’ve really benefited from that. So asking for support, first in your personal life, because that will free you up to focus on your business and then, as you are able, to plan for paid support in your business.I heard a great story about this from my friend, Rebecca [Hallgrader Brad Dobson:                     Right, right. And then, finally, no wait, no. Did you go from …Minette Riordan:              I did.Brad Dobson:                     You listed all of them?Minette Riordan:              I did.Brad Dobson:                     Okay.Minette Riordan:              So identify where you need help, ask for help, and then plan for paid support.Brad Dobson:                     Good.Minette Riordan:              Those are our three key takeaways.Brad Dobson:                     Very cool. In next week’s episode, we’re going to talk to Alan Crusher, of Crusher TV-Minette Riordan:              Yeah, this is like a favorite episode.Brad Dobson:                     He’s a really cool guy, yeah. And we’re going to talk about theming your days, theming your different times during your workday, to theme different types of productive work output. Really killer for me, definitely something I’m working to adopt into my day-to-day, in my planning, and a neat guy all together, so.Minette Riordan:              Yeah, super. It was one of our … We have lots of favorite episodes, but this is definitely going to be one of our favorites, so that’s coming in episode 105 with Alan Crusher. And you have heard us in the last couple of episodes talking about the pillars of productivity in relationship to our productivity styles. So if you’re curious to discover what your unique productivity style is, you can take that quiz online at pathtoprofitacademy.com/upsquiz, upsquiz, or you can find a link in the show notes on our podcast page as well.Brad Dobson:                     Along with links to the books that we mentioned, the E-Myth and The Big Leap.Minette Riordan:              Yep, so two books we highly recommend for every entrepreneur, they are definitely must-reads. So, thanks everybody, as always we’d love your support on iTunes. Let us know which one of these pillars is really standing out for you, or today my challenge for you would be to tell us how it went when you identified your four zones of incompetence all the way up to genius, and where’s one place you’re willing to ask for a little bit more support in your business?Brad Dobson:                     Have a great day, guys.Speaker 3:                           Thanks for listening to Structure and Flow. The productivity podcast for creative entrepreneurs. To find out more about this episode and others, go to pathtoprofitacademy.com and click on the podcast link. The post Episode 104: Want to Increase Productivity Fast? Do This 1 Thing! appeared first on Path to Profit Academy.