Ari R. Meisel > Quotes

“pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.” Words to live by!”
― Ari Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“If you have good habits, technology can make them better. If you have bad habits, it will intensify those habits.”
― Ari Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“Three Steps to Less Implement the three Ds: delete, deal (including delegating), or defer to all tasks. Strive for ABD: always be done. Put your ego aside and recognize that sometimes the hurdle is you.”
― Ari Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“Three Steps to Less Collect data by tracking your time, energy, and resources to identify patterns. Focus on one thing at a time. Eliminate multitasking and other unproductive behaviors. Implement the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 Rule). Focus on the things in your life that give you the highest return on investment.”
― Ari Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“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.”
― Ari Meisel, Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier

“Happily, there is an effective method to get to the heart of any problem called The Five Whys. You identify a problem and then drill down into The Five Whys behind it. I’ll give you are very simplistic example to illustrate how this works. Problem: My tea was cold. Why #1 The kettle didn’t heat the water. Why #2 There was no power. Why #3 The fuse in the plug was blown. Why #4 An incorrect fuse was being used. Why #5 The required fuse was not specified. Solution: We need to get the right fuse to use in the future.”
― Ari Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“FileThis.com.”
― Ari Meisel, Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier

“We should not try to do the most possible; we should try to do the least necessary.”
― Ari R. Meisel, The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life

“The InBox Zero Steps. 1. Create​a​filter​that​weeds out​emails with the word “Unsubscribe.” 2. Establish whether the emails that remain fall under: Do - Can this be dealt with or delegated in five minutes? Delete - Does this require a response? Defer - Is there a more productive time or place to tackle this.”
― Ari Meisel, The Replaceable Founder