In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at the art of the comeback. Whether you're having a bad day, bad week, or a bad month, you can get yourself back on track by doing some of the following:

• Ask for help to get you over the finish line

• Admitting you aren't in the best place and asking for help

• Learning the messages that failure teaches you

• Running your own race and the power of small wins

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com

In this episode, Lee and Ellen discuss building shortcuts into your activities. Together they look at:

• Why Lee has mixed feelings about shortcuts

• How Phil Collins used his shortcuts to write music that the brass players could understand (eventually)

• How shortcuts make it easier to get started on a project

• What shortcuts can look like and how to use them

• The power of a 10-minute burst of energy

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at how the idea of van living can be applied to your life to make you more efficient. Together, they look at:

• How to combat the natural law that states: "Stuff expands to fille the space available."

• Understanding that the less stuff you have, the less time it takes to maintain it.

• Looking at ways to live a simplified life in a complicated world

• Eliminating tools that accomplish only one thing in your kitchen and your life

• How reducing your choices and options improves your efficiency

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at how you can find the best place to be hyperfocused. Together they look at:

• What physical therapy taught Ellen about hyperfocus

• The importance of examining where you focus best -- and recreating it

• Lee shares how he recreated airplane time

• Why hyperfocus is important

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode Ellen and Lee look at how leveraging fun can make you more efficient. Together they look at:

• Why its hard to be efficient in the summer

• The easy combination that will help you get more done

• Why watching tv at the gym makes the most sense for Lee

• Setting up your office in unexpected, but fun places

• How gamification can make it easier to get things done

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode Lee and Ellen look at easy ways you can use your cellphone camera to be more efficient. Together they look at:

• How making folders and notebooks can make your life easier

• The various things in your home that you can photograph and why

• Making these notebooks work with you when you are traveling

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts, www.LeeSilber.com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode, Lee and Ellen look at taking ordinary things and using them as a way to be more efficient. Together they look at:

• Lee's traveling hack (and why it involves socks)

• Building stations around your house to keep things all in one place

• How what you wear to bed can make you more efficient

• Do you have efficiency hacks you'd like to share? Send them to us!

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts: www.LeeSilber. com and www.EllenGoodwin.com

In this episode, Ellen and Lee look at why effectiveness is always better than efficiency, and what difference it can make in achieving your goals. Together, they look at:

• The definition of effectiveness and why it matters

• The one question you should always be asking yourself

• The point system that Lee uses to ensure he is effective with his time

• Why it's important to choose effectiveness over efficiency

Edited at Studio D, Wayne Duncan, producer

Your co-hosts: www.EllenGoodwin.com and www.LeeSilber.com