Optimize, Automate And Outsource By Less Doing with Ari Meisel
One of the things that companies don’t do a lot is data analysis. By committing time to stop and look at the metrics, entrepreneurs can learn a lot on how to be effective and productive in their businesses. Ari Meisel grew Leverage with this mind set and with the help of Less Doing, a system of productivity he developed while he was on the journey of overcoming an illness. Learn how you can optimize, automate and outsource not just your business, but every aspect of life in order to be a more effective person.
Optimize, Automate And Outsource By Less Doing with Ari Meisel
My guest is a business expert who found himself in a hospital bed with a dozen tubes going in and out of him wondering if he was going to die at the mercy of some of the best doctors in the world. When they finally gave up on him, he decided to step in and take his health into his own hands. That was the beginning of a new life. From applying both diet and yoga, he slowly recovered from this ordeal better than ever. From this sprang a new enterprise which followed on exactly the concept of doing less. Ari Meisel, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having me and for that dramatic introduction.
It really is true. Nothing I said was really false in any way, was it?
No, not at all.
Here you were in this horrible place and recovering from this horrible illness, Crohn’s disease. How were you inspired to basically get into yoga and vegetarian diet when almost everything else known to medical science had failed?
I got to this place where it was pretty bad obviously and I felt like I was in a particularly low point and things hadn’t been working. Part of the problem with Crohn’s disease and I feel like many illnesses with an auto-immune component is that because you’re essentially at war with your own body, it’s very quick to get to a point where you throw your hands up and you just let the tide wash over you and you go with it. That doesn’t usually take you to a very good place. You take more medicine and you try different tests and things don’t usually work. There’s a detachment that happens. It got to this point where I had some moment of clarity and basically it was like, “I’ve got to do something drastically different from what I’m doing now and see if I can get some semblance of control.”
Less Doing: It’s very quick to get to a point where you throw your hands up and you just let the tide wash over you and you go with it.
I basically tried to do the extreme opposite of what I had been doing. I started with the vegetarianism that only lasted about three months. Then I was essentially a pescatarian for about three years. Now I eat everything because I have healed parts of my body but the pescatarian diet was the main part for me. I hadn’t really been physically active much at all other than lifting weights. Part of that was that I was on systemic steroids. I was just angry and I was lifting heavy weights, and that seemed to be making a lot of sense obviously at the time but it didn’t help me do anything. I went again the extreme opposite. I wanted to do something that was very gentle and complementary to your body’s movements, so that was yoga.
Then I started just experimenting with supplements. The biggest thing in a lot of that was that a lot of people just don’t have very good body awareness. It’s just the way it is. We have too many other things going on. Unless you draw attention to something specifically, you’re not necessarily going be thinking about it or noticing it or recognizing how certain foods make you feel or certain activities or certain people. The biggest overall message from all of it that I would say is that I regained a better proprioception in my sense of my own body.
That sense of one’s self both physical, emotional, mental and spiritual are what we call balance. I understand balance because, like you and like most people, I’ve been through many of these ordeals on my own. Here’s something I wanted to relate to you. Many years ago when I was in business with Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins, Chet’s daughter, Amanda, had been having severe issues in the same area that you were. She had been under medical care as well.
After a blood test from Immunolabs, she discovered that she had food allergies that she was unaware of. As soon as she eliminated those foods from her diet, all of her symptoms went away and she completely healed. Food allergies have some evidence of affecting the condition that you had. Did you find that to be the same or no? ...
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