1. Learn how to balance work and life while earning more and working less.
2. Discover the mindset shifts needed to overcome procrastination and "head trash."
3. Get actionable tips on time-blocking and prioritizing your highest payoff activities.
4. Hear Anne's practical strategies for making accountability your success catalyst.
5. Walk away with free resources, including tools for time management and visualization.

Anne's Valuable Free Resources (VFR):

https://accountabilitycoach.com
https://bit.ly/time_blocking
https://accountabilitycoach.com/visualization
https://accountabilitycoach.com/stop-procrastination

Join accountability expert Anne Bachrach as she shares proven strategies to work smarter, overcome procrastination, and achieve meaningful results. From time-blocking to visualization, discover actionable tips to boost productivity and create the ideal business and life you desire. Includes free resources for immediate impact - this episode comes with BONUS MATERIAL at the end.

02:48 Ideal Client: Entrepreneurs earning $150,000–$3M who want to work less, focus on priorities, and achieve work-life balance.

03:30 Problem Solved: Overcoming procrastination and "head trash" to focus on high-payoff activities.

04:30 Valuable Free Action (VFA): Use a prioritized action list (PAL), a time-blocked calendar, and clear business metrics to boost efficiency.

05:40 Valuable Productive Action (VPA): Embrace time-blocking like top achievers and learn to get comfortable with discomfort for personal growth.

10:40 Valuable Free Resources (VFR): Free downloads for time-blocking, visualization, and overcoming procrastination from Anne's website.

11:50 Bonus Material

(Note, this was transcribed using transcription software and may not fully reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

Welcome to the Goalbusters Expert Peak Productivity Tips podcast, where top business experts get just seven minutes to answer five rapid fire questions about what they do and how they stay productive.

Each episode is packed with actionable insights to help boost your efficiency and achieve your goals. Let's dive in and unlock the secrets to peak performance.

00:22 ROBIN

Well, hello, everybody. My name is Robin J. Emdon, and I'm the creator of the Get Resultsology system and an accountability coach.
I help people harness productivity to achieve meaningful results, increase income, grow their business, and create success that resonates with their authentic selves.

Today, I am joined by Anne Bachrach, jokingly, even affectionately known as the accountability pitbull. With over twenty five years of experience, Anne is one of America's leading experts on accountability, helping entrepreneurs achieve their ideal business and life by working less and earning more. She believes personal accountability is the key to unlocking business success and personal growth.

Anne is the host of the accountability coach podcast where she shares proven strategies for success, and she's the creator of The Accountability Minute, offering a daily dose of actionable advice. She's also the author of several books, including Excuses Don't Count, Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and co-author of Roadmap to Success alongside Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, no less. I'm really looking forward to today's conversation with Anne Bachrach. Anne, welcome.

ANNE
Well, thank you, Robin. I really appreciate you being here, and I'm looking forward to our conversation as well.

ROBIN
I am very much looking forward to it today. Whereabouts are you, Anne?

ANNE
I'm in San Diego, California.

ROBIN
Oh, wow. That's one of my favourite parts of the world. I was there about twenty five or so years ago. I did wave, but I don't think you saw me.

ANNE
I didn't. I wasn't here then.

So Oh, I didn't.

ROBIN

We must been have ships that pass in the night. So I'm here in Torquay in a very cold and chilly South Devon.
Complete contrast, I know, to what it's like in San Diego at this time of year. Although, I think you've got some bad weather on the way. I think I read somewhere.

ANNE
Could be. You never know.

ROBIN
Yeah. Probably a little bit drizzle at about four o'clock this afternoon. It'll last about five minutes, I imagine. So let's crack on then.
I'll be I know that you've seen the questions, so I'm gonna hand the podcast over to you by just asking you these questions. Five questions in seven minutes. I know we can do that nice and easy. I know you can do that nice and easy.

So, Anne, please, could you tell us who is your ideal client?

02:49 ANNE

Basically, Robin, my ideal client are those entrepreneurs who make anywhere from a hundred and fifty thousand to three million or more. So they're really serious about making more money, working less because I believe in work life balance so they can create and enjoy having their ideal business and their ideal life. They're basically, in many cases, working too many hours on the wrong things, not delegating enough, not focused. And I hear this a lot. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

ROBIN
Yeah. Absolutely. That isn't that something that we often, I often I find myself muttering that a lot too. Yeah. So can you give me an example of a specific problem you solve?

03:30 ANNE
Yeah. It's basically helping people get focused on their highest payoff activities so that they're working smarter, not harder, so they're more time efficient. We all have a finite amount of time. Right? So we want to make sure we maximize that time to the fullest extent. So it's really helping them also, and you probably experienced this with working with people as well, is they have so much what I call head trash, you know, those limiting beliefs that are holding them back, and they're also procrastinators for various reasons.

And so we have to really work hard to get them over that hump to really focus on what they need to do to get the results that they're looking for and in the time frame that they desire.

ANNE
Absolutely. That's so much yeah. Brilliant. Thank you. So what is one valuable free action that the audience can implement that will help them solve that problem, Anne?

04:30 ANNE – Valuable Free Action (VFA)

Well, Robin, I'm gonna share four little ideas, okay, that really all work together instead of one big one. So basically, as I mentioned, focusing on your highest payoff activities is really important.

And by using what I call my prioritized action list or PAL, it's really a glorified to do list. So you have all the action items instead of scrap notes, you know, pieces of paper, you know, whatever you might be putting that on, and then you've got a time blocked calendar.

Right? And then you have your business metrics that basically tell you every day how many calls you need to be making, how many people you need to be speaking to, all those sort of things. And it's personal as well. So those four things in combination, and it's very simple, work in harmony together to really help you be more time efficient, therefore, doing the right actions to get the results you're looking for.

ANNE
Thank you, Anne. That was brilliant. And okay. So and four for the price of one.

I always love value for money. Thank you so much. And could you share any other tips or advice for someone looking to improve their productive habits? I know I'm greedy. That's why I'm here.

05:40 ANNE Valuable Production Action (VFA)
Well, you know, some of the most productive people in the world swear by time blocking, which I mentioned earlier, and a lot of people really don't adhere to this or maybe even understand it. Have you ever heard of Elon Musk or Bill Gates, Michael Hayek, Cal Newport?

ROBIN
Yes. Of course.

ANNE
Yeah. They're all time blockers. So what they're doing is they're squeezing every ounce of productivity out of their day to really be time efficient. And for those people who really don't understand time blocking or really have used it before, I have a resource that people can download. Can I share that link with you?

ROBIN
Yes, please. But we'll do that at the very end. I will ask you for that. That would be perfect.

ANNE
And then the other thing I wanted to mention is that really getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is important because all successful people are used to being uncomfortable. That's how they got to be successful.

So when you get used to being comfortable with being uncomfortable, you'll see your results really skyrocket. And it doesn't have to be like, oh, this is just killing me. Right? It just has to be pushing yourself outside that comfort zone a little bit to really go to your next level.

ROBIN
Yeah. Absolutely. And am I right in thinking that what you're saying there is that if it's too much uncomfortableness, that's when the procrastination kicks in. Yeah. But if you get just enough, just a little bit agitated, I call it, then that is perfect. Is that is that what you'll mean?

ANNE
And that's the motivation. That's the adrenaline. Right? So and you know this better than I do probably that, you know, when you set stretch goals, our mind really helps us go to work for stretch goals, not just realistic goals, but stretch goals, and that's uncomfortable.

Right? So a lot of times that piece of it's uncomfortable, but little did you know that scientifically, our mindset and our brain really does help us go to work for those. So that's being a little uncomfortable to be able to achieve your goals.

ROBIN
Yeah. Absolutely. Perfect. Just a little bit uncomfortable. That's something I'm very familiar with, and I've it's great hearing from that confirmed from you. So, Anne, thank you so much. So what did I what should I have asked you today that I didn't, and what would your answer be, please, Anne?

07:50 ANNE
Well, you know, one thing that I'm working, and I don't know if it's a question or not, but one thing that I'm working really hard with my one on one clients is to really take out the word try and not totally eliminate it, but it really isn't a word. I'm gonna try to do that. I'm trying to do this. I'm gonna try, you know, to do this or that.

And the reality is I actually interviewed, a hypnotist. I think he was actually from England, and he was talking about when he has people on stage, he tells them to lock their hands really hard, lock them together. And he says, try to pull them apart or try to unlock them, try to do it. They never ever do it because they're trying.

So every time somebody says to me, well, I'm trying to do this. No. You're not. You're either gonna do it or you're not. Which is it?

ROBIN
Yeah.

ANNE
So it's really important. You know, so many times we have that, as I mentioned earlier, head trash. I'm not good at, people are gonna think this of me, people are gonna think that of me. And instead of really focusing on the outcomes you want, you know, people are gonna be receptive when they when they answer my calls. People are gonna say yes when I tell them this is how much it costs and this is what we're going to do. So really visualizing outcomes that you want. And that's another, little book that I created on visualization because to me, visualization is massively impactful.

And there's been millions of studies on the power of visualization, and I think very few people really understand the power of visualization and how it can positively really help you accelerate your results.

And eighty percent of our success is mindset and twenty percent is strategy. So we really have to get our mindset in check.

ROBIN
I love the thing about trying. The little the analogy I use is I say to someone, try picking up that pen on the table, and they pick it up. And I said, no, no… I said, try. They said, well, either I can or I don't. I said, yeah. You've got it.

Because when they try, exactly what you're saying, by definition, there is, you know, isn't it Yoda in the Star Wars movie? You know? There is, you know, just do.

You know?

ANNE
Exactly.

ROBIN
And it's such an obvious point, but it's profound and makes a profound difference.

ANNE
Oh, everybody that coach you hear how many times they say the word try in a conversation?

ANNE
I'm gonna try that. No. You're not.

ROBIN
No. You're not.

ANNE
I mean and then now they're starting to catch themselves hearing it. Yeah. So they're changing their mindset because that makes a difference in them getting the outcome.

ROBIN
Absolutely. So either they're gonna do it or they're not gonna do it. That's what they're really saying.

ANNE
Yeah.

ROBIN
You need to… they need to commit, not you, but they need to commit that they are going to do it.

ANNE
Yeah.

ROBIN
Because there is no try. Just do.

ANNE
Yeah.

ROBIN
I love that!

How can people, a, find you, and b, you mentioned that you have a cool tool to share, which I would love to hear.

10:40 ANNE
Yeah. They can easily reach me at [email protected]. I've had that URL forever, so it's pretty easy to find me.
For more information really on time blocking to really help you, you know, maximize your time more efficiently and effectively, you can go to bit.ly/time_blocking

And then to get my book on visualization, it's just accountabilitycoach.com/visualization

And I probably should mention, Robin, also I do have a book that I wrote on stopping procrastination because I think there are a lot of times, you know, connected together, and that's at accountabilitycoach.com/stop-procrastination

ROBIN
That's fantastic. I've got to say, I really admire the fact you've got that domain. To me, you are the queen of my industry with the information that you provide. I am genuinely in awe of you and so thrilled that you've agreed to come on my call today.

BONUS MATERIAL…

11:50 ANNE
Yeah. When I first, said I'm an accountability coach, I mean, accountability wasn't even really a popular word.

ROBIN
No.

ANNE
So people said, well, what does that mean exactly?

And now you hear on the news, everything everybody has to be accountable, and accountable and accountable and accountable is important. And I'm an accountability coach, and I'm an again, it's like, you know, are you really holding people accountable, or what are you really doing? So, it's just interesting. Over the years, it's really become a more of a popular word.

And I think it's an important word because I think, you know, we all have good intentions, but our good intentions don't produce the results we want.

However, with accountability, you can.

ROBIN
Yes. For me, it's the missing link.

ANNEYeah.

ROBIN
I did and I do self-identify as a chronic procrastinator.

And I have tried… I've got a cupboard full of scheduling methods, books, and diaries, and all sorts of different ways of organizing your life and a whole armoury of strategies I've used over the years. They all work for a while, but they none of them last for me. That's my own experience. But accountability, that's the thing that I find tips you over the edge and makes the difference.

And for some people, it's great. Some people have internal accountability that works powerfully for them. It's the missing link for those that that just want that… they wanna keep the momentum going.

Is that does that work for you? Does that resonate for you?

ANNE
Well, yeah. But I do think we all need some accountability in some aspect of our life. I don't think we're, you know, without accountability in some area of our life to get what it is we want. So for example, I hire a trainer.

I have a gym in my house. I've got weights, benches, free weights, a universal, bosu balls, all kinds of thing. I pay a trainer. I go drive to his location and pay to work out because I keep walking by my Peloton bike, all my gym equipment, and left to my own devices I know I'm not gonna do it.

So I have to I mean, again, we all have good intentions, but intentions don't produce results. So to get what you really want in life, I really believe the number one thing that's missing is the accountability aspect of it. Whether it's personal and or business or a combination of the two, there has to be something in there that really helps you create a habit. Again, all successful people have consistent habits that they execute over time.

Therefore, that helps them. So they don't just start and stop something because you probably heard people say, oh, yeah. I was implementing what you told me, Robin. Why did I stop?

Or why did that happen? Or I fell off the wagon because they didn't make it a habit. So the habits are really important to do, and habits don't have to take a long time. They don't have to be, you know, super invasive.

It could be something really simple that gets you to do something. So for example, my, girlfriend was having a hard time remembering to take her vitamins. I said, you get up and take coffee every morning. Right?

She said, yeah. I said, put your vitamins by the coffee.

There you go.

ROBIN
That's a good advice.

We have overrun, but I consider that not just bonus material, but bonus on bonus material. I love it. Absolutely love it. And I'm sure that I apologize to my listeners if we've overrun, but I think you'll I hope you'll agree that it's really worthwhile. And we're hearing it from an absolute master of our topics. So thank you again. It's been an absolute pleasure.

Thank you so much for coming on the podcast and being our guest speaker.

ANNE
I’m honoured to have been invited. Thank you.

ROBIN
Thank you so much. Thank you, and bye bye.

15:22 OUTRO
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Robin J. Emdon is an accountability coach and creator of the GetResultsology® System, a comprehensive guide designed to help people overcome procrastination and achieve their goals.

Robin’s journey started in his family’s retail business, but he soon realised his true passion was empowering others. In 2001, he trained as a life coach in the U.S., which led him to specialise in accountability coaching and eventually create the GetResultsology® System.

During the 2020 pandemic, Robin faced his own challenge with procrastination. Despite years of coaching experience, he still struggled with distractions. Determined to find a solid, permanent solution, he developed the GetResultsology® System to help others and himself boost productivity.

Based in South Devon, England, Robin helps clients all over the world boost their income and profits by achieving extraordinary results through accountability coaching. In his spare time, he enjoys sharing his passion for local history.

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