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Optimise Your Workflow, Enhance Your Life: Here’s How

Hello ,
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Today’s newsletter highlights two exceptional guests with powerful personal and professional growth insights.

  1. Anna Burgess Yang shares lean-inspired processes for streamlining workflows as a solopreneur.
  2. On Friday, December 13, podcast guest Michel Novotny explores how adapting self-care as we age fosters resilience and longevity.

Anna Burgess Yang: A Lean Approach to Professional Organization and Automation

My conversation with Anna highlights her focused approach to organisation and automation as a solopreneur—a skilled professional specialising in content creation for the financial technology (Fintech) sector. Her expertise in this niche field has enabled her to carve out a distinctive position, driving her success.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Anna is deeply committed to supporting others. She shares her insights and experiences by writing and creating YouTube videos, helping freelancers and solopreneurs navigate their journeys.

Anna’s natural approach to work embodies lean principles through her structured use of automation, organisation, and continuous improvement. Her ability to manage the demands of solopreneurship while raising three children highlights the precision and focus required to simplify processes and foster efficiency.

By adopting lean-inspired practices such as eliminating waste and prioritising high-value tasks, professionals can boost productivity, reduce errors, and enhance adaptability in their workflows.

How Anna’s Practices Align with Lean Principles

Eliminating Waste
Anna streamlines repetitive tasks by leveraging automation, such as client onboarding and file organisation.
Examples include:

  • Automatically saving contracts to Google Drive.
  • Using Airtable to trigger the creation of folders, QuickBooks entries, and project management updates.

These steps eliminate manual redundancies, save time, and minimise errors—a hallmark of waste reduction in lean practices.

Continuous Improvement
Anna continuously refines her systems, integrating tools like ChatGPT to repurpose content and using Siri and Zapier for task automation.

Her approach reflects kaizen—making consistent, incremental improvements over time.

Standardisation
Anna ensures consistency across her work by implementing uniform folder structures and templates. This simplifies her processes and creates an efficient, predictable workflow—a core principle of lean methodology.

Fixing What Bugs You
Lean practices prioritise addressing inefficiencies, and Anna’s philosophy mirrors this. She identifies and eliminates friction points, such as repetitive keystrokes and outdated app integrations, to maintain a smooth workflow.

Fostering a Culture of Improvement
Anna promotes a lean-inspired mindset through her newsletter and tutorials, encouraging solopreneurs and small businesses to evaluate and enhance their workflows.

As a “systems architect,” she designs practical solutions that others can implement to boost efficiency and growth.

A masterclass in managing professional workflows

Anna offers us a window into how to think about your professional workflows, highlighting how even small, intentional changes—can drive transformative results.

Her story is a model for running an organised, independent business and an inspiration for adopting lean thinking to amplify impact.
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​Listen to the podcast here or on your favourite podcast app: https://www.wisepreneurs.au/mastering-tools-processes-anna-burgess-yang​

Aging with Purpose: Lessons for Resilience and Longevity

My final podcast guest this year is Michel Novotny, a globally acclaimed physical therapist and fitness coach from the Czech Republic.

Michel’s career includes working with elite athletes like tennis legends Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova, and actors Orlando Bloom and the Australian Chris Hemsworth.

His message is far-reaching and deeply relevant to all of us. Michel emphasises the importance of taking stock of where we are as we age and adapting how we look after ourselves.

His conversation offers actionable insights extending beyond the elite level, inspiring everyone to consider how they can achieve resilience and longevity.

The critical takeaway from Michel’s insights is that aging requires adapting our approach—we can’t simply rely on what worked in the past.

His conversation extends beyond work, fitness, and longevity, encouraging a mindful reflection on how we age and what changes are necessary.

At the elite level, this understanding can mean the difference between enhancing or ending a career, but its relevance resonates with everyone. Coming Friday 13 December​
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In the meantime, stay curious, stay healthy, and keep thriving.

Nigel Rawlins
Wisepreneurs
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