316: Run Your Business and Your Life with P.I.E.K. Efficiency: Organize, Experiment, and Course-Correct Your Path to Freedom and Success with the 5 Dollar Dinner Mom Erin Chase

Erin Chase from 5DollarDinners.com is a busy mother who realized she could help others live their lives by becoming more organized through PIEK efficiency: Plan, Implement, Evaluate, Kill.

Listen in as she explains how she grew from affiliate ads into paid classes and membership sites. She explains how she made her course and membership site different compared to "recipe" or "meal planning" sites as well as how she developed the software to make it truly stand out.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“When you go from spinning backward to spending forward, you can use all that emotional and mental energy on whatever else in your life you need to spend it on, instead of food.” – Erin Chase

“I want you invested in this, and I want you to succeed. The best way to do that is for you to invest in it.” – Erin Chase

“I've always been a bit obsessed with efficiency—more so than productivity. I’d call myself a pretty productive person, but I want things to be efficient, both in my own work and within our team.” – Erin Chase

Takeaways:

06:36 Efficiency and productivity are critical skills that can be developed and applied across personal and professional life.

14:58 Creating a list of 20 family-favorite meals helps break routine cooking patterns and expands meal variety.

21:46 Small morning decisions and organizational habits can prevent a cascade of stress and poor choices throughout the day.

25:08 Developing software or tools should focus on intuitive design that allows users to navigate without extensive instructions.

28:49 Many entrepreneurs struggle with implementing plans and evaluating project progress, which hinders business growth.

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