9 Habits To Develop Extreme
Productivity
Based on a book
about the remarkable story of the author’s Erica and Mike Schultz and their Son’s
five year fight for life.
Sometimes our most
productive times can come during a period of adversity, as it did for the
authors.
During a study of
thousands of extremely productive people, they came up with 9 habits based on
the use of something we all have in equal amounts, time.
T.I.M.E
Erica and Mike
Schultz found a method of breaking down time into distinct segments during each
day:
·
Treasured Time – cherished time most
special to them on a personal level.
·
Investment Time – generates returns that
exceed the work you put in.
·
Mandatory Time – time doing day-to-day
thing you must do.
·
Empty Time – wasted time, surfing web,
social media doing nothing.
Key message.
Maximise Treasured and
Investment Time – Minimise Mandatory and Empty Time.
Extremely productive
people manage their time better and so can you.
Develop these 9
habits to become extremely productive and happier.
1. Recruit Your
Driving Force – Your WHY.
Motivate yourself by
finding your true driving force.
Write down goals and
break them into annual, quarterly and weekly goals and manageable chunks or tasks.
This might sound
familiar to you, but are you doing it?
2. Ignite Your Proactivity
Fill your daily
calendar with Investment Time activities. Prioritise your Greatest Impact
Activity or GIA – the activity with the greatest long-term return on
your detailed concentrated effort.
Develop better
habits to put more of your time into GIA activities to turbocharge your productivity.
This reminds me of
the 80/20 rule – 80% of your productivity probably comes for 20% of your tasks.
3. Re-engineer Your
Habits
Identify unproductive
habits, such as spending hours on social media or doing nothing on your daily
commute and upgrade them. For instance, you could upgrade your time on social
media to learn a new skill or listen to a productive podcast during your
Mandatory Time commute to and from work.
As Brian Tracy said,
the average person in America today spends enough time in their cars each week
to study for a degree. Instead of listening to the radio for hours, they could
listen to audio recordings and literally take a degree in three years or learn
a new language.
Our cars, Brain said,
can be turned into !learning machines”. The same applies to smartphones through
which you can access millions of audios, audiobooks on platforms such as
Audible and podcasts on every
subject all at very little cost.
Another tip is to
turn off unnecessary notifications on your smartphone, which distracts your
mind away and breaks your concentration, or train yourself to not instantly
react to them.
Changing your
environment can also affect your concentration. Fix the problem or work
somewhere that makes you more productive.
4. Obsess Over
Time
Obsessing over your
TIME means working out where every activity fits within that structure.
Make sure your
priorities are reflected in your daily routine.
Take Treasured
Time
Increase
Investment Time
Minimise
Mandatory Time
Eliminate (as
much as possible) Empty Time.
Successful and
wealthy people value and seldom waste time, like when I spoke to John Assaraf
and met the likes of Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy. They were helpful, but quickly
and politely moved on.
Its not just about
what you do, but what you don’t do...
5. Say No
Have a clear idea of
what’s really important.
When someone asks
you to do something that doesn’t fit in with your priorities, have the courage
to politely, but assertively to say “no”!
That doesn’t mean
saying no to your boss by the way!
It does mean saying “no”
to things that do not serve your purpose at that moment.
The more successful
you become, the more others want a piece of you, so you must learn to manage your
time and schedule.
6. Play Hard To
Get
Concentration.
Distractions are everywhere these days, especially our inbox and numerous
message boxes. Does every message need to be dealt with immediately?
Don’t try to be
always available to everyone. Block out time to concentrate on your schedule
and your most important GIA tasks. Your time is your own.
7. Get In The
Zone
Learn to get in the
zone and stay there. An athlete or performer can look relaxed an hour before a
game or concert. But once they get on that stage they are instantly in the zone.
Set aside 90 minutes
of work and break it down into short sprints with breaks in between.
8. Develop Energy
Take care of your
body by eating nourishing food, getting enough sleep and exercising.
All the successful
people I have known and met seem to have boundless energy whatever their age.
Don’t waste mental energy
on unnecessary things. For instance, have set meals for each day of the week rather
than spending hours wondering what to have for dinner.
9. Right The Ship
– Get Back On Track When Life Knocks You Down
No matter how
successful or rich you are, things go wrong and can knock you off course. You
have learn to pull yourself together and ‘right the ship’ time and time again
when storms come and blow you off course.
Identify bad habits
like ordering another beer or glass of wine to constantly checking your phone.
You have free will
and free won’t.
Break down large,
seeming impossible tasks, into smaller manageable chunks.
Make a contract with
yourself to achieve something important to you like losing weight or getting
fit.
I would add ‘Systems’
to Erica and Mike’s great habits.
Systems
The difference
between a small one-man-band, mom and pop business and a larger more scalable
business is systems.
Scalable business
have systems and processes in place covering everything admin to sales. Most
small businesses don’t. That’s why they stay small. The owners can never scale
their business because they are spending 60-80 hours a week in the business.
You can apply
systems to your personal, family and business life.
Efficient, organised
households are run on systems.
The above habits do
not require any harder work or effort than you are putting in now.
It’s the same with
becoming financially free. You can become wealthy and financially free without
working any harder than you are right now. In fact, it could be less.
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