I find with everything going on life can be amazingly challenging
How can I start with something small and help it grow into something powerful
How many of you sleep within arm reach of your phone?
average person interact with there phone every six minutes
Kill the smartphone madness
Alerts break productivity cycles
We become Pavlov dogs
This is about creating prioritization to your work day which is critical to success
It also keeps us from an overwhelming workload
Small little tasks that go uncompleted can eat up your time
Follow the two-minute rule. If a task comes on your plate that will take less than two minutes to complete, start to finish, just do it. This keeps your list of "I'll do it later" tasks from piling up into an intimidating mass that takes a whole day to complete. If you hold yourself to this rule, be careful about when you open yourself to new ideas and tasks. Otherwise, you'll be interrupting your awesome rule to make time for those two-minute excursions.
Unfortunately, our brains just aren’t equipped for multitasking tasks that require brainpower. Our short-term memories can only store between five and nine things at once.
Creating time restraints will automatically increase productivity
by creating a deadline you create pressure which helps you get things done
This is how a piece of coal becomes a diamond. Pressure and time
Find something to do daily that is healthy and you can get lost in it for 15-30 minutes
For me it is surfing for some people it is running others it is yoga.
If you are just getting started take a WALK
Quiet your environment
Listen to music for a beta state
Read at least 15 minutes per day
You can listen to books on tape at 3 times the speed and still fully comprehend the content
People always tell you to write down your goals, and this can be limiting.
When you write down your fears, you give them voice and you give them shape. Put them on a piece of paper, and they don't look so scary.
When you compartmentalize your own fear and risk, you’ll be amazed by how much courage you have.
Great Facebook motto
Action always out paces the best laid plan
There is do and don’t do no try in life
If you fail at something, remember that you need to reframe failure as an outcome you didn’t expect.
When you’re wrong and have to close down a project you’ve been working on, apologize to everyone that it didn’t go the way you wanted. Then learn from the mistake and move forward.
Fail fast and focus on moving forward
86,400 seconds per day
You can always decide to make more money, but you cannot choose to make more time. Time is your most valuable asset, and until you choose to treat it with value, it will continue to be worthless.
Kill long meetings
Have an agenda before a meeting starts
Avoid the (Got A Minute) meetings
time leading up to an event is often wasted preparing for the meeting
Email
Phone
meetings
daily workflow management is critical
always know the one thing you really need to get done
Not to-dos; outcomes. The “rule of 3” is one of my favorite productivity rituals, and its power lies in its simplicity. Define three outcomes you want to make happen today. Not things you have to do; actual results you want to get done. Ask yourself, if it’s the end of the day, what three things do you want to have accomplished?
You likely already have a to-do list because if you didn’t, you would have a thousand commitments bouncing around in your head everyday. But it’s just as mentally taxing to keep track of everything you’re waiting for. When you maintain a list of everything you’re waiting for, you can make sure nothing slips through the cracks, and you can worry a lot less about the things you need to stay on top of.
Note taking helps keep you focused and to remember meeting and tasks at hand
Mole skins rock or use Evernote for the technology proficient
You always have 15 minutes for something (Meditation)
Try to completely absorb yourself in it without distractions
Yesterday’s home runs don't win today’s games
Plan in decades. Think in years. Work in months. Live in days
I find with everything going on life can be amazingly challenging