hey guys in this video I'm gonna give you seven habits that you need to either
eliminate kill or completely remove from your brain if you want to start being
more productive at work home or just anywhere else that you find yourself now
I actually have a list of 25 habits that you should remove but these are the
seven I thought would make for an interesting video and probably helped
most of you if you want all 25 in an easy PDF format for free check the link
in the description and I'll also email you some of my favorite productivity
hacks I've been doing a lot of research in the past couple weeks so have a
number one you need to eliminate is multitasking well it might seem good at
first to focus on multiple projects at once it's ultimately killing your
productivity this is because when you focus on multiple tasks you were taking
the concentration from your brain and you're diverting it how you ever noticed
that once you start working on a project it becomes so much easier to finish it
this is because your brain is starting to zero in on it and give the task all
of its effort when you're dumbing from task to task you're taking the possible
energy and moving it around and never being able to have it on one specific
task some studies say it takes five all the way up to 20 minutes to get your
brain in a focused state on one single project and by multitasking you are
completely demolishing that focus because you're constantly switching it
around think of it like this multitasking is like a flashlight but if
you really want to dominate your goals on a day-to-day basis you need to become
a laser and focus on one thing for a short period of time habit number two
you need to eliminate is being a perfectionist now this is something that
I've had to work on in the past couple years
this tip is probably also the one you need to master the earliest on so yes
it's important to judge your work and put your best effort into everything
that you do but you do not need it to be perfect with everything that you work on
there's a famous saying that I really like it goes your 80% is someone else's
100% so this means that when you think you aren't giving everything you can or
feel that you can add something else but you don't really know what it is or you
don't have the time to put into it just go ahead and move on because those
little extra efforts might not matter to the audience that it's geared towards
remember the 8020 rule if it takes one hour for you to get to 80% of a project
then it's probably gonna take you four more hours to finish the rest of the 20%
when you start to feel yourself getting stressed out by trying to make something
perfect go ahead and stop and then just take a break have another three you need
to get rid of is saying yes all the time this is one I personally really struggle
with I used to say yes to atomic collaborations a ton of outreaches and
it's people asking for advice saying yes all
the time could seem like a great thing to do because you do not want to let
your peers or the people who are counting on you down but think of it
like this for a moment if you're saying yes to everyone and doing everything you
possibly can then after a while you'll start to get worn out and exhausted and
then the people coming towards you at the end for your favors will not receive
your best work so it might feel rude to tell someone no if it is out of your
capabilities and you know you cannot put your best work into it just kindly tell
them that you're not able to do it because you would not be able to give
them the best work possible usually they respect you more in the end and I've
actually done this multiple times when working on some business projects some
of them even when I'm in the middle of a business project it really sucks but
I've posted a sucky video before because I was tied up with too many projects and
I'm aware of that now and I'm working on it to increase the quality of my videos
have a number four you need to get rid of is scheduling important tasks last
there's been countless studies done that show that we as humans only have so much
willpower throughout the day and as the day goes on we have less and less
willpower and we're unable to continue making great decisions and actually
follow through with difficult commitments that we've made this is why
it's so important we need to prioritize our most important tasks for the
beginning of the day when we set them at the beginning of the day we can put all
of our creative energy and effort into them to make sure that they're completed
and complete it to the best of our abilities think of it like this if you
need to complete it maybe a paper you're working on and you put it at the end of
the day and you had a very exhausting day would you want to start working on
it at the end of the day no probably not this also includes something called
Parkinson's law which is something I'll explain in another video but it
basically means that whatever time you schedule to an activity it'll most
likely get done in the amount of time that you allow for it have a number 5
you need to get rid of is having too much information have you ever had a
time where you've had so much information that you are more confused
than if you just knew the foundations well it's becoming a trend that
ultimately having too much information is killing our productivity I have tons
of people emailing me all the time or that they bought all kinds of books
they've taken all kinds of classes and courses they've graduated with honors
they've met all kinds of great mentors but they're confused because they can't
get done what they want to get done well knowing is only half the battle because
you get your results from actually doing something we usually think that the more
we have the easier the project or decision might be but that's not always
the case when we're overloaded with information our brain starts almost
short-circuiting so to say because we become so stressed and we don't know how
to deal with all this new information in fact you'll find when you start reading
too much on the internet you'll find there's a ton of crap and actual
misinformation out there wrong information so this contradictory
information really messes with your decision and your planning behaviors I
found this to be especially true when I was creating my sales course it wasn't
until I actually tried everything myself that I found out what actually works and
what doesn't have a number six that you need to get rid of is self-doubting
voices have you ever had a little voice in your brain that's telling you you
can't do something well that's a little self-doubting voice it's there to get
you to give up on things that you know you need to be doing sometimes i bribed
you with easier things that won't help you achieve your goals
sometimes it lies to you about the importance of the project that you're
working on well when you start noticing yourself to think things like I can do
it or I can start tomorrow just sit down and start working sometimes the best way
to get something done is to figure it out along the way have a number seven
that you need to completely get rid of is not managing your stress one of the
worst times to be productive is when we have all different kinds of things on
our shoulders you might have experienced a traumatic family issue maybe you don't
have enough money for rent this month or you just feel stressed out at work
because there's a whole bunch of stuff to do we feel like the world is gonna
crush our spirits and that your goals feel years away if not even impossible
if you want to become more productive and have a better life in general you
were going to need to start finding ways to manage your stress better one way I
recommend to do this is to start going to the gym now this is not only a great
way to build your body up but it also combats stress over time you can
literally watch your body grow and your mind together which really helps me
seeing where I was and where I used to be and where I am now managing stress or
lowering your cortisol levels as a scientist would put it is one of the
best way to increase your overall productivity also before we in this
video I want to let you know if you want the complete list of 25 habits to get
rid of to live a more productive life check out the PDF that
work really hard on to get the full list of habits in the description below thank
you guys so much for watching and I hope you got value from this video - see you
in the next one