Are you ever envious of highly productive people and want to know their
secret? Well then this video is for you. Also stay tuned to the end of my video
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Hi I'm Adriana Girdler and I'm president of CornerStone Dynamics and a
Productivity expert. If you want to be successful then you gotta be
disciplined, here are seven habits of highly productive people that I want to
share with you D.N.D. Do-Not-Disturb, first and really
impactful tip in order to be productive, you know on your cell phone where you
actually have that little moon when you swipe up? Put that on, you will be amazed
at how the dings and bings on a cell phone
totally distract us and take us away from our productivity. Also, putting do
not disturb on your door, that has a huge impact too and will keep you focused. Eat
your frog, your frog is your biggest task that you have to get accomplished but
something that you're probably procrastinating on, by really getting
your number one item out of the way and doing it first thing in the day has a huge
impact on your productivity, so eat your frog, get things done. Also check out a
video I have on how to structure your day with a lot more tips regarding that
aspect. No meeting Mondays, we all know how meetings can be really distracting
particularly we have so many of them, when do we get our work done? The
greatest gift you can give to yourself is don't have meetings on Monday and
ensure that that policy is taken throughout your whole organization. The
gift you give is it allows people to focus, get things done, plan for the week,
which will be better for everyone in the long run.
Follow the 2-minute rule, in David Allen's book Getting Things Done. We can
get really stressed if we postpone a lot of these smaller activities so if you
have something that is literally gonna take you under two minutes, then just do
it, don't wait because when you start accumulating that stuff, guess what? It
becomes this huge mountain and even more difficult to accomplish, so if you can do
something under two minutes, don't write it down, don't postpone it, just do it, it
has a huge impact. And in the famous words of Sir Richard
Branson, "Screw it, just do it." Embrace criticism, nobody likes being
booed and nobody wants to hear anything negative but guess what? It is part of
life and there may be a golden nugget in there and productive people understand
that they're gonna analyze everything and take it all in. What you choose to do
with it is yours but don't ignore it, look at it and analyze it, it may just
make you a better person. Don't multitask it is a myth, multitasking, it is so
distracting and it is so unproductive, we think by checking our phone, looking at
our email, working on the report, doing all this stuff at once, you know, maybe
perhaps even getting dinner ready if you're working from home, may be things we
have to do but we're actually not programmed as human beings to multitask
really well. Why do you think they have laws like, don't drive and text, because
guess what? Cognitively we can't do it, so don't
multitask, focus on a single thing, do it well, put quality into it, get it
done, off your plate and then bring on the next item. Own your morning, a big
productivity killer is to be checking your email and your calendar first thing
in the morning, about 80% of cellphone users actually check their email and
their calendars when they wake up but what happens is we get sucked into it
and all of a sudden the morning goes by and we got nothing done. Put it away,
I promise you, you will have time to get to it but focus on eating a really good
breakfast, perhaps you want to meditate and ground yourself or get a really good
workout in, feel yourself first. People who are really productive understand
that they have to take care of themselves in order to be really
productive, you gotta get your sleep, you gotta eat well and you gotta exercise,
do those things first thing in the morning so you can spend all that time
energy and effort later in the day getting to your other tasks and I
promise you you'll be extremely productive. I hope you like these tips
and tricks that very highly productive people do, I knew there's a lot more out
there, in fact don't forget my free download of additional tips and tricks
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