Five tips to 10X your productivity.
All right, guys, I get this asked of me all the time, �Antonio, you�ve got four kids,
three
businesses, two passion projects, and a wife that hasn�t left you.
How in the world are you
managing all of these?�
Guys, we all have the same twenty four hours, what you decide to do with that twenty four
hours is going to determine how your life is going to turn out.
Everyday you�re making a
decision am I going to go in this direction or go in this direction or am I just not going
to move
at all.
In any case, wherever you want to be in life, understand that you control that and you,
being more productive can help you get there much faster.
In this video, I�m going to share with you my five tips to be incredibly productive.
Hopefully one
of these resonates with you, you�re able to take it and you�re able to move forward.
At the end
of this video, guys I will explain why I�m shooting this in the raw why it doesn�t
have all my
fancy edits, but without further ado, let�s dive into it.
So, point number one is that not all projects not all work is created equal.
There is high value
work and there is low value work.
And this is going to change as you become more successful as
you move throughout life, things that you used to love spending time doing you probably
won�t
want to do anymore and I�ll use � use some examples here.
So, for me, creating a video, very high value because that�s going to reach thousands
of men,
it�s going to have a direct impact.
Me, going in and answering one particular man�s style
consultation and he wants to start consultation via e-mail.
5 Tips To 10X Your Productivity - How To Get A Massive
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Five tips to 10X your productivity.
All right, guys, I get this asked of me all the time, �Antonio, you�ve got four kids,
three
businesses, two passion projects, and a wife that hasn�t left you. How in the world are
you
managing all of these?�
Guys, we all have the same twenty four hours, what you decide to do with that twenty four
hours is going to determine how your life is going to turn out. Everyday you�re making
a
decision am I going to go in this direction or go in this direction or am I just not going
to move
at all. In any case, wherever you want to be in life, understand that you control that
and you,
being more productive can help you get there much faster.
In this video, I�m going to share with you my five tips to be incredibly productive.
Hopefully one
of these resonates with you, you�re able to take it and you�re able to move forward.
At the end
of this video, guys I will explain why I�m shooting this in the raw why it doesn�t
have all my
fancy edits, but without further ado, let�s dive into it.
So, point number one is that not all projects not all work is created equal. There is high
value
work and there is low value work. And this is going to change as you become more successful
as
you move throughout life, things that you used to love spending time doing you probably
won�t
want to do anymore and I�ll use � use some examples here.
So, for me, creating a video, very high value because that�s going to reach thousands
of men,
it�s going to have a direct impact. Me, going in and answering one particular man�s
style
consultation and he wants to start consultation via e-mail. There�s a reason I don�t do
that
anymore because I realized I�m only helping one individual here versus on videos on articles
when I create these infographics, I know I would reach thousands and thousands, potentially
millions of men after I all said and done some, you know, I have closed down this channel,
people will stole my content and it will be still helping people. I realized that those
things are
going to bring me the bigger turn.
So, under � this is key to understand are that some of the things that you � because
it all looks
equal if you look at it it�s like a flat plating field. You have this to do, this to
do, this to do, but if
you say no to these two things and you do this which is going to yield you a very high
return,
that is what you need to do. And be very careful of these projects, these small things like
e-mail
that feels � it feels so good to get an inbox zero, but at the end of the day who
cares if you get
the inbox zero. You know I mean did that really change the world and you can fall into that
trap,
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so don�t look at it as also just zero, it�s like having no effect. It actually can have
a negative
effect.
Sometimes I know I personally don�t like to see any hate e-mail. My assistant, she
doesn�t allow
me to see it. The reason being is it actually pulled me down and I wasn�t able to go in
and
create videos, create more content and focus in on having a big impact. So, focus in on
the
projects, focus in on the work which is going to have a huge impact. Results are all that
matters
when you�re trying to be productive not the method, so make sure that if need be you
go in and
you blow up the method and you focus in, okay, this is going to have a high return, you know,
if
I want to create sales, you know what is going to help you create sales? You going out there
and
you building relationships, you talking with your perspective clients, and actually getting
out
there and making it happen.
So, number two is to have a clear vision. Now, I�m going to pull in a fun analogy.
Remember the
movie, The Hobbit? You remember when they�re going to that wooded area and the spiders
are
about to get them? But, Bilbo goes up to the top and he looks out and he breathes the fresh
air
and he sees the lonely mountain in the distance. He sees his objective and everyone down
below him, you know, besides getting tied up with spiders, they are lost they�re going
around in
circles.
Guys, you need to have a clear vision of where you want to go. So, if you want to go to grad
school, you want to start your own business, but what is the why? Why do you want to do
that?
Ask yourself -- I think it was Toyota, ask yourself five � the five whys. Go deep go
deep. And I
did this with a friend the other day, he said he wanted a girlfriend, but why do you want
that
girlfriend. And we kept going, you know, why do you want to feel good about yourself you
know why do you � and really it forces you to understand, you know, the direction that
you�re
going so that you make sure the worst thing is you do all these work. You�ve heard it
before,
you work in the corporate world you climb ladder and you find that ladder is up against
the
wrong wall. Guys, you don�t want that to happen.
Point number three. Accountability. Now, there are different ways to have accountability.
Many
of you guys are thinking, okay, that�s where someone make sure you do something. No, that�s
actually not through personal accountability, that�s having someone that is harping on
you and
nagging on you to get things done. Accountability for me actually comes from within the
person. The way that you do this is you breakdown where you�re going specific with very small
parts and you � nothing motivates like seeing progress as you get closer and closer to your
goal.
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Remember, you�ve got that vision of where you�re going so you�re making your way
to it, then
you can make it fun you can end gamification. You can � and gamification think about you
guys
have played like Legend of Zelda. Remember how as you move up different levels, your
weapons would get more powerful. You can set up games so that you can � and that can
be
incredibly simple. I have a kitchen timer here in my office that�s on my desk and
I�ll set it for
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thirty minutes and I will see how many e-mails I can knock through in thirty minutes and
my
record is about fifty five e-mails in thirty minutes. Think about that. I�m just having
fun zipping
through it and I�m getting a lot done and I�m not going to get caught and by simply
making it
fun, guys, you can � you can zip through things.
And, really quick, deadlines. Okay. So, another game that I do and I do this with my kids
is the
mornings on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I spend that time with my kids. Afternoons, I don�t
start
my work day �til 1:00 and I�ve only got four hours. So, because of that artificial
deadline, I�m
able to get a massive amount of work done because I cut out anything that doesn�t
matter.
Tip number four is to clear the path. So many people they want to do everything themselves
and they�re unwilling to invest in themselves, to hire a coach, to take a course. Think about
that. You�re going to go out there and you�re going to spend ten hours researching something
that if you simply hired a coach, they could help point you in the right direction and
educate
you and bring that research to you in thirty minutes. If your time isn�t valuable, then,
you know,
maybe sometimes you want to figure it out, you want to go through it. But, understand
there
comes a time when you need to have the path cleared for you so that you can walk on it.
It�s
not just coaches it�s also reaching out and surrounding yourself with peers, a mastermind
of
individual. Mastermind, look it up.
Actually, I�ll link in the comments to a mastermind I�m setting up for business owners
and in
that mastermind, you know, ideally we are able to clear the path for each other and
not only
hold each other accountable, but be able to show each other, hey, you�re making this
mistake,
I�ve made it before, make sure that this is what you want to do.
Finally, tip number five. Motivation. Positive motivation and negative motivation. Positive
motivation, why are we do excited as a kid for Christmas or Disneyland? I mean I know
when
my daughter has a field trip, she is up at 5:30 in the morning ready to go. Other mornings,
no,
she�s -- I�m able to barely able to pull her out at 7:00. The point is if you�ve
got something
positive that�s motivating you, you are going to jump and you�re going to be excited,
a twelve-
hour workday is going to flash by.
Negative emotion, it can actually be used and I�m going to use my personal example
of it. And,
one of the reasons I�m filming this raw I wanted to get out of here, I want to show
you I�m real.
So, my wife she had to leave the country for two weeks and my business was able to keep
going
despite the fact that I was having watch three young children for two weeks, I mean Mr. Mom
here I was able to keep my business going. The reason being is I had a negative driver
that six
years ago when I lost my sister that I said I am never going to let my business fall to
the wayside
because that�s what happened with my first business when she passed away.
I�m the oldest son, I had to go make things happen and I told myself, I will never let
� set things
up so that I�m setting myself up to fail. And that negative emotion made sure I had
a very � I
had � we had a good size emergency fund, we had money set aside. I knew her grandmother
was older I knew this time would happen and I made sure that we have the money set aside
so
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that no problem. That day, I bought an international ticket my wife is flying off. She had the
money to be able to take care of anything she needed to in Ukraine and, I had my business
set
up so that I was able to pass off responsibility to my lieutenants to my guys to make things
happen and I was able to spend time the last couple of weeks with my kids.
Guys, that is how I have 10X to my productivity. Hopefully you found this useful. And if you�re
curious, I did mention a mastermind. I�m launching a mastermind for business owners.
Check it
out, it�s going to be in the description of this video down below. And that mastermind,
it�s for
business owners, Monday through Friday, we�re going to be meeting. I�m keeping it to about
four to five other business owners. It is not free, but I can tell you, you�re going
to get a lot out
of it. I�m setting it up daily motivation and focus for business owners.
Guys, that�s it. Oh, and I am still moving out of my office. I�ve been shipping off
tons of free
stuff. If you have not joined our amazing free Facebook group, go do it. I�m going
to link to it
down below as well. That Facebook group, I had probably given away already $3,000 or
$4,000
in shoeshine, I mean I just got all these gear, I�m just giving out shipping out and
I know some of
you guys are still waiting for it. I�m trying to get it shipped out as fast as I can.
But, guys, that�s it. I�ll see you in the next video.