Do you catch yourself procrastinating
and letting the time of the day whittle
away while you need to be getting stuff
done? And you want to break through that
procrastination?
Well look I'm not going to talk 'about'
procrastination today because you don't
need more information. Beating
procrastination is actually about taking
action, so let's take action! What I'm
gonna do in this video is I'm gonna show
you how you can double your productivity
in the next hour. Yes the NEXT HOUR!
My name is Steve and I'm a professional
coach and trainer. I work mostly with
professional people on combining their
personal brilliance with unshakable
emotional freedom, so you can create a
happier and more successful experience
of your life and work. Tip 1 is
to clear your workspace and especially
clear it of distractions. So wherever
your workspace is I want you to go to it
now and I want you to make sure your
desk is as clear as it can be. Get rid of
anything that might catch your eye and
draw your attention away, so if you've
got magazines in there that might catch
your eye then take them out, get rid of
any devices you don't actually need. I
know you need some devices but get rid
of the ones you don't need and for those
that you do need switch off anything
that's going to distract you from what
you actually have to do. So if you need
to have your phone by because you might
need to make a phone call fine but at
least switch off Facebook, switch off
notifications, put yourself on silent so
that you don't get distracted, and shut
the door! Tip 2, and this is really
important, one of the reasons we get stuck
in procrastination is because we don't
have a simple linear list of things that
we can do, it's not like we can just pick
up the top thing, process it put it down,
pick up the next thing, process it, put it down
that but that's kind of how we want to
try and translate our work, so yeah,
whatever you've got to do I want you to
make a list: in the next hour I'm going
to do this, this, this and what I want you
to do for the next hour is just pick
them the first thing up, do what needs to
be done, put it on the out pile,
pick up the next thing that needs to be
done, do it, put it on the out pile.
In other words translate what you have
to achieve today, your goal if you like,
into linear stepwise small increment
tasks that you can do, get done. And to do
that to turn your objectives for the day
into a list of tasks you do need to do a
little bit of thinking so for the first
five minutes of the next hour I want you
to think. I want you to think: What do I
need to get done? And how do I translate
that into simple executable steps that I
can simply follow? Tip 3 is
to get out of your head because when we
procrastinate what we tend to do is we
tend to get up in our head, and think about
the work that we have to do, and then
think about our thinking about the work
that we have to do, and we start tying
ourselves up in knots, we start getting
stuck, and that's when we start reaching
for distractions: Oh I'll go and get a
snack, or I'll just have a quick look at
Facebook, or I'll just have a quick look
at this magazine, I'll just have a quick
look at emails. Well look tip 2 dealt
with translating our objects into a
simple executable list of things, but we
still need to get out of our head and the
best way I found to do that is to put
our attention in the centre of our body
and imagine that we're processing all the
information in the world from that point,
everything that we see, everything that
we hear, everything we feel, imagine that
you're processing it here rather
then up here. It'll get you out of your
head it will reduce all that noisy
thinking and it will make you in a
better position to be able to take that
list and simply work it from top to
bottom. By the way if you're liking this
video so far give it a thumbs up and
also don't forget to subscribe to the
channel and hit the notifications bell
so you'll know when new content arrives
because there's more great stuff like
this coming! Tip 4 is to
work the list but make a choice to go
at this list with the attitude of
working at it with energy and enthusiasm
and like it's the most important thing
in the world right now, because whenever
we go to a task we don't particularly
want to do and we do it thinking we
don't want to particularly be here we'll
drag our heels.
It'll become slow and painful and
we'll start seeking those distractions
again, whereas if we make the choice, look
this might not be my favorite task but I
decided I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do
it with energy and with enthusiasm and
we're going to do it like it matters,
that's how you get things on your list
done, for example there are tasks I don't
like doing, I don't particularly like
doing my tax return each year, I don't
know many people who do, but when I've
decided I'm gonna do it I shut the
doors, I clear my desks,I get rid of all
the distractions,
make a linear list of what I'm going to
do, and I do it like it matters. It gets
through it, it gets through it with energy, it
gets things done. If you want to watch
another video about how you create a
peaceful mind you can bring to these
kinds of things then watch this video
here, but do it after you've doubled your
productivity in the next hour!
Tip five is to implement some
really strict time boxes. We've already
said that you're going to spend the
first five minutes of the next hour
thinking, translating your objectives of
what you need to get done into a linear
executable list of tasks that you can
have at with energy. Then I want you to
plan twenty five minutes of focused
energetic work, but at the end of that
twenty five minutes, wherever you are,
strictly you're gonna put your pen down,
you're gonna stop, you're gonna leave
your workspace,
you're gonna hydrate, to get some drink,
get water, you're gonna have five minutes
of downtime to recharge your thinking
batteries, and then strictly at the end
of that five minutes you're gonna have
another twenty five minutes of focused
execution on that list. The reason
you need to make these time boxes strict
is because it will train you. It will
train you in how to get things done, and
of course as you probably also guessed
you can't cycle around this too many
times, you can't do a 14-hour day of this!
This is about focused work but it will
get more done and it will reclaim more
time. Another video that you might
find useful to translate your objectives
or your problem statement if it shows up
more like that into a linear list of
executable test you want might also
want to watch this video, but again save
it for now, spend the next hour being
productive and come back and have a look
at that afterwards. One of the things
that stops us being productive, one of
the things that has us searching for
distractions is stress! So I've got a
free download which is all about how to
master stress so you can free up your
capacities, so that you can bring your
best self to your work. To get access to
that download you'll find a link in the
pinned comment and in the description
below this video. Just click on that link.
it'ss absolutely free so just help yourself.
And don't forget to give this video a
thumbs up if you did like it, so it helps
other people see, please leave a comment
and most of all do remember to subscribe
to the channel and hit the notifications
bell because there is more great stuff
coming.