10X Your Productivity [0:00:00]
In today’s video, twenty five tips to 10X your productivity.
And the best part, you don’t have to implement but just a few of these tips to star to see
results.
Are you ready, guys?
Let’s do it.
[Music] Tip number one and this one is really important.
You need to identify what is important to you and then go after that.
Understand, gentlemen, most things in life it’s noise, it does not matter.
Now, you probably heard of the Pareto Principle that 20% of your effort yields you 80% of
your return.
But, did you know there’s a deeper Pareto Principle that 4% of your effort yields you
64% of your return.
What you want to focus in on is that 4%.
Those few things in life that really matter those skills you want to pick up, those people
you want to spend time with, and that’s what you need to focus your efforts.
Next up, focus in on the small wins, the 1% improvement every day.
Why 1%?
Because it’s achievable, it’s easy.
And here’s the thing, when compounded overtime over the period of a year a 1% consistent
improvement day in day out is going to yield you a 37 times return.
37 times more efficient more effective if you focus in on becoming 1% better, 1% more
effective every single day.
Next up, gents, be intentional with your time.
Be specific where you’re going to spend your time.
The more specific you’re going to be in your calendar both with your personal and
your business, the more likely you are to actually follow through.
So, when I go through my daily calendar, at 6:00 AM, I’m meeting with my workout partner.
At 8:00 AM, I went took my daughters to the pool.
At 8:30 AM, I had a managers meeting.
Guys, when you’re specific with your time both business and personal and you’re intentional
with every moment, you’re going to be able to get more out of it.
The next tip to be more productive, do less.
And this one sounds really counterintuitive.
How do you get more done if you’re going to do less?
Oftentimes if we have two hours to do a project, guess what?
We’re going to get it done in two hours.
If we got twenty minutes to do that same project, we’re going to find a way to get it done
in twenty minutes.
How do we do that?
Because we cut off all the things that don’t matter, we focus in on what is truly important
and we get the job done.
So, the next tip to improve your productivity is to double up on those tedious tasks.
We’re talking about laundry, dishes that yard work.
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while you’re doing those mindless tasks.
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Next up, don’t multitask.
And I know that it goes exactly against what I just said.
Not really because what I was talking about there is doing something that’s mindful
with something that is mindless.
So, what you don’t want to do is try to do two things that are mindful at the same
time.
Next tip is to delegate.
As a dad, I appreciate this.
I’ve trained my oldest daughter to take care of her younger sisters.
But, I know for a lot of people let’s talk business; you don’t have an assistant so
you can’t delegate things off.
But, you kind of can and here’s how you do it.
So, what you do is things are coming in, you’re going to make a decision of what you’re
going to focus in on right now and what is going to go to the side.
Next up, focus in on one thing especially one thing at a time.
You’re overwhelmed you’ve got twenty five things on your to-do list.
Okay.
So, go through identify what is going to be the most important thing that I can actually
accomplish in a relatively short amount of time and get it done.
When you can accomplish that one task and you realize, hey, I’ve got forty five minutes
left, I can go off and get more things done.
It feels great.
And make sure to write it down and then mark it off.
That feels good as well.
Next up, unplug from social media at least turn off the notifications.
Yes, you’re maybe going to miss what’s going on on Facebook or Instagram, but guess
what?
You’re going to get more done, you’re going to be more productive.
Now, these three I’m going to roll together because they’re related and that is to consume
less caffeine, to get more sleep, and when you’re sleeping, sleep in a room at a lower
temperature.
[0:04:57] So, let’s talk about consuming less caffeine.
For me, the rule is no caffeine after 10:00 AM.
Caffeine will affect your body about five to eight hours after you’ve last had some.
So, realize if you’re drinking a coffee at 4:00 PM at 8:00 PM, you are going to have
trouble sleeping that night and getting enough sleep.
So, the issue with enough sleep and I know this sounds counterintuitive, how does more
sleep help me?
Because you’re going to make less mistakes the next day, you’re going to be more alert
you’re going to be more effective in getting things done.
And sleeping at a lower temperature.
So, when you sleep in a lower temperature you are more likely to actually sleep soundly
throughout the night.
Next up, let’s talk about vacation and the key here is you need to take your vacation
days.
So, Ernst & Young did the study and they found that for every ten hours of vacation a person
took, they productivity went up by 8%.
The point is is that you become less productive if you go and you skip your vacation.
So, I think the Europeans have it right, make sure that you take your vacation you take
your off time.
Next up, stop worrying.
So, we worry about things that we have no control over that really, you know, probably
are never even going to happen.
And that affects your present state of mind because if you’re worrying if you are not
focused you are not present and you are not giving your best effort right now.
This next tip to increase your productivity is a big one and that is when you’re doing
something when you’re focused on a task, understand the reason that you’re doing
it and how it’s going to pay off in the long run.
What’s the why?
And when you have that underlying reason, you’re going to find that you’re going
to be much more focused and you’re going to be able to just zero in and get into the
zone much easier.
So, if you understand why you’re actually doing the work, you’re going to be a lot
more productive.
Next up, gentlemen, eat your frog and I’m stealing this from Brian Tracy.
What he talks about is whenever you’ve got to get things done, you identify that ugliest
that worst task, the one thing you do not want to do and you start your day with it.
I’m not telling you to go out there and eat frogs literally, but what I am saying
is identify that ugly task that thing that just been on your to-do list forever.
Wake up early and knock through it and, boom!
You’re going to feel great.
Now, this next tip is kind of old school, but when you’re on a project you’re running
into issues with communication, talk to somebody.
I know that we’ve got email, we’ve got text, we’ve got Slack, all these great tools,
but, guys, those can take a project that honestly should only take two hours and all of a sudden
it expands out, expands out to two days.
Guys, focus in on just having that communication.
Yes, sometimes it’s going to be a bit confrontational, you’re going to actually have to engage
with them, but you’d be surprised what you could accomplish in a face-to-face meeting.
So, my next tip for being more productive, let it go, let it go, can’t hold it back
anymore.
Let it go.
Guys, sometimes you’ve got things on your plate that honestly you just need to throw
away, you just need to give up on that project.
Maybe this is not for me, maybe this is something I need to hand off, maybe this is something
I need to save for another day.
Next up, gents, plan it out.
This is especially useful when you’ve got a complex task in front of you.
Take it and break it into smaller chunks digestible pieces that you could, okay, I can accomplish
this I can do this.
Now, it is still something it will be a large task.
It may take you months, it may take you a year to do this, but if you break it into
steps, all of a sudden it becomes something that step by step you can make your way through
it.
Next up, gents, manage your energy levels.
This is all about how you treat your body how you go to the gym how you exercise, what
you put into your body, what you eat, what you drink.
You need to find out what is going to make you the most productive human being you can
be because otherwise you’re kind of shooting yourself in the foot when you’re not actually
running on full charge.
Next up, gents, be present.
If you are here, be here, don’t be thinking about the future don’t be thinking about
the past.
Guys, be present.
And when you’re present, you give a hundred percent of your mind hundred percent of your
energy and you’re going to be incredibly efficient at what you’re doing.
Next up, gentlemen, finish what you’ve started.
So many of us like to have multiple projects multiple irons in the fire.
We like to be 90% done with this one, 20% done with this one.
The problem here is that you haven’t finished any of these.
And when it comes down to it, people want projects seen to the end.
If you are to give one hundred percent of your time and effort to one project, you’d
be amazed at what you can accomplish.
Next up, turn hesitation into action.
I’m stealing this from Mel Robbins her 5 Second Rule.
And what she talks about there is that so many times we sabotage ourselves, we’ve
got these dreams these things we want to do, those people we want to reach out and contact,
but we stop, we hesitate.
We use fear to actually stop ourselves from doing what we know we need to do.
So, instead go, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then do it.
Next up, let’s talk about quitting and this is different than letting it go.
You let it go, you move it to tomorrow maybe next week, but if you quit, you’ve given
up on it and this has a negative connotation to it, but it shouldn’t because sometimes
it’s just this isn’t right for you, this is consuming you are not going to win this
fight and you need to realize that.
I’m not saying to give up prematurely, but I am saying sometimes the fight just isn’t
worth it, you need to move on.
Now, this next tip is really simple.
Do not use the snooze button.
That extra twenty minutes, thirty minutes of sleep is not going to help you, you’re
going to be rushing throughout the day.
Guys, when your alarm goes off, get up, just shoot out of bed.
If you snooze, you’re going to lose.
[0:09:55] Now, this next tip is one of my favorites
because we use it at Real Men Real Style and that is when you’ve got a meeting whether
it’d be with a group of people or with one person, set a time.
I know with our company meetings, they were getting long like ninety minutes and I said,
you know what?
This can’t happen.
We cut it down to forty five minutes.
Then, we cut it down to thirty minutes.
Now, we’re at fifteen minutes.
Now, there are a lot of things we covered in, yes, ninety minutes, but I said, you know
what?
A lot of these can be formed out to smaller meetings between individuals and we keep this
fifteen-minute company meeting and, yes, we have a timer going so that helps us stay on
track.
Now, this next tip is one of my person favorites and that is unless it’s a, hell, yeah; it’s
a no.
And this really comes down to be cautious with your yeses, be liberal with you nos.
The thing is if you say yes to everything, then all of a sudden when you got an amazing
opportunity come up, you’re not going to be able to take it because you’re not going
to have time to recognize it.
So, say no to a lot more and when all of a sudden that amazing opportunities right in
front of you, you can say yes and you can give it your all.
Now, gents, I need to be honest.
I stole tons of this information from great thinkers.
And if you want to go grab the books where I took these information, guys, go check out
Audible.
I’m linking to them down in the description.
I absolutely love Audible.
And some of those books in case you’re wondering are Essentialism by Greg McKeown.
I absolutely love this book.
I listen to it every single month.
For me, it’s like showering, it’s something you need to listen to again and again.
Next up, we’ve got Deep Work by Cal Newport.
I actually love this book not only because I’m featured in this book, but because he
really gets down to focusing on work that makes a difference that’s going to improve
your career is going to have a huge impact on your business.
Next up, we’ve got the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod.
I love how he makes the case about why you should wake up early and give up being a night
owl.
Next up, Measure What Matters by John Doerr.
I absolutely love this guy, he consulted with the founders of Google with tons of other
companies on helping them to zero in on looking at what matters and to measure it because
what is measured can be improved.
All right, guys, as you can tell I got tons of books here on my Audible account, but it’s
a lot more than just audiobooks.
I love learning I love education, but guys it’s about action.
So, I want to hear from you guys down in the comments. What action are you going to take
today? Which one of these tips are you going to actually implement so you can start to
become the man you know yourself to be?
That’s it, gents.
Take care and I’ll see you in the next video.
[Music]
It’s a good song.
I’ve got three daughters, what can I say?
I have heard the song probably I don’t know a couple of thousand times.
[Music] I know the lyrics too.
Sorry, you’re not going to hear me sing it.
[Music] And it looks like I’m the queen.
That probably came off wrong.
All right, guys.
See you later.
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