leonel messi is one of the best footballers on the planet recently winning a crazy seventh
ballon d'or despite many rivals having better years whether you regard him as the goat or one
of the best lionel messi's footballing style can actually teach us a lot about productivity and
how to make best use of our time before we begin my name is francesco and this is keep productive
this is a relatively new segment where we dive into professionals and what we can learn about
them and apply to our own work so feel free to subscribe this is a new segment so if you like it
feel free to like this video as well now i want to hone in on two lessons that messi can teach us
the first lesson is think smart now if you watch football you'll know messi recently moved to psg
from barcelona having a super amazing career at the club whilst being at barcelona naturally like
many footballers messi clocked up an impressive amount of miles but surprisingly a lot of it was
done walking one statistic shows it off really well in a game that barcelona beat real madrid
three nil messi scored and goal and assisted a goal yet in the five miles he covered during the
game he walked 83 of it now powers of football also shared that last season's champions league
messi covered less ground but scored an average of one goal an assist per 90 minutes with a lot less
ground covered this is an interesting approach to football and something that we can apply to our
work practices in life watching messi during games you can see he makes an attack when he sees space
and opportunity but rests himself when times don't require that when messi is on the field
he doesn't equate the amount of energy exerted to an output he takes the chances that he sees best
fit whilst this does look lazy the conservation of energy can be huge and you can see from his
impressive statistics that this approach speak for themselves so thinking smart conserving energy and
picking the right time to do things and being able to just evaluate the situation is a great way to
approach work and it's something that a lot of us don't think about our conservation of energy can
be incredibly important when it comes to managing our day and keeping those strong weeks versus
strong days effective so the second lesson is to pause before you begin now messi has well over 600
goals now however none up until this day have been scored in the first 120 seconds or two minutes
now you're probably saying this is probably lucky actually it's not messi uses the first 120 seconds
to scan weaknesses evaluate how players interact and plan his strategy ahead now although we don't
traditionally see goals in football in the first 120 seconds this is something we can see messi
working out on the pitch as he walks around viewing the interactions and watching the game
play now this really reminds me of that abraham lincoln quote if i only had an hour to chop down a
tree i would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe and this is something a lot of people tend
to just do when have a new project or a new task they may jump in and feel overwhelmed and
naturally stressed as they get near the end of it and sometimes pausing before you begin
evaluating the situation and working out where your strengths and weaknesses are is actually
and could be one of your most effective techniques whether that's through doing
a short journal before you begin a major project or even being able to evaluate all of the elements
of the project or tasks before you do it that can really really help so folks let me know if
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let's all be a bit more productive like leonel messi and try and score some winners
during our work days thanks very much folks and i'll see you soon
ah