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Based on a book about the remarkable story of the author’s Erica and Mike Schultz and their Son’s five year fight for life.
Sometimes our most productive times can come during a period of adversity, as it did for the authors.
During a study of thousands of extremely productive people, they came up with 9 habits based on the use of something we all have in equal amounts, time.
T.I.M.E
Erica and Mike Schultz found a method of breaking down time into distinct segments during each day:
- Treasured Time – cherished time most special to them on a personal level.
- Investment Time – generates returns that exceed the work you put in.
- Mandatory Time – time doing day-to-day thing you must do.
- Empty Time – wasted time, surfing web, social media doing nothing.
Key message:
Maximise Treasured and Investment Time – Minimise Mandatory and Empty Time.
Extremely productive people manage their time better and so can you.
Develop these 9 habits.
- Recruit you Drive – Your WHY.
Write goals and break them into annual, quarterly and weekly goals and manageable chunks or tasks.
Motivate yourself.
- Ignite Your Proactivity
Fill your daily calendar with Investment Time activities. Prioritise your Greatest Impact Activity or GIA – the activity with the greatest long-term return on your detailed concentrated effort.
Develop better habits to put more of your time into GIA activities to turbocharge your productivity.
- Re-engineer Your Habits
Identify unproductive habits, such as spending hours on social media or doing nothing on your daily commute, and upgrading them. For instance, you could upgrade your time on social media to learn a new skill or listen to a productive podcast during your Mandatory Time commute to and from work.
Another tip is to turn off unnecessary notifications on your smartphone, which distracts your mind away and breaks your concentration, or train yourself to not instantly react to them.
Changing your environment can also affect your concentration. Fix the problem or work somewhere that makes you more productive.
- Obsess Over Time
Obsessing over your TIME means working out where every activity fits within that structure.
Make sure your priorities are reflected in your daily routine.
Take Treasured Time
Increase Investment Time
Minimise Mandatory Time
Eliminate (as much as possible) Empty Time.
Successful people value and seldom waste time, like when I spoke to John Assaraf and met the likes of Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy.
Its not just about what you do, but what you don’t do.
- Say No
Have a clear idea of what’s really important.
When someone asks you to do something that doesn’t fit in with your priorities, have the courage to politely, but assertively to say “no”! That doesn’t mean saying no to your boss by the way!
- Play Hard To Get
Concentration. Distractions are everywhere these days, especially our inbox and numerous message boxes. Does every message need to be dealt with immediately?
Don’t try to be always available to everyone. Block out time to concentrate on your schedule and your most important GIA tasks. Your time is your own.
- Get In The Zone
How to get in the zone and stay there.
Set aside 90 minutes of work and break it down into short sprints with breaks in between.
- Develop Energy
Take care of your body by eating nourishing food, getting enough sleep and exercising.
Don’t waste mental energy on unnecessary things.
- Right The Ship – Get Back On Track When Life Knocks You Down
Sometimes things go wrong and knock you off course and you have to pull yourself together.
Identify bad habits like ordering another beer or glass of wine to constantly checking your phone.
You have free will and free won’t.
Break down large tasks into small ones.
Make a contract with yourself to achieve something important to you like losing weight or getting fit.
The above habits do not require any harder work or effort than you are putting in now.
It’s the same with becoming financially free. You can become wealthy and financially free without working any harder than you are right now. In fact, it could be less.
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