One of the greatest challenges for an entrepreneur is time. But if you think about it, each of us have 86 400 seconds per day….no more, no less. As one can’t manage time- it is what it is- how does one manage yourself and your busy-ness daily?
In Part 1, 3 strategies have been shared with you.
Here is the next 4…have a look!
4. Be an Incrementalist
Massive productivity isn’t the result of one revolutionary act.
Instead, it’s actually the result of super-tiny daily wins.
5 little acts of progress on your key plays every day deliver 1850 wins in a year.
“A small daily task, if it is really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules,” observed British novelist Anthony Trollope.
Beautifully said.
The things you do regularly are 100X more important than those things you do rarely.
5. Understand that Elite Productivity without Deep Refuelling Causes Dramatic Depletion
Try carrying a heavy load for a long time and you’ll be forced to stop in a short time.
But take rest breaks every little while, and you can go farther than you’ve ever dreamed…
Old-school performers think that the best way to get more done is to work harder. But research shows that’s actually the way to get less done.
Pushing yourself relentlessly without regular periods of renewal has actually been proven to deplete your key assets of focus, energy, and productivity over time.
The smarter move? Work in intense bursts of total focus for 90 minutes and then take 10 minutes to rest, refuel and relax. Run these cycles through your workday and watch your energy and overall performance rise to breathtakingly great levels.
6. Know The Power of The 3 S’s
Here’s a valuable idea: exceptional creativity and uncommon productivity need a space to present themselves.
Ordinary producers are always so distracted and busy being busy that there’s no opportunity for their best ideas and performance to come out and play.
Ultra-productive performers get that time alone to allow the brain to shift to the realm where their personal genius resides.
With quiet time, your brain waves shift into an alpha state. And you receive the insights and reflections that truly can move you to change the game within your industry and inside of your life.
The best of the most successful business-builders and entrepreneurial titans on the planet, understand the value of a period of daily Solitude, Silence, and Stillness. They’d carve out time to think, plan and visualize. Every 24 hours. Without fail.
And ironically, by making the time to reflect, the actions that followed were vastly more focused, productive and excellent.
By “doing nothing”, you achieve everything.
7. Practice Spectacularity
This is a made-up word.
But the principle is this:
Practice being spectacularly productive long enough and being spectacularly productive will become your way of being.
Recent science confirms it’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than think your way into a new way of acting (the super important idea here).
By behaving like the most productive person you know (for 66 days says the habit-installation research of University College of London), you’ll rewire your brain patterns to the point where world-class productivity soon becomes automatic. It will become your default. You're new normal.
And this is my great wish for you….a new normal.
4 of the best tactics for seriously amazing productivity that have helped so many people produce epic results and become legendary within their fields.
Here’s to a highly productive Q3!