Become More Productive by Robin Sharma

21 Tips to Become the Most Productive Person You Know

I wanted to help you create explosive productivity so you get big things done (and make your life matter).

Here are 21 tips to get you to your best productivity.

#1. Check email in the afternoon so you protect the peak energy hours of your mornings for your best work.

#2. Stop waiting for perfect conditions to launch a great project. Immediate action fuels a positive feedback loop that drives even more action.

#3. Remember that big, brave goals release energy. So set them clearly and then revisit them every morning for 5 minutes.

#4. Mess creates stress (I learned this from tennis icon Andre Agassi who said he wouldn’t let anyone touch his tennis bag because if it got disorganized, he’d get distracted). So clean out the clutter in your office to get more done.

#5. Sell your TV. You’re just watching other people get successful versus doing the things that will get you to your dreams.

#6. Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm).

#7. Run routines. When I studied the creative lives of massively productive people like Stephen King, John Grisham and Thomas Edison, I discovered they follow strict daily routines. (i.e., when they would get up, when they would start work, when they would exercise and when they would relax). Peak productivity’s not about luck. It’s about devotion.

#8. Get up at 5 am. Win the battle of the bed. Put mind over mattress. This habit alone will strengthen your willpower so it serves you more dutifully in the key areas of your life.

#9. Don’t do so many meetings. (I’ve trained the employees of our FORTUNE 500 clients on exactly how to do this – including having the few meetings they now do standing up – and it’s created breakthrough results for them).

#10. Don’t say yes to every request. Most of us have a deep need to be liked. That translates into us saying yes to everything – which is the end of your elite productivity.

#11. Outsource everything you can’t be BIW (Best in the World) at. Focus only on activities within what I call “Your Picasso Zone”.

#12. Stop multi-tasking. New research confirms that all the distractions invading our lives are rewiring the way our brains work (and drop our IQ by 5 points!). Be one of the rare-air few who develops the mental and physical discipline to have a mono-maniacal focus on one thing for many hours. (It’s all about practice).

#13. Get fit like Madonna. Getting to your absolute best physical condition will create explosive energy, renew your focus and multiply your creativity.

#14. Workout 2X a day. This is just one of the little-known productivity tactics: exercise is one of the greatest productivity tools in the world. So do 20 minutes first thing in the morning and then another workout around 6 or 7 pm to set you up for wow in the evening.

#15. Drink more water. When you’re dehydrated, you’ll have far less energy. And get less done.

#16. Work in 90 minute blocks with 10 minute intervals to recover and refuel (another game-changing move I personally use to do my best work).

#17. Write a Stop Doing List. Every productive person obsessively sets To Do Lists. But those who play at world-class also record what they commit to stop doing. Steve Jobs said that what made Apple Apple was not so much what they chose to build but all the projects they chose to ignore.

#18. Use your commute time. If you’re commuting 30 minutes each way every day – get this: at the end of a year, you’ve spent 6 weeks of 8 hour days in your car. I encourage you to use that time to listen to fantastic books on audio + excellent podcasts and valuable learning programs. Remember, the fastest way to double your income is to triple your rate of learning.

#19. Be a contrarian. Why buy your groceries at the time the store is busiest? Why go to movies on the most popular nights? Why hit the gym when the gym’s completely full? Do things at off-peak hours and you’ll save so many of them.

#20. Get things right the first time. Most people are wildly distracted these days. And so they make mistakes. To unleash your productivity, become one of the special performers who have the mindset of doing what it takes to get it flawless first. This saves you days of having to fix problems.

#21. Get lost. Don’t be so available to everyone. I often spend hours at a time in the cafeteria of a university close to our headquarters. I turn off my devices and think, create, plan and write. Zero interruptions. Pure focus. Massive results.

I truly hope these 21 productivity tips have been valuable to you. And that I’ve been of service. Your productivity is your life made visible. Please protect it.

We hope you love these 21 tips as much as we do at The Supa Group...now get going to your more productive self!

The Supa Group Team

www.thesupagroup.com

Strategic Acceleration

In today’s ultra-competitive world, getting superior results faster is absolutely critical to success! So many want it! However, this hectic speed of life makes it easy to become side-tracked by things that steal priority and make us less effective. People are hungry for ways to get ahead, to win, to accelerate results both personally and professionally.

The Strategic Acceleration approach is based on three pivotal concepts:

• Clarity: Understanding your targets clearly and the “why” behind reaching them (personally and professionally)
• Focus: Concentrating on what really matters, and filtering out what doesn’t
• Execution: Using effective communication (persuasion) to get things accomplished

It’s about developing a clear vision, outlining priorities and objectives, and tackling goals with a real sense of urgency and focus. Once understood and deployed, Strategic Acceleration will have a powerful, long-term positive influence on the results and success that so many people want.

CLARITY

When clarity is lost, or never achieved, it is almost impossible to generate the kind of focus necessary to establish a dynamic organization capable of acting swiftly and deftly on a daily basis. Clarity is achieved when we know where we are in relationship to where we want to go. The gap between the two is where focus must be applied.

The principle of clarity requires a specific clearness of mind that is unmistakable and evident to all. Clarity is achieved when ideas and concepts are clearly explained and presented internally and externally.

The requirements for clarity are specific with respect to three issues:

- Purpose – relates to the “why” of things

- Value – relates to the real benefits that can be acquired

- Objectives – relates to the premise that unless objectives are stated clearly and understood by all, the likelihood of achieving them is slim

FOCUS

There is a gap that must be crossed between current conditions and the ultimate vision. Focus is achieved when the critical success factors needed to propel us across the gap are identified and understood. Focus is the ability to keep those main things the main thing as we go.

If we do not have focus – if organizations do not grasp the main things required of them – then decision making becomes difficult, awkward and mushy. To cover up this cancer, bureaucracy grows and when bureaucracy is mature a culture of indecisiveness is born. At that point, focus becomes very difficult to achieve. Sometimes, only legitimate threats to survival of the enterprise can trigger the action needed to fix things.

The primary characteristic of an indecisive culture is excessive preparation. Excessive preparation involves endless planning sessions and meetings that serve little or no purpose except to provide an illusion of progress. An organization composed of people who are constantly “getting ready” to act is an organization that has been shackled by itself. It is not focused and is unable to act because of its indecisiveness. Strategic Speed is impossible in such an environment and results will rarely meet or surpass expectations.

EXECUTION

Clarity and focus provide your plan of “what” and “how,” but when it’s time to get things done, it’s all about actually “doing” it. This might sound simple, maybe even overly so, but this is where you’re going to spend most of your time. Approaching it well-prepared and with the right philosophy will make all the difference towards your success. 

Using strong persuasion skills, you’ll be able to get support from others who can help you execute, and will undoubtedly benefit from your success. Being able to clearly and confidently state why your vision is authentic and important is the key to persuasion. From there, you’ll be well-aligned for production, or getting things done faster and more efficiently.

This will enable you to really stretch your paradigms and see where you can REALLY go, which will undoubtedly be far beyond what you thought you were capable of reaching!

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The Supa Group Team
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