Monday, October 22, 2012

21 Tips to Become the Most Productive Person You Know

I don't know if I'm becoming productive lately. I guess so and I guess not! *Sigh* Anyway, I'll share to you tips to become the most productive person you'll know. Try one or try all. I'm on my way in learning them. ^o^ 

Here are 21 tips to get you to your best productivity. Got this from Robin Sharma's Blog


#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 that I’ll walk you through in my new online training program YOUR PRODUCTIVITY UNLEASHED (details at the end of this post) but here’s the key: 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.
Stay productive. :)

28 comments:

  1. Hmm.. #8, #12 and #14 seems hard to do.. hahaha! :) Thanks for sharing this! :)

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  2. Great tips, But I don't know bout the TV... But the rest makes sense.. Thanks for sharing this.. ^^,

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  3. Thanks for posting tips, this is what I needed today :) keep those tips coming.

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  4. Oh nice I like the number 18 because I travel a lot and I'm already doing that writing things during those time.

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  5. Sound tips. Gotta love good vibes on blogs. Cheers to you.

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  6. I love #4 and #5. Hopefully I can do #14

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  7. My eyes got wide when I read #5. I can't sell my TV! haha! But overall, I love your list. In fact, I'm copying it and re-blog it maybe. Is it alright? :-)

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  8. Some great tips there I need to stick to tip #15 as I am addicted to the coffee instead but have started to drink water rather than the caffeine

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  9. Hi! Nice post! start to follow you.. :D

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  10. Wow! After reading this, I say to myself, starting tomorrow I will be a productive person, I hate to be a bummer, life's too short to not be productive and waste some time! Thankyouuu for this! #bookmark :)

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  11. That was awesome tips for being productive. I might use some of them especially the listing of things that should be avoided.

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  12. Very great tips. I really wish I could get up at 5 am. There are so many things here that I realized applicable to me. I need the energy to start doing the right thing :)

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  13. whew...that was a long list but i really appreciate these tips, bookmarked! thanks...

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  14. these are totally useful tips madam! :-)

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  15. These are great tips. I like to follow tip #1 but I can't help but check all my emails, FB messages and my blog first thing in the morning. Haha

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  16. I love Robin Sharma and read two of his books. Thnks for sharing this.

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  17. I have done some of the items on your list - removing negative people etc.. and it does help you to be come more positive as you don't waste your energy on things /people that don't matter.

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  18. hahahah nataw nmn me much dito sapu l na sapul me !

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  19. I will exercise removing the negativity and embrace positivity... visiting from ComEx Oct23

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  20. great tips :) i wanna be more productive and youve hit me more than once!

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  21. Get up at 5am. I'll make this as a routine. :D

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  22. thanks for the tips...will go over them and find the ones which will be useful to me!

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  23. great tips here, thanks for sharing

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  24. Thank you for this informative read. Pero minsan mahirap hindi magmulti-task. I think women are so good in doing that :p

    Btw, would you like us to follow each other?

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  25. These are great tips. Funny but true! :) Thanks for sharing this.

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  26. Positive vibes... Come to Mama. But sell my TV, i think i'd pass to that.

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  27. Thanks for the tips! I love 'em, especially #6 and #8! =)

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  28. I always fail at no. 2. If you haven't met the world's greatest procrastinator, you are reading her comment now...

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