Coaching for Leaders

151: How To Be More Productive, with Tim Stringer


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Many of us struggle with being more productive. Here are four steps we can all take to get better results.


Guest: Tim Stringer
Holistic Productivity Online Courses
LearnOmniFocus.com

“There’s only two problems in life. Either you don’t know where you’re going or you don’t know the next step.” -Tim Stringer, paraphrasing David Allen

Tim recommended Tony Schwartz's book Be Excellent At Anything*
Step 1 - Reflection

Tim recommends journaling to separate the noise from what’s most important
The Day One app* is an excellent resource for this

Step 2 - Accepting life as is
Step 3 - Focus on one thing

A positive shift in one area of life will influence many other areas
It’s a lot easier to get early wins by starting with one area first

Step 4 - Inspired action

Work on a specific action for a 90-day period
Think a strategize about your action like it’s already occurred

Strategies

Name projects the define the objective
Due dates only when things are actually due

Resources

OmniFocus for the Mac* and iPhone*
LearnOmniFocus.com
Holistic Productivity Courses
Holistic Productivity from The Omni Group on Vimeo.

Practical action

Try journaling for a week

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