The Modern Manager

213: Planning Your Week with Demir Bently


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Be honest with yourself for a moment: Are you managing your time and tasks well? Do you have a weekly planning routine that helps ensure you’re focused on your most important work? Sometimes, just a few simple changes to your planning can help you find more freedom and fulfillment in your work.

Today’s guest is Demir Bentley. Demir teaches hard-hitting efficiency techniques and proven accountability strategies that have helped clients generate millions in revenue while saving thousands of hours. In the past eight years, he’s helped more than 50,000 professionals, including executives from Facebook, Google, Uber and PepsiCo – helping them prevent burnout and create more freedom in their lives. And, Demir’s advice has been highlighted in Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur and more.

Demir and I talk about the #1 routine you should do every week to exponentially improve your productivity…the weekly planning session. We get into how to do it, when to do it, and what makes it so powerful.

Members of the Modern Manager community have a chance to get 1 of 20 free Kindle versions of Demir’s book, “Winning the Week”. In this book, Demir and Carey Bentley reveal their five-step method that radically reimagines how you plan and execute your week. Get it when you join the Modern Manager community.

 

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Read the related blog article: 5 Steps to a Productive Week

 

KEEP UP WITH DEMIR

Website: lifehackmethod.com

Book: winningtheweek.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/lifehackbootcamp

Instagram: http://instagram.com/demirandcarey

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/demirandcarey

 

Key Takeaways:

  • There are hundreds of productivity tips, tools, practices, habits, routines. Instead of trying to do them all or sift through to find the best one for yourself, start with the fundamentals of planning your week.
    • Everyone knows about weekly planning but few people do it correctly, and most people don’t do it at all.
    • To plan your week, start by removing the frictions or increasing your motivation to spend 30 minutes on the planning process.
    • Follow these five steps: learn from how you worked last week, find one leveraged priority to include this next week, interrogate your calendar to surface issues, prioritize your to do list, add tasks to your calendar to ensure you’ve scheduled time to complete the important work.
    • It is essential to know what you want to accomplish in order to be productive. 
    • You can improve your personal productivity habits and routines, as well as increase productivity through automation, technology, and delegation.
    • All of your productivity approaches should support your desired lifestyle, helping you live the life you desire.
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