Every day is a new chance to be productive

In the episode:

01:27 - Do what energizes

02:19 - Are you really a morning person?

05:43 - Break workaholism by knowing THIS

07:02 - Take things off your plate

08:14 - The most-ignored, easiest thing to do

09:15 - Releasing the overwhelm

11:05 - Spend a lot less time HERE

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Transcription:

James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today's episode, 552, I'm sharing with you seven tips to make sure you are being productive and never feeling guilty about taking time off. As I've been writing my book, which is coming out later this year, 2017, or early 2018, I’m just putting the finishing touches to some chapters. And recently, I had a podcast, episode 550, called Perhaps You're Measuring Success Wrong, which really resonated with people around me. I got a lot of emails, and shares, and comments, and people said, "Yes, you're speaking to me."

So I wanted to just continue on this theme and help you reduce some of this overload and overwhelm and guilt that comes around from the idea of being a workaholic. The hustle, grind, pushing the limits. So I want to give you seven useful tips to make sure that you're being productive but not feeling guilty. So let's get straight into this.

1 - Choose projects that energize you

Tip number one is choose projects that energize you, and be realistic about how much can be achieved by you in a month. Remember, you've got about 160 productive hours and when those hours are gone, you get blunt. Choosing shorter, easier projects can definitely boost your sense of momentum. You should expect and really want whatever result you're doing all this work for.

So whatever goals you've set, whatever your mission is, should mean something to you. If you don't want it or you're not prepared to pay the price for it, you're just a dreamer heading for disappointment. So choose these projects well. I've also done an episode on Which Project You Should Work On. So you could look up that episode as well. That episode was 545 - Which Product or Service Should You Focus On? I think that will help you.

2 - Work at the prime productivity parts of the day

Tip number two, work at the prime productivity parts of the day. Often this will be the first thing in the day or you hear plenty of people talking about doing things very early in the morning. I used to think I was a PM person, like a nighttime person. I did most of my business building between 9:30 and 3:00 in the morning, 9:30 p.m.