Energy and Focus

Do you misplace things all the time? Do you have truoble finding what you need when you need it? You may benefit by having some strategies that help you stop losing things. In this episode, that is exactly what you will learn!

What do you do to celebrate the things you acomplish? What are your reasons for doing what you need to get done? How can rewards and motivations keep you aware and pushing forward?

Try waking up at 4:00am or 5:00am tomorrow and see what happens. Here are some tips of how you can actually make that happen.

Who Not How is a concept that comes from Strategic Coach and Dr Benjamin Hardy's book of the same name. In this episode, you will hear an overview of the concept and see how it can help you in your thinking and execution.

What is something you can do every day so you can get to the productive state?

Daily Flow — Morning

Check calendar

• Note today's appointments/locations - check in with people to confirm?
• Note travel time - how long does it actually take to get to these places?
• Meals - what am I going to eat?
• 60-90 minutes of clarifying and organizing - do I have this?
• Rest/recharge time
• Planed time to go to sleep

Review Next Actions Lists

• Put your eyes across your options for when you go to do work
• Pull out any critical action steps
• "You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing."

Review Waiting For Lists

• Anyone you need to ping today?

Mindsweep

• Anything pop

Ins to zero

• Clear out your inboxes (task manager, paper, email, slack, etc)

Daily Flow — Evening

Check calendar

• What actually happened today?
• What's happening tomorrow?
• Anything to communicate with spouse, family, friends, coworkers?

Mindsweep

• Anything that might keep you awake tonight?
• What has your attention the most?

In this episode, I share a collection of a few principles that serve as the foundation to my productivity. Steal them. Improve them. Add to them.

Part two of a conversation about your productivity tools. Here is a link to the mindmap I use to visualize the tools I use:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3vx81sd2l3xa37/Gold%20Standard%20Productivity%20Tools.pdf?dl=1

How often should you look at your tools and decide if they are working for you or not? You will learn how to evaluate your tools and make decisions on whether to keep what you are using or find something new.

Here is a link to the productivity tool mindmap I use to visualize this process:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3vx81sd2l3xa37/Gold%20Standard%20Productivity%20Tools.pdf?dl=1

What would it look like to wake up feeling rested and grateful? Is there an opportunity for you to rethink how you set your alarm and how you want to wake up each morning?

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What might happen to your attention and focus if you turned every notification off on your phone, computer, and tablet?