Energy and Focus

To be at your best when you work from home, you must pair the nature of your work with the tools and environment that are most helpful to accomplish the purpose of the task. Sounds simple, but the most advanced productivity coaching is often subtle and profound.

Here are the steps:

1. Determine what kind of work do you need to get done?

• • What category of work is it?
  • Free Day; Focus Day; or Buffer Day?
  • 3 Fold Nature of Work
    1. Pre-Defined Tasks already on lists
    2. Defining Tasks and processing information
    3. Unplanned Tasks

2. Choose the right tool

• • What tools do you have available?

3. Set up your workspace environment

• • What different rooms would be helpful?

4. Ask Questions

• • What will your stopping point look like?
  • How will you know when you're done?
  • What will it look like when it's done?
  • What will you look like when you're done?
  • What does doing look like?

We have to clean up and maintain areas of our life so we can think clearly about our work. In this episode, you'll hear why it's important to spend time on mundate activities and how they relate to the bigger picture.

Want to know the secret to getting perspective on all your commitments? The weekly refresh is a process to help you think about the bigger picture and choose where to put your energy.

Get my PDF checklist here (no sign up required)

https://joshmitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/JM-Weekly-Review-Checklist.pdf

To make good decisions on how you want to focus, you must first decide where to "point the camera" in terms of your attention. Josh Mitchell uses a camera illustration to uncover how to choose which perspective you want to see and then choose an object to then focus on within that landscape.

Sometimes the hardest person to manage is yourself. Learning the art of self-management is one of the most important skills every leader must develop. In this episode, you'll learn 4 concepts to grow in the area of managing yourself.

When you identify the different hats you wear and roles you play in a list, it becomes a powerful productivity tool. It will allow you to generate proactive thinking and planning that you otherwise wouldn't have without it.

Build your areas and roles list using this worksheet: https://joshmitch.com/areas/

Learn how to create categories so you can find what you need when you need it. You'll learn why using visual reminders of items isn't a great long-term system for organization and how to use labels to have places to keep things for when you need them.

Do you get frusturated with logging in and not knowing what your most recent password is? Managing your passwords can be a big task.

With a password manager, it doesn't have to be stressful. In this episode, you will learn 4 steps to use a password manager wisely.

1Password is my favorite tool and I highly recommend it. You can try it for free for 14 days using this link. (Affiliate link - but I'd recommend it without one as well)

A lot of things WORK but what will LAST? What will matter in 100 years? You'll hear a handful of core principles for shaping your productivity and thinking about work.