You may be attempting to be productive...but doing it all wrong.

Anyone can be busy. It takes some training, practice and strategy to be really productive.

It's been a theme in some of my coaching calls lately so I figured I'd share some ideas here on how to fix your "busy" or "I just can't get to the important stuff" problem.

It's easy to get dragged into other peoples' emergencies. They can seem so compelling! It's easier to solve someone else's problems than our own anyway so who cares? Then you drop what you're doing, no matter how important...and skip off with your 5 Alarm Fire Friend.

That's not going to get you anywhere. You'll eventually come back to whatever you were working on (or not), and feel like you have to start allllll over again.

Save yourself the mental anguish. Follow these rules and it'll be a golden, beautiful and productive day!

Taking your self-limiting thoughts and beliefs, and burning them to ashes is insanely satisfying - and psychologically freeing. Remove the burden and blindness of your self-sabotaging thoughts with your own F*ck It Bucket!

Being "nice" isn't actually getting you anywhere. Being KIND, however, offers clarity - and you get WAY better results.

Here's how to know if you're being nice (and getting nowhere) or kind.

You can tell yourself that the world is out to get you, and that you're not equipped to handle things..

Or you can be like Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Lion and "Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh my!" your way through the day, using phrases that build confidence, not tear it down.

Have a listen as I explain what I mean, so you can start using better words to tell your brain what to see, and how to respond to any situation in life!

Business planning can create massive anxiety: how will you achieve that  income goal next year? It's so BIG! How will you grow your business?  What if the economy tanks even more? What if interest rates skyrocket  out of control? What if...what if...what if...?   There's a much less stressful way to plan - and it involves focusing on  ONE THING and one thing only: you.   This strategy works for entrepreneurs, corporate  executives, even kids in school. Trust me - it's the least stressful way  to get the results you want.

When things get tough, or when something goes wrong, we instinctively  want to lay blame anywhere but on ourselves. But that’s not helpful and  the absolute opposite of accountability. Here’s how to stop the impulse and make peace with what you cannot control.

Most people do time management all wrong. There’s no ONE way to do it- there’s just YOUR way to do it. In this episode, I tell you how to figure that out.