Productivity and Mindset with Darren Danks

Episode 5 - Tomorrow never comes

I’ll finish that job tomorrow

I’ll get back to the gym tomorrow

There’s a huge problem with this… tomorrow never comes.

If you’ve heard of Mel Robbins, you’ve heard about her 5 second technique. She doesn’t count from 1 to 5, she counts from 5 to 1 because of 2 reasons:

We’re used to taking action when the countdown gets to 1 or 0 (think rocket launches)

If you counted up, you can get to 5 and your mind knows it can keep counting to 6, 7, 8 and not take action when needed.

The same thing applies to “tomorrow”, we can get to the next day and STILL keep telling ourselves “tomorrow”

If you want to raise your productivity, achievements and success, you need to stop saying “tomorrow” and instead, stating an actual day and date.

When it comes to productivity and strengthening your mindset, we need to eliminate the word “tomorrow” when it comes to doing tasks.

 

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We’re told we need to set goals and that advice is absolutely correct, but we need to go further

This is why I ask if you create tasks from your goals.

We must set long-term goals, they give us direction, but they need to be broken down to smaller chunks.

Once we have the small goals, these need to become projects and tasks in our task management apps and systems.

Set deadlines, make task notes so there’s a greater chance they will be completed.

Goals are the ideal, they’re dreams, desires and needs.

Tasks are definite items. They have set due dates, they’re a tangible entity that you work on each day and week.

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We give our time awayWe give our energy awayWe give our success away

And all because we find it difficult to say no.

Some interesting quotes about saying no…Steve Jobs: “Focusing is about saying ‘no.’”Warren Buffett: “We need to learn the slow ‘yes’ and the quick ‘no.’”

There are many reasons why we find it difficult to say no:

We don’t want to upset anyoneMore in the show

The implications of not saying no:We give away our time.Listen to the show to hear more.

How to embrace saying no:Check out the show to find out how to begin to embrace saying no.

Learning to say no helps you protect your time, your energy and your productivity.

 

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The Productivity and Mindset Podcast - Episode 2

We all do it, sometimes often, sometimes not. We wish, wish our business was more successful, wish our podcast was magically published, whatever the wish is, we make a lot of em!

How good are you at taking action and making those wishes happen?

You have enough wishes collected, now it’s time to stop wishing and start acting!

We wish we had this, we wish we’d done that. Those wasted wishes soon become moans, complaints and regrets and very quickly our time and energy get taken over by them instead of being focused on something productive that’s going to make those wishes a reality.

We risk being overcome by procrastination. That’s something that can completely kill your forward momentum and success.

What can we do?

 

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The Productivity and Mindset Podcast - Episode 1

Today’s question: Does your time match your goals?

You get productive, you set your goals.

You set them for 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 months and you feel great and you feel productive.

But many times, the reality is disconnected from the plans.

We waste time on social media instead of creating it.

We watch video instead of making video.

There’s a complete disconnect between your goals and what you fill your day with!

I talk about this in the show and give a couple of ideas to help stop this happening.

 

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