Productivity

Question 1

Optimum Team Size

Answer 1

You are more likely to reach goals if you’re working with just the right number of people.
Too many people = People get Lazy
Too few people = Not enough encouragement

Question 2

Shirking

Answer 2

Tendency to do less that the needed effort to reach your goal

Question 3

Optimizing productivity

Answer 3

EVERY HOUR:

1) Take a multivitamin
2) Drink some Water
3) Get some Carbs
4) Do some quick Cardio
5) Switch Tasks
6) Meditate

Question 4

Taking an “Airplane Day”

Answer 4

Go somewhere with no wifi, and just work your ass off toward something for about an hour.

Question 5

“Eating the Ugly Frog”

Answer 5

Always look for the suck-iest task you could do, and do that one first

Question 6

Task Quadrants

Answer 6

List only the top priority tasks

1) Urgent
2) Important
* DO THOSE THINGS

Question 7

Limited Preparation for Productivity

Answer 7

Only take the 24 hours you need to prepare to do something, then stop and actually start doing it

Question 8

6-Most-Important Postit

Answer 8

Quickly List the SIX Most Important Tasks, And do THOSE (Be Specific)

Question 9

The “Two Minute” Rule of Productivity

Answer 9

If something can be done in just 2 minutes, do it RIGHT NOW, don’t even write it down

Question 10

Steps to stop planning

Answer 10

1) Know the six categories: Health, Wealth, People, Creation, Research, Achievement
2) Ask what you can do RIGHT NOW to make progress in just one of those things
3) Do it NOW

Question 11

Golden Hours

Answer 11

Keep track of the best hours for your work

Try to cram as much progress as you can into that time period as soon as you hit it

Question 12

2 Step Productivity Process

Answer 12

1) Think: What can I do RIGHT NOW to make progress on any one of those six areas
2) Do: Get off your ass and make it happen

Question 13

Three Elements of “Mental Planning”

Answer 13

1) Intra-personal Intelligence: Know yourself and know what you need to do to make these things happen
2) Repetitive Planning: Get Practice with all the “modeling methods” you’ve listed in your spirals
3) Mental Health: See the medicine section

Question 14

Three Tasks Organization Methods

Answer 14

1) Quadrants
2) “Eat the Frog”
3) High Priority Six
* Have thses memorized so that you wont need to write them down

Question 15

Strategies for “Doing”

Answer 15

1) Airplane Days
2) “Two Minute” Rule
3) Identify “Golden Hours”
4) Maintain Passion
5) “Forcing Functions”

Question 16

Maintaining Passion

Answer 16

1) Stay Healthy!!!
2) Actually Set the Goals
3) Stay involved, ESPECIALLY when you don’t feel like it
4) Use Moderation
5) Encourage and TEACH others
6) Remind yourself “I don’t loose Passion”
7) Learn from Mistakes and then move on

Question 17

Forcing Functions

Answer 17

An event that requires you to take action:
A coming deadline
Preparation for something big
A great personal reward
The threat of loss
*Always have one of these lined up

Question 18

3 Factors of Productive environments

Answer 18

1) Passion: intense enthusiasm
2) Encouragement: Providing Support
3) Urgency- Using a forcing function

Question 19

Body Doubles

Answer 19

People work better when there is someone with them, even if that person isn’t working

Question 20

Eliminating Perfectionism

Answer 20

1) Set a time-limit for getting the step in the process done
2) If it’s not 100% by the deadline, Oh well, It’s time to move onto the next step
Priority #1) Get it done
Priority #2) Get it done well enough

Question 21

Methods of Eliminating Time Wasters

Answer 21

1) “Whitespacing”
2) Standup Meetings
3) Be Decisive

Question 22

Productively Reading

Answer 22

1) Move a pencil vertically down the page or the screen
2) Glance at each line and pick out the most important phrase or word
3) Ignore what comes before or after a comma that separates clauses
4) Pick what’s most important in a paragraph and underline it
5) Single out individual words and underline them
6) PRACTICE

Question 23

Cultivating Decisiveness

Answer 23

“No” needs to be the default mode

1) Minimizes the likelihood of regret
2) Minimizes Risk
3) Saves you from lengthy debates on making a decision… that is often times “no” as it is

Question 24

Delegating to help reach personal goals

Answer 24

1) Never be afraid
2) Ask a friend for their help
3) Give them an IOU
4) Actually SEND a thank you card
5) Call and make sure that they actually got the thank you card
* You can also use freelancer websites

Question 25

Delegating Process

Answer 25

1) Analyze how time is actually spent
2) Decide which tasks need to be assigned to someone else (based on an honest evaluation of your personal skills)
3) Decide WHO could best handle each task
4) Delegate the Authority
5) Create the Obligation
6) Make sure they actually follow through on the task

Question 26

Automating

Answer 26

ALWAYS worth the time
Ask someone to build a robot or program that will do something so that you don’t have to
….Eliminates time wasters, and helps you develop new skills

Question 27

“Late Sunday” Preparation

Answer 27

Stay up late Monday night to get a leg-up on the work load for Monday

Question 28

Properly Meditation

Answer 28

1) Solitude
2) Binural Beats (4-7 Hz)
3) Warm area
4) Passion Flower Tea
5) Dark Blue Light
6) Silence

Question 29

Procrastination

Answer 29

The tendency to put off tasks
Reasons
1) You're scared
2) YOU don't want it
3) You're trying to do it all by yourself
4) You're bored

Question 30

Getting Psyhced

Answer 30

1) Be around like minded People
2) Do something high-energy/active
3) Share an awesome idea
4) See Evidence of Success (find a case study)
5) Get some awesome music going
6) Remind yourself of the mission

Question 31

Staying Organized

Answer 31

1) Never save to the Desktop
2) Take first two minutes every day to re-schedule
3) Identify negeative habits so that you can WORK
4) Set realistic expectations

Question 32

Recurring Lack of Productivity

Answer 32

Mean you’re dealing with:

1) No Passion
2) Bad Timing
3) Fear

Question 33

The Simple First Step

Answer 33

Ask: “What can I do in 2 minutes to prepare to make this thing happen?”

• email
• phone call
• purchase
• outline
• quick fact

Question 34

Avoiding Distractions

Answer 34

Use "I Dont"
-I dont skip workouts
-I don't skip meals
-I don't show up late
-I don't cheat
... It's just part of who I am

Question 35

Positive Self-Talk

Answer 35

1) Make a PST recording that you can listen to
2) Accomplish something small so that you can remind yourself that you do infact accomplish things when you put your mind to it

Question 36

Personal Time Management

Answer 36

1) Increase Project Hours- Limit Unbelievable time
2) Increase Rate of Progress
- Get help
- Complete research/preparation

Question 37

Multitasking for money

Answer 37

1) Workout at work+HealthyWage to make money with weight challenges
2) Make helpful friends at work+ask outside friends to pitch in
3) Do some amount of research while you’re at work+Use an app that pays you for your research
4) Make achievement progress at work+Do achievement for which you will be paid

Question 38

Multitasking for Health

Answer 38

1) Start using quick cardio to keep yourself productive towards a given task
2) Workout at Work (Labor Job)
3) Get people who are willing to workout with you
4) Get yourself a cycling desk

Question 39

The one thing you should never ever do if you want to be productive…?

Answer 39

Compromise… Compromise is a bad habit. As soon as you start to think that its okay to do something that breaks a habit, breaking habits becomes its own habit. If you find you have compromised…. Self correct immedietly