Workshop

Question 1

What is to-do list?

Answer 1

Survival list that gets you through your day. You need a list that makes each day a stepping stone toward extraordinary results.

Question 2

Core habits

Answer 2

the 80/20 rule the vital few that are at the foundation of your success that helps you to accomplish your goals

Question 3

Multitasking

Answer 3

is a waste of time, every time you switch tasks you have to activate the rules for whatever you are about to do.

Question 4

Chronic multitaskers

Answer 4

develop a distorted sense of how long it takes to do things

Question 5

To create a habit

Answer 5

requires discipline to regularly work at something until it regularly works for you.

Question 6

Habit

Answer 6

makes the hard stuff easy. Habits are more powerful than discipline or willpower because they require less effort than discipline

Question 7

It takes 66 days to

Answer 7

make a behavior become automatic.

Question 8

Will Power

Answer 8

The ability to control one’s self and to determine one’s actions. The ability to delay gratification.
Limited but renewable - It has a limited battery life but can be recharged with downtime. It has no endurance we must reserve willpower for the things that matter the most

Question 9

Cognitive overload

Answer 9

can reduce willpower causing you to make less prudent choices

Question 10

The Brain

Answer 10

is a gas guzzler it burns 1/5 of the energy that the entire body burns in a day.

Question 11

Prefrontal cortex

Answer 11

controls the executive functioning of the brain. The latest part of the brain to develop and the last tank to get filled

Question 12

When will power runs out

Answer 12

we revert to our default settings

Question 13

What takes your willpower

Answer 13

implementing new behaviors, filtering distractions, resisting temptation, suppressing emotions and impulses
Test-taking, trying to impress others, coping with fear, doing something you don’t enjoy,

Question 14

when your willpower is strongest

Answer 14

do what matters most. Don’t fight your will power build your day around it and let it do its part to build your life

Question 15

Balance

Answer 15

no one achieves balance we are always balancing

Question 16

The art of balancing

Answer 16

time on one thing means time away from another. You can’t give equal attention to everything. When you do that everything gets short-changed.

Question 17

Live your life in the middle

Answer 17

is not where the magic happens. Success happens when you live your life in the extremes. The challenge then becomes how to manage your life on the outer edge where the magic happens.

Question 18

counterbalance

Answer 18

like the ballerina en pointe

Question 19

No matter how organized you are

Answer 19

there will always be something left undone at the end of your day. That’s where counterbalance comes in.

Question 20

Two types of counterbalance

Answer 20

Internal and external - Life is lived on two planes

Question 21

Prioritizing

Answer 21

allows you to see the choices more clearly. Extraordinary results demand you set a priority and act on it.

Question 22

When you get your priorities mixed up

Answer 22

that’s when things fall apart. When you’re supposed to work work, when you’re supposed to play, play, rest rest, retreat.

Question 23

To create extraordinary results

Answer 23

you have to be willing to take everything to the extreme and be ok with what happens to the rest. Let the right thing take precedence when it should and get to the rest when you can

Question 24

We have multiple areas of life

Answer 24

some require minimum attention for you to maintain. Drop one and you feel the effects in every area. Counterbalancing helps you to keep all areas active.

Question 25

Quadrant 1 Important / Urgent

Answer 25

Do First / Manage it
Crises, Pressing problems, Deadline driven projects, Meetings, Preparations

Results in stress burnout crises management always putting out fires.

Question 26

Quadrant 2 Important / Not Urgent

Answer 26

Schedule it / focus on it
Preparation, Planning/Prevention, New opportunities, Skill improvement, Relationship building, Personal growth/Values Clarification, Recreation/ Needed Relaxation

Requires you to have inner vision requires you to live your life preventatively to anticipate the needs not to wait until they arise. It requires perspective, balance discipline. You want to live in this quadrant.

Question 27

Quadrant 3 Not important / Urgent

Answer 27

Delegate it / Avoid this
Needless Interruptions, Unnecessary events, Phone calls, emails, social media, Consecutive deadlines, Many popular activities

Results in stress burnout pressure dealing with crisis management shallow focus, avoiding plans and goals, Results in broken promises, living a life of illusion & deception, handling things that are not your emergency, not valuing your precious time

Question 28

Not important/ Not urgent

Answer 28

Delete it /
Busy work, Time wasters, Escape activities, Irrelevant calls, email, Excessive social media, Excessive Relaxation, Total irresponsibility, escapism, inability to focus.

Used to minimize stress but leads to more stress in the future. Results in not accomplishing goals devaluing time, relationships, attention, and money. possibly getting fired from job, becoming dependent on others or institutions for basic needs, wasting resources.

Question 29

What stands in the way of you achieving your goals?

Answer 29

• Survivalist relationship with time
• Poor-man habits
• Too Broad Focus

Question 30

Survivalist relationship to time

Answer 30

there’s not enough time always playing catchup. Feeling overwhelmed about what we have to do. What we have to do always appears to be bigger when we are disorganized and in chaos

Question 31

Poor man’s habits

Answer 31

we keep ourselves busy with activity, not productivity this fuels the habitual human animal, locks you in to do do do, you avoid the pain that comes with an effort which is less painful than long-term procrastination and disorganization.

Question 32

Too Broad Focus

Answer 32

Doing a lot accomplishing little