Am I busy or productive? How to tell the difference!
A lot of us will keep busy but it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re being productive. Unfortunately, business can sneak up on us and before we know it, we have shifted from doing productive work to simply doing work and keeping busy. As a professional and entrepreneur, it’s critical that we make sure we are being productive. Here’s how you can tell the difference between being busy and being productive. This will be productive! We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our gift to you. Access it here! What is the difference between busy and productive? Being Busy Being busy means a lot of your attention, resources and energy are going into tasks and your day is filled with getting things done. However, if these tasks are not helping you fulfill your goals and your vision or worse are merely distractions from what you really need to get done, than you are focusing on tasks that are not going to result in significant progress. Being Productive Productivity is all about how effective your efforts are in respect to your goals and your vision. Being productive is all about prioritizing the tasks that will result in the greatest return on your time energy and resources. The amazing thing about productivity is you can spend less time being productive and be closer to your goal as long as your focus is on the right activities. Here are 3 tips to tell if you’re being busy or productive! Evaluate your goals and progress Review your goals and make sure the activity you’re working on will deliver results and bring you closer to your goals. If you can’t draw a clear line between activity and results, then you are likely doing busy work and not being productive. Prioritize Take a look at how you’re prioritizing your work. Prioritization is the first step in being productive! Reflect Our time is our most precious asset, yet we rarely treat it that way. Make sure you’re reviewing how you’re spending your time and calendaring out your quarter, month, weeks, and days. We recommend using a project planner to ensure the work you’re doing will help you deliver the results you want! Are you productive? Let us know your thoughts, you can email us at info@jbandthedoctor.com! Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your soft skills to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
Two Common Ways We Kill Our Productivity
There are a number of ways we can self-sabotage our productivity. Most of the time we do this without even realizing we’re hurting ourselves more than helping. The path to hell is paved with good intentions, so they say. Let’s review two common ways we kill our productivity and how to overcome them. Want to be more productive? We have a free gift that may just help! We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you. Access it here! We Ignore Optimism Bias Optimism bias is the idea that we are better and faster at everything we do than we are. Optimism bias fall under lack of self-awareness and can have some nasty consequences. Optimism bias will have us take on more than we’re capable of and cause us to over schedule. To avoid optimism bias there is a simple hack we can utilize; for anything you commit to add 20% to the length of time you expect it will take. For example, let’s say we book a 60-minute meeting, we can expect to need 72 minutes to have a successful meeting. Doing this will leave room for meetings that run long, follow up, note taking etc. We Fail to Plan Prioritizing is more than just a to-do list. Prioritizing requires planning. For most of us planning is one of the first things we cut short when they begin to feel the pressure of time and deadlines. Yet planning will allow us to focus on what’s truly important. The next time you feel like you don’t have enough time, instead of cutting your planning, zero in on your planning and figure out what the real priorities are. By achieving our priorities and cutting out what isn’t we can exponentially increase our productivity. How do you self-sabotage your productivity? Let us know at info@jbandthedoctor.com Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
The Top 3 Benefits of Self-Care
Want to maximize productivity? If you haven’t taken a look at your self-care routine it may just be the answer you’re looking for. In this blog we’ll highlight the top 3 benefits of self-care. 6 Methods To Make Sure Your Business Doesn’t Fail We know you care about your business! Did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. #1 Top Benefit of Self Care Want to reduce anxiety? How about deal with less depression? Or, perhaps you’re interested in better concentration and decision making. SNHU details some of the many ways that a self-care routine can eliminate a whole host of negative complications that come from ignoring our self-care needs. The top benefit of self-care is providing our minds with the fuel it needs to stay mentally strong, consistently. #2 Top Benefit of Self Care Self-care keeps us healthy, physically. The average person experiences negative physical symptoms about every 20 days. Implementing a solid self-care routine can help reduce symptoms and minimize the length of time of the symptoms. #3 Top Benefit of Self Care By experience self-kindness and implementing self-compassion as part of a self-care routine we can motivate ourselves to get better! Psychology Today had a fascinating article on this recently. Perhaps most importantly, the better we’re able to be kind to ourselves, the easier it will be to express empathy towards others! When we take all these benefits together, it’s obvious that a strong self-care routine will maximize our productivity. Anything that helps us prevent burnout, keep our passion fueled and our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health high is bound to result in great productivity benefits. Is self-care something you focus on? Let us know in our private Facebook community, the EML! You can join here! Join our community We can work with you individually and in a group setting with our unique 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
3 Surefire Hacks To Boost Your Productivity
Being busy doesn’t mean being productive. Too often we are all guilty of spending our time always in motion. We can call it the grind, the hustle, whatever we want, but unfortunately, calling it by a trendy name doesn’t mean that being busy is the same as being productive. If you’re looking for ways to stop being busy and start being productive here are 3 surefire hacks to boost your productivity, immediately! 70% of Entrepreneurs fail Before we discuss our tips, did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you and you can access it right here. 3 easy to implement hacks for productivity 1. Prioritize and Eliminate Distractions When we drill down to the most important things to do every day, are we doing them? Are we consistent with them? Do we do them with a focus, integrity and passion to do them as a well as possible. Many people aren’t sure, which is a sure sign that we can get better at prioritizing. Prioritizing means getting rid of the garbage. Garbage in, garbage out. Take out the trash and be intentional with our time. Time is our most valuable asset. While we are at it, eliminate the pesky distractions that derail us from putting our focus on where it matters most! 2. Outsource We probably shouldn’t be doing that. What’s that? It’s different for each of us, but for each of us there is an intersection between talent and passion and that is where it’s often best for us to spend our time. It’s where we find ‘flow’ and the ability to deeply focus and be productive. For all the rest? Time to find someone else to hand it off to. Someone who has a talent and passion for the things you do not. 3. Automate If it can be made into a system, it is often best for us to do just that. Automation clears out our schedule from all the tasks that leech our time. Time spends can suck away your time, your focus, and your energy. Automate when and where you can to truly boost your productivity Our tips are inspired by our recent quick hit podcast, a 7 minute down and dirty dive into 3 easy to implement hacks for productivity. You can listen in to our podcast here. You can also check out our podcast on our Youtube channel right here! Watch on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDD8kWohk4 Have a topic you’d like us to discuss? We love answering your questions from the lab. If you’d like to join us and other professionals that are striving to get better every day, you can access the group here! Join our community If you’re working on enhancing your productivity, we can help! Our unique 2 on 1 coaching marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.