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.
Productivity and Tech: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
We all want to be as productive as possible, and we’ve never met anyone who was happy filling their time with busy work (once they realized what they were doing at least). Technology has transformed our lives and continues to do so, and our default is to believe we are much more productive than we used to be. Yet by economics standards, productivity has been falling for years. What we’ll explore today is how technology influences productivity and we’ll go into the good, the bad, and the ugly of productivity and technology. It may be productive to learn that we have a free gift that you may be interested in 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! Productivity shows up with technology in the ways we communicate, the tools we use, the ability to outsource and delegate and so many more ways. For today’s article we’re going to take a look at what we consider the best benefits of productivity from technology, where it doesn’t make a difference even when we think it does and how it can actually hurt us! 1. The Good Technology has enabled us to communicate and work with other people in ways we could never have imagined in the past. Today we can communicate synchronously and asynchronously, we instantly video chat with people around the world and has truly allowed us to globalize in a way we would never have dreamed of just a few years ago. We also have access to a tremendous amount of information, nearly instantaneously. Access to this amount of information can make us all capable of doing amazing things and eliminate barriers that would have been in place for so many of us. 2. The Bad Technology certainly makes us feel more productive. But how much of what we do is busy work instead of productive. If you’re in sales this hits home when you think about all the reporting and dual reporting, you sometimes feel you must do! Constant notifications, distractions and the erosion of personal boundaries has put us in a position where we are often working and busy but not always productive! 3. The Ugly Technology makes us feel like we can multitask. Our brains are simply not wired to multitask. We are very capable of automating tasks and for some of us, we’re very good at this. It allows us to quickly shift between different tasks. But the part of our brain that consumes the most resources, the part of the brain required to solve complex and difficult problems, that part of the brain struggles to focus on one task at a time let alone multiple. In fact, that part of the brain hates working so much it often helps us reduce complexity and take short cuts instead of working through problems. Multitasking only exacerbates this. We call these heuristics and while they can be helpful, they absolutely confirm our inability to effectively multitask. We are also at risk of technology burnout and overload. With access to social media, videos, entertainment and a never-ending supply of content it’s easy to get lost in the internet and lose hours a day, week and month using technology to no productive effect. Technology addiction is real and dangerous, and we are more at risk of this today than we have ever been in the past. What do you think of technology and productivity? 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.
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.