A new way of looking at productivity to produce more not with less but withOUT stress.

A new way of looking at productivity to produce more while eliminating stress.

Productivity isn’t about time or task, as you’ve probably thought about it before.

It’s about energy.

These are three new ways for you to look at your energy.

  1. Use the morning to the fullest
  2. Use two-hour blocks
  3. Stop working at night

Golden Mornings

The morning is when you have the most energy. The world’s top performers have all figured this out.

Specifically this looks like: waking up early, exercising, and doing your most important task for the day first.

This habit of daily reprioritizing creates momentum that eventually eliminates your current stress about doing the wrong tasks in the wrong order (you’re stressed because you should be - your body is trying to tell you that you’re doing something wrong).

Choosing high energy as the first domino to drop for the day allows for exponential compounding of your energy as the rest fall effortlessly. This creates the opposite of a sleep debt effect - instead, a positive energy account emerges with compound interest added every day.

Feeling as energized as you do the first day back from a vacation - every day - is normal for the professionals I work with.

Two Hour Blocks

The human brain - for the non-reptilians reading this - takes 30 minutes to refocus on a task after switching.

You probably know this strategy as batching, but do you consistently implement this practice?

If you’re working for any less than a half hour on one particular task, you’re using a child’s brain. No wonder you find it so hard to get all your work done.

If you can’t pick one task, decide upon work categories and stick to tasks within one category per two hour block of time.

As a bonus, I encourage a full lunch break each day and other rest periods between blocks because biology always wins when it competes with mindset.

Stop Working Late

Of course, sometimes shit needs to get done. I’m not talking about that.

I’m talking about your regular habit of continuing to work past dinner while you’re convinced you’re being productive. You’re not.

Really, you’re being lazy.

Failing to prioritizing unemotionally - or at all, which is what I often see - results in more work needing to be done later when you have less energy.

Additionally, letting yourself get distracted during your two hour blocks will make a night time workload possible.

Proper prioritizing and committing to two hour blocks in your day makes night time work unnecessary.

That’s it for now friends. Hope this helps, and message me if you have any specific questions on this or other elements of your productivity.

Dedicated to your success,

Sam Gray.

 

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