Sharran gets bombarded with the same questions: how do I become more productive? How do I do more in my day? If you need help in this area and want to know how to maximize your day, this episode of Million Dollar Playbook is for you. Sharran lists the 10 Simple Things Productive People Do Differently. From having a morning routine, to committing to ONE to-do list, these simple changes help you get organized in a way that will speed up your processes. Tune-in to the self-proclaimed productivity junkie to find out how you can start becoming more productive TODAY.
3 Key Points
- Set your goals AHEAD of time and focus on those daily goals.
- Commit to a calendar; when you block off time for a particular task, there is no more room for anything else EXCEPT that task.
- Your powerful daily routine will supercharge your whole day, making you more productive.
Show Notes
- 00:10 – In today’s episode, Sharran addresses the Number 1 question he is asked:
- 00:18 – How do I supercharge my productivity? How do I do more?
- 01:02 – Sharran wife’s call him the productivity junkie
- 01:30 – “Productivity is not linear”
- 01:50 – If you can make one shift in your business, you can do a lot more
- 01:58 – Sharran has 10 things that productive people do differently
- 03:08 – There are 2 kinds of people:
- 03:16 – There are those who have a powerful morning routine
- 03:21 – And those who are underperforming because they don’t have a powerful morning routine
- 03:42 – It’s all about a powerful morning routine
- 03:56 – First: commit to a powerful morning routine
- 04:14 – Sharran was a part of public accountability group where they made a 5am call, everyday
- 04:33 – Reading is one thing that can be a part of your morning routine
- 04:58 – There’s nothing more powerful to supercharge you than committing to a powerful, morning routine
- 05:29 – Second: commit to working from my calendar
- 05:38 – Steve Olson is committed to working from his calendar
- 05:50 – When you commit to things on a calendar, you don’t have a space for anything else
- 06:00 – Choose to focus on the activities on your calendar alone
- 06:50 – “That is a day by design”
- 07:10 – Third: commit to using one to-do list manager
- 07:39 – Everything you do, put it into one place
- 08:20 – Sharran uses Wunderlist
- 08:45 – Fourth: commit to a unified inbox
- 09:23 – Sharran uses his inbox like his mail box
- 10:29 – Sharran processes his email as soon as he gets one
- 10:36 – Sharran sends himself an email on things that he has to work on
- 11:30 – If you don’t have one unified inbox, your life will break
- 11:40 – You can inform people that you only respond to one specific channel
- 12:02 – Sharran’s 2 strategies that can change the way you think about the world:
- 12:17 – First is, every folder that is non-bill related, put them into an archive
- 12:39 – Productivity is about how fast you can do something
- 12:46 – How you search is everything
- 13:08 – Second strategy is to find a digital repository that can hold all your digital files
- 13:27 – Stop holding onto every document
- 13:40 – Sharran uses Evernote
- 14:12 – Fifth: commit to one digital file in the cabinet
- 14:43 – Sixth: commit to building a templated response for everything
- 15:23 – One of the listeners asks what should they do if a client is high-maintenance; communicate with care, but in a prompt way
- 16:05 – Everything will depend on the nature of the relationship
- 16:37 – It’s okay to respond instantly, but give the clients a timeline for the response
- 18:00 – It’s our responsibility to respond to their urgency
- 18:54 – Customer service is providing value in a good state of mind
- 20:40 – A templated response dramatically reduces stress
- 20:46 – Managing productivity is eliminating stress
- 20:50 – Write your templated response thoughtfully
- 21:48 – Have a structured voicemail
- 22:35 – Seventh: every productive person commits to daily exercise
- 22:43 – Tony Robbins said that 80% of what we do is psychology and 20% is mechanic
- 23:40 – The fastest way to impact that psychology is through your body
- 23:45 – Commit to daily exercise
- 23:55 – Eighth: commit to asking or creating the outcome for every single meeting before it starts
- 24:25 – You will then know if the outcome was accomplished
- 24:52 – It’s not about the agenda, it’s the outcome
- 25:50 – Ninth: commit to delighting in someone every single day
- 26:28 – Go out of your way, if needed, just to delight in someone
- 26:52 – If you can delight in someone every day, the impact will be amazing
- 27:56 – Tenth: is where Sharran fails every day but tries to improve
- 28:19 – Ultra productive people do an amazing job planning for tomorrow BEFORE the day ends
- 29:29 – “Design your day the day before, that will change the way you look at every single day”
- 30:00 – Peter keeps too many documents and doesn’t know what to search for
- 30:30 – Sharran suggests writing a subject line in the most descriptive way possible
- 31:00 – Second is to just stop caring
- 31:30 – You might be spending too much time searching
- 32:00 – We spend strategic energy trying to solve a problem that may or may not exist in the future
- 32:23 – If you need to find something, at the end of the day, you’ll still find it
- 32:48 – Share to Sharran and Peter your feedback about the episode
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