Episode Description:
For lucky Episode 13, I share some valuable lessons I recently learned from Michael Hyatt’s free webinar, The 7 Deadly Sins of Productivity. The website for his online coaching program is https://freetofocus.com. I do not get paid any referral fees etc. by promoting this information. I just found his free webinar so helpful, I wanted to share it.
Here are the first 2 “Deadly Sins” in a nutshell. Don’t “manage time.” We all just get 24 hours a day. Instead, manage your energy levels and concentration.
Don’t “embrace multi-tasking.” When we try to do too many things at once, we get easily overloaded and distracted, so our productivity goes DOWN, not up.
Word of the Day: productivity (noun) the state or ability of being able to produce or make something
Question of the Day: If you could change, stop, or start one thing today, that would increase your productivity, what would it be?
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Check your listening ability.
1. At 1:23, Mr. Dreyer says “right out of the box.” What does this phrase mean?
A. at the beginning
B. he’s referring to a jack-in-the-box
C. brand new
D. going back to the start
2. Do we manage time or productivity? Why?
3. What are two ways we tell ourselves we can save time? Why are they unhealthy?
4. At 7:06, Mr. Dreyer says he recently celebrated a landmark birthday. Which of the following is NOT an example of a landmark birthday?
A. 18
B. 40
C. 42
D. 65
5. Describe the law of diminishing returns.
6. The enemy of peak performance is ____________.
7. T/F Multitasking is impossible.
8 . On average, it takes ____ minutes to refocus when multitasking when you get derailed or distracted.
A. 5
B. 25
C.10
D. 60
9. Technology is a wonderful ________________ but a terrible __________________.
Answer Key:
1. A. at the beginning
2. Productivity. We are all given the same amount of time in a day, we can not allocate more or less than another. When we say time management, it is to say we are handling what we do in the time we have.
3. We skip meals and cut back on sleep. Meals and sleep are heavily important to our physical well-being. It may work for a time, but ultimately, we will become exhausted and sick because of it.
4. C. 42
5. Mr. Dreyer explains it by saying “if we are working around the clock, we will run ourselves ragged.” This economic principle is that the profits and gains from our efforts is less than the amount of time and/or energy invested in it.
6. tension
7. True. We cannot truly given 100% of our efforts to each item if we are multitasking and performing it in tandem with other things.
8. B. 25
9. servant; master
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