5 Productivity Principles You Need to Know!

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Today’s 5 systems you can use immediately:

1. Imperfect action: The only person in life who truly fails at anything is the perfectionist who takes no action toward anything meaningful. We use fancy words like “procrastination” or “postpone” to intellectually rationalize our inability to act on the things we want. The cure is to become an imperfect action-taker…

   

2. The Eisenhower Matrix — Urgent vs. Important:
   The problem is that we tend to focus too much of our time on the “urgent but not important” and too little of our time on the “important but not urgent.” And that’s completely backward. Often, the “important, but not urgent” things will produce the greatest results in your life. The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple tool for considering the long-term outcomes of your daily tasks and focusing on what will make you most effective, not just most productive. It helps you visualize all your tasks in a matrix of urgent/important. All of your day-to-day tasks and bigger projects will fall into one of these four quadrants:

   • Urgent & Important tasks/projects to be completed immediately

   • Not Urgent & Important tasks/projects to be scheduled on your calendar

   • Urgent & Unimportant tasks/projects to be delegated to someone else

   • Not Urgent & Unimportant tasks/projects to be deleted
     

     

3. The choice to be satisfied: 
   When you're like a productivity nerd, and you're interested in efficiency and getting more done. It's very easy for us to get to the end of the day and to just feel chronically dissatisfied with what we've accomplished. At the end of the day, it's like, "Oh, well, I wrote one newsletter today, but I could have written five newsletters. What's wrong with me? Such a waste, man. And kind of internally beating ourselves up about this. But one thing I've started to kind of tell myself recently is that I can choose to be satisfied at the end of the day.

   At the end of this day, I'll have written this newsletter. I planned to write three more newsletters, but I didn't get around to doing those. That's fine. I wrote one.

   I can choose to be satisfied with what I've done, and that's all good. And, like, it doesn't change how much work I've done by me beating myself up about it. It just makes me feel bad. And therefore, I can choose to feel good about how I've managed my time.
   

4. Pareto Principle:
   Pareto Principle – The 80/20 rule states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, or 80% of the results come from 20% of the work. Think about it. In your work, business, or side hustle, where do the results come from? Asking this question will help you determine where to invest your time. This also goes for your personal life as well. Exercise, dieting, and personal development are a few examples. This rule really shows you that you don’t have to be perfect; you just have to focus on what’s important.
   

   

5. Parkinson’s Law:
   An adage that works expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. In other words, if you plan a one-hour block for a task, you will work at a pace that gets the task done in an hour. If I plan to write a newsletter in two days, I will write it in two days. If I plan for 90 minutes, I’ll get it done in 90 minutes.
   

   

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