Know Your Enemy: Defeating Your Productivity Obstacles
Mar 20, 2023
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In this enlightening discussion, Gary Smith, a Full Focus Planner Certified Pro, shares his expertise on productivity and goal achievement. He emphasizes the importance of structured planning and organization, showcasing transformations from chaos to clarity. The conversation delves into identifying personal productivity barriers, diagnosing distractions, and developing actionable plans. With practical tips on how to effectively use the Full Focus Planner, Gary encourages listeners to commit to consistent planning methods for enhanced efficiency and reduced anxiety.
Identifying personal productivity barriers, such as fear of failure and distractions, is essential for developing effective strategies for improvement.
The new Full Focus Wellness Planner integrates self-care tracking with traditional planning to promote a comprehensive approach to productivity and well-being.
Deep dives
Introduction of the Full Focus Wellness Planner
The Full Focus Wellness Planner has been launched as a new tool designed to enhance self-care and overall well-being, alongside traditional planning features. This planner allows users to track several wellness aspects such as sleep, nutrition, hydration, and stress levels, which are crucial for personal productivity. Users express excitement and positive reviews about the functionality and additional tools, including self-care planners and gratitude tracking. The planner is intended as a replacement for the regular Full Focus Planner, offering a comprehensive approach to balancing productivity and wellness.
Identifying Personal Productivity Barriers
Recognizing personal barriers to productivity is the first step toward improvement and involves acknowledging the obstacles that impede progress. This can entail diagnosing problems in areas of life that contribute to friction, such as household tasks or distractions. A participant reflects on their tendency to avoid difficult tasks by engaging in 'cotton candy tasks,' which provide a false sense of accomplishment but distract from more important goals. Identifying the true source of these barriers, like fear of failure or overwhelming task lists, can lead to more effective strategies for overcoming them.
Creating a Plan to Overcome Obstacles
Once barriers to productivity are diagnosed, creating a structured plan is crucial to overcoming these challenges. Using phrases like 'if-then' statements allows individuals to prepare for potential distractions and craft actionable responses. For example, if someone recognizes they avoid meaningful work, they can create a prompt for themselves on how to redirect their attention. This strategy fosters proactive planning, ensuring that personal and professional tasks align more effectively with their goals, ultimately enhancing productivity.
The old saying "Know Your Enemy" is derived from Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War - a Chinese military treatise that dates back to the fifth century BC. While it's doubtful that Sun Tzu had your Daily Big 3 in mind (but, maybe he did), we can use that ancient advice to battle the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving our goals.
Courtney, Blake, and Verbs share with you two steps to making headway on defeating your productivity obstacles. After that, Courtney speaks with Full Focus Planner Certified Pro, Gary Smith, about focusing on the Full Focus system in order to achieve success.
To learn more about Gary and his coaching services, visit www.garylsmith.com.