47. How To Be More Productive (Quantum Mastermind Recording)
Nov 1, 2018
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In this podcast, they discuss the importance of time management and productivity. They explore topics like the benefits of meditation, maximizing productivity through streamlined food preparation, and the significance of routine. They also touch on tailoring content for targeted audiences, avoiding distractions and negative comments, and creating a conducive work environment.
Designing your environment is crucial for changing behavior and making positive changes more easily.
Having a routine helps establish discipline and productivity by eliminating the need for excessive willpower and making tasks more automatic.
Staying focused and avoiding distractions, both in work tasks and daily routines, leads to increased efficiency and productivity.
Deep dives
The importance of designing your environment
Designing your environment is crucial for changing your behavior. It is a better tool than willpower because willpower is limited. By creating an environment that guides you towards the right choices and removes distractions, you can make positive changes more easily.
The power of having a routine
Having a routine can be incredibly beneficial. By waking up and going to bed at the same time, following a set schedule throughout the day, and incorporating regular activities like exercise, meditation, and work, you can establish a sense of discipline and productivity. A routine helps to eliminate the need for excessive willpower and makes tasks more automatic.
The importance of focus and eliminating distractions
Staying focused and avoiding distractions is key to productivity. This applies not only to work tasks but also to daily routines and even meal times. By minimizing distractions and focusing on single tasks at a time, such as eating a meal without multitasking, you can increase efficiency and productivity in your daily life.
Optimizing your daily routine
Finding the best routine for yourself includes factors like prioritizing workouts, optimizing sleep patterns, and adjusting to time zone differences when traveling. Figuring out your optimal routine can involve experimenting with different schedules, such as working out first thing in the morning and going to bed earlier. Adapting to time zone changes may take time but can be aided by adjusting your sleep schedule incrementally. It's also important to minimize constant travel and establish a consistent work location to eliminate unnecessary variables and optimize your environment for productivity.
Maximizing focus and efficiency
Creating an environment conducive to focus and efficiency involves eliminating distractions, optimizing lighting and temperature, and incorporating plans and animals. Avoiding distractions from social media by removing apps from your phone and only using specific devices for content creation can help reduce unnecessary mental clutter. Ensuring a comfortable workspace with good lighting, the right temperature, and minimal clutter supports mental clarity and concentration. Additionally, adding plants and having animals around can contribute to a more pleasant and stimulating work environment.
It's funny, people try to make the business so complicated. They get all worried about the latest software, the new podcaster microphone and making sure they get those hashtags just right on the gram -- but -- they completely forget about managing the most precious resource they have -- their time!
Quantum Mastermind is my highest level of training. Most people in the group are making 7-figures, 4 people are making 8-figures. It's a talented group of people who are doing well. You'd think we get into super-advanced things at this event? What's funny is, we start day 1 the same every single time by doing an audit of where people's time and attention is going. We basically work on "time management" and "productivity" for the first day. Why? Because this is where the big leverage is. Not by adding another chatbot to your site or a hashtag strategy to your shitty Instagram, by calming the hell down and focusing on doing some meaningful work that adds value.
