What are the rituals that highly productive people apply? How do you allocate your time and resources to maximize performance in your field?
In our current era in which the massive distraction produced by the excess of information and possibilities, it is more than necessary to focus our energies on what provides a differential nuance in the results we obtain through our performance.
We live full of requirements and obligations that "prevent" us from thinking creatively to organize, specify, and in some cases suppress tasks that can be easily delegated. However, this lack of creativity is not marked by the enormous amount of tasks that we must undertake, but by our inability to take initiative about those tasks and distribute, limit and delegate them optimally for its best resolution.
In the words of Anxo Perez: "If you give ten, when you could give a hundred, you have not won ten, you have lost ninety".
We have to avoid at all costs anchoring ourselves in the mentality that I call "the occupation mentality". This means keeping ourselves busy by always being busy with something or someone at all times. Much of the current western population is in this situation of overdrive, hyperconnectedness and a compelling need to get to it all and multitask. This type of mentality guarantees disaster in our work and life performance, and it is very unhealthy for our mental and psychic state.
A productive person is above all a conscious person; someone capable of extracting the maximum validity from weather that you have to live a profitable life in all possible areas. The mindset that derives from this reflection is that productive people create the ideal framework of possibilities so that the day works in their favor and not the other way around. They are the ones who consciously decide how to plan the day, and do not expect to resolve events according to how they happen or arrive.. Consciousness and initiative are two key aspects of the productive mindset.
What are the parameters or rituals applied by those who maximize their daily productivity? Here are 5 effective methods to achieve it:
This is a term that I have coined, and which refers to one of the essential keys to master productivity. Leadership, productivity and management experts, such as Tony schwartz Y Peter drucker advocate working in 90 minute productive cycles. This is so, since the peak of concentration is between 60-80 minutes, beginning to decline drastically after 90 minutes..
These cycles help maximize productivity, creativity and efficiency of tasks performed, reaching great levels of success and focus on performance. After 90 minutes it is advisable to take 5-10 minutes of rest to energize and alleviate the mental load associated with the task, and repeat the cycle.
An anchor is a particular external stimulus associated with a specific set of emotional states. Its mission is to be able to constantly and deliberately access an empowering mental state that facilitates the achievement of tasks, objectives and goals. For example, an anchor can be a particular music that arouses in us a powerful sense of self-confidence, the repetition of this fact, added to the clear visualization in our mind of the behavior in question, produces an unbeatable feeling of confidence..
If we want to achieve efficient productivity we need to deliberately enter into competent emotional states that bring out our entire arsenal of capabilities..
Planning and organization They are two fundamental resources that govern the behavior of highly productive people. They divide their main goal into small daily objectives, duly organized in a concrete and measurable action plan. They establish short, medium and long-term objectives, thus achieving a broad organization chart that encompasses the whole and the specific parts of that whole. And finally, they establish mechanisms that help prioritize the tasks that are unavoidable in pursuit of the final objective to be achieved..
I once heard a phrase from Tony robbins that was etched in my memory forever: "Food and physical exercise are the necessary fuels to achieve excellence and improve our productivity". I totally agree. A correct diet accompanied by a balanced physical exercise are two basic components to cement our progress in all areas.
If we want our mind to function at the best level, we must nourish our body with high quality foods (fruits, vegetables, legumes, vegetables and nuts), as well as a medium intensity cardiovascular exercise (45 min-1 hour). This will provide us with lightness, a high dose of energy, concentration and a correct mind-body-spirit balance..
These three aspects are key for anyone who intends to make a effective use of your daily time and achieve high levels of productivity. It is important to delegate tasks or actions that can overload our daily activity and occupation. If we have any friend or partner who knows how to more effectively solve a problem we have, in order to dedicate ourselves to what we have established as a priority, let's do it without any doubt.
Knowing how to say that it is NOT vital to have a sustainable success over time. If we always do what others ask us without question, we will postpone what is important to us, and we will act based on what others want, and not based on our pretensions.
You have at your fingertips the ability to internalize tools and rituals that broaden your perspective in order to gain productivity and efficiency. Start building powerful habits today that will take you to the peak of your possibilities. Upload the ribbon of your actions it depends exclusively on you.
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and concentrated effort ".
Paul J. Meyer
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