Any recommended resources for productivity?

Wake up productive by Eben Pagan.

It is not a book, it is a 12 week course.

David Allen's Get Things Done, can be awfully complicated, with lists for at home, or at office, etc. I suggest you have a look beyond the mere techniques he uses, and look at what principles he is following, and then using those principles,and come up with something that fits right for you. Such as:

How are you capturing and organising everything you want to do??
If a job is a 2 minute job, are you doing it straight away, or putting it on a to-do list for later??
When you have something come across your desk do you ask, is it reference or what's the next action on it??
Do you have a review system, to ensure you are keeping your finger on the pulse of your projects and plan the following week (this is the one I don't do enough off )


My other time management insight, is that there is no such thing as time management, only self management. We all only have 24 hours in a day, and no matter what we do, that is all we are ever going to have. The key is to look at it as self management, and what are you going to do to ensure you spend your time on the tasks you want to do.

Cheers

Josh

Hi imogenhobbs
What are you using for the Do, Delegate, Divide, Dump system? Is it a software?

are you doing prodictve thing the most productive time of the day for you to do them.. or are you using the 9-5 mindset of getting things done . so you are working in the late morning hours and the early after noon hours .

i have listened to Dan Kennedy on this and you would probably get something out of reading his time management . and the 4 hour work week was never really about working just 4 hours a week ..it was more about huning down and eliminating busy unproductive work .

a lot of studies i have looked at about productivity ..is for the most part 3 hours of real productive work is the most people usually can handle ..yes people put more hours in.. but even for highly productive people three hours .

think abour profesional lawyers . athletes musicians ..even actors.. will smith may work 20 hours a day when he is making a movie..but how much of that time is really spent in front of a camera shooting film .

and football players the game is only a few hours a week and they are not even on the field half the time ..everything else is working out looking at film ..developing game plans . and that is 16 week for most teams 29 or 20 for the best team that year .

i may be spouting bullshit here .. ..but you can be productive 10 hours a day and still not feal like you are productive enough .

there is a point where you max out productivity . and if you use up all your time and energy. you get stuck there .

the best thing to do is to find and work those times of day you are most productive and protect those and let nothing stop you from working those times ..sept maybe imprisonment and a family member passing . then use a lest productive times of the day to do things to make you more valuable or get more valuable clients . personal improvment/marketing

start from the premis that you can only produce real quality work in three hours a day .. and the rest is craft development/marketing and paper work .

let me ask a real silly question .. and i am not meaning to sound sexist on this .

say you have a big pot .. that tomato sauce was let to dry inside ..it just dried .wasn't burned on there .

do you spend the 20 minutes scrubbing out the dirty pot .. in one chunk of time ..

or do you put water in the pot .. ..put the pot to the side for an hour let the water soak into the sauce for an hour ..so it takes 3 minutes to scrub out the pot ..

now it silly .. i know .

time management ..is great is the thing you want to talk about .. when you get together with people is how busy you are.

what i got from Dan Kennedy .. is that once you hit the max productivity point .

you don't have a time management issue . your prices are to low. so it is time to start raising prices

Me and my team have been there - business combined with family, friends combined with always keeping up with things and upgrading knowledge etc can be very overwhelming.

My simple solution for the team was the 80/20 rule. That simple.

At the end of the day there is only one "you" and there is only so much you can do.

Pick out the things you ABSOLUTELY have to do and also the things that give you 80% of your results and just concentrate on those things.

The rest of the things put them on maintenance.

Then when you do this for a while rotate it and take some of the things from the maintenance and start working on those.

Hope this helps!