Productivity for Creatives - How To Wake Up Your Productive Genius

1. Intro - How to Wake Up Your Productive Genius: Productivity for creatives. Waking up your productive genius, how to improve the productivity and time management. Thank you for joining this class. I'm excited to have you here focusing on becoming your most productive self. Yet, in this class, we'll talk about productivity and time management. How to organize your time effectively, prioritize. Focus on one thing at a time when tablets were procrastination will use stress and overall improve your work-life balance. If there's one thing to take away from this class, it is how to create the productivity mindset. Wake up you productive genius. I've constantly try to make my work and life more effective. I've read productivity books and looked into the routines and habits of successful people, and apply those lessons to my own life. Whether it is student, freelancer, what a professional. You'll get an overview of the productivity fundamental set you can apply to your personal and professional life. It all starts with developing a productivity mindset that will simplify and improve your life. So let's get started. 2. Redefining Success - How Does Success Look Like To You?: Redefining success. What does it really mean to be successful? Or let me ask you another question. What does success look like to you? There is no right or wrong answer. And over time, the definition of success can change on a personal level. Priorities change and with more knowledge and experimentation so that your definition of success. For most people, success is a general ability to achieve financial goals and social status. Success means achieving the goals that matter to them. The most specific personal and professional goals. For most people in our modern world, money is a full thing and sometimes the only things that measure success in their lives. Advice all the material possessions they need and don't need. Luxury cars, homes, trips, and so on. With a secure key piece, money in failure only definition of success. Because financial measures and status may not affect the effect will be if you are unhappy, if you work long hours and I get personal life, maybe it's time to redefine success in your life. Today we suffer more loneliness, anxiety, and depression. And today's abundance is not always increasing or life satisfaction, at least not on the long term. Get more clarity on the vision of how you want your ideal life to unfold this year to be. Ask yourself, are you happy with your life right now, with what you've achieved so far? And what are the things that are mandatory to include in your long term success tool kit? Start by defining what success look like to you. What is your personal vision of success? Join the discussion by writing your comments below. 3. Prioritization: The Rocks Pebbles and Sand Story: The rocks, pebbles, and sand store an important lesson, prioritization and time management. There is a popular stories that can inspire you organize your time more effectively. It's called the rocks, pebbles, and sand story. This story was popularized by Stephen Covey in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. You can use this metaphor to organize your personal and professional life more effectively. Professor wanted to stress the importance of time management and prioritization. He stood in front of his class to connect the jar, filled it with large rocks, and asked his students his job for the students replied, yes, the jar is full. He added small pebbles in the jar and asked again, it's a Jarvis For the students. Agree that again, that's a challenge for professors and edit send into the jar and asked if the die was for the students. The greets at the jar was finally for. This metaphor, is an analogy for our lives. Big rocks, top priorities. Think Family, Health, key relationships, education, important projects. You need to spend most of your time here. Pebbles represent the other things in your life. Secondary importance represent just things that keep you busy. Emails, calls, bulk activities, laundry. Use this system to keep track of your progress with your work and life goals. And at the end of the year, look back on your accomplishments and say, Oh, what a year it has been. The conclusion is that if you don't put the big rocks first, you can never have space for them. So prioritize It's a big rocks first, take care of your health. Spend quality time on your key relationships, work on your important goals, projects, business objectives. The rest is just pebbles and sand. They will always find some space or they're just not important enough. 4. The 80-20 or The Pareto Principle: The Pareto principle. The principle or the Pareto principle, is one of the most used concepts for setting priorities and time management, also known as the Pareto principle. It suggests a 20 per cent of your activities will account for about 80 per cent of your results. It was named after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, back in 1895. He discovered that 80% of the wealth in Italy was controlled between 80 per cent of the population. We can apply Pareto's principle to almost any situation. This will help you prioritize your tasks time. Get an overview of the most important goals, other long and short term. Before you begin working, always ask yourself, if this task in the top 20% of my priorities, the bottom 80%. How can you apply the ETTL or TTL weight loss? If 80% real food rich in nutrients and allow yourself to more unhealthy foods for the remaining 20 per cent of the time. How can you apply the linear work? Put first things first, 20 per cent of your tasks will bring 80 per cent of your results. So focus on that 20 per cent first is the 8020 principle to prioritize any project you're working on. 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales. 20 per cent of your products or services will account for 80% of the profits. Identify them, prioritize them. We'll talk more about prioritization is a mixture of the class. 5. How Do You Move a Mountain?: Preparing for bigger goals. How can you move a mountain? Sometimes our goals are so big that they look like mountains. Almost impossible to achieve. Think about the weight-loss mountain, marathon mountain. Starting a business mountain, especially if you're starting from scratch. This goals look almost impossible to achieve. But still, there are people who lost so much weight. Then people who run marathons regularly. There are definitely people who run successful businesses. Can see one started from scratch to how do you move a mountain by breaking it into smaller pieces and carrying one block at a time. When giant goals and broken down into smaller steps, they can be achieved over time. How to approach weight-loss mountain? It's a marathon mountain. The starting of this mountain by breaking the goals into smaller pieces, creating small habits consistently. For example, exercise regularly at paces that are suitable for you, and gradually increase intensity. Start developing healthier habits with me, grow habits. Habits. Capitalize on your small means and consistency. Returns a long term can lead to results. Then in the future, you will be able to proudly look back and see what the big mountain you have more challenges like a marathon, not a sprint. What big mountains, if you will, these are past and you're proud of. And which ones do you plan to move in the future? Gens the discussion by writing your comments below. 6. The Myth of Multitasking : The myth of multitasking. Multitasking may seem a great way to get a lot done at once. Examples, and driving and talking on the phone, responding to emails, were talking on the phone, working on several projects at the same time. Writing emails during meetings, eating an origin at the same time. But research shows that our brains weren't built to multitask. We can focus on more than one thing at a time. When we think we're multitasking, actually moody switching. The brain is just shifting the focus from one place to another. We think we are being productive. However, we are being busy. Being busy is different from being productive. What most frequently happens is that we end up with more and less a pastor, very specific and automatic. Multitasking is hard, retrievable. We are humans, not robots. What is the cost of multitasking with this kind of meant them traveling between activities. The American Psychological Association has reported that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of productivity. That almost half if you're working time. Why is the cost of multitasking so high? Because our brains were never meant multitask in the first place. Multitasking is also correlated with negative cognitive outcomes. Every time the brain multitask versus focusing on one thing at a time, the brainpower goes down in the form of IQ, emotional intelligence, and more. The key is to accept the fundamental facts that might get only one thing at a time. Our brains were not designed for multitasking. So commit to only doing one thing at a time or group similar activities together for more efficiency. This is why it is important to develop strategies to prioritize your work. Focus on one at a time. Now computer or robots, where people and why we can't eliminate multitasking completely. We can learn to have more ordered non-work eukaryotic faced us better. We'll talk more about this is the nature of the Cloud. 7. Warren Buffet's Secret of Insane Productivity: What is the secret of insane productivity? Warren Buffett is one of the best investors of all times. He is also known as the Oracle of Omaha. You to be successful investments than predictions. He lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. Warren Buffett's best productivity hack is a simple tool is system. The billionaire has a simple method for deciding what to spend his valuable time on bases at one day, Warren Buffett, month after his pilot mean Steve in jokingly said to him that the fact is if you're still working for me, tells me I'm doing my job. So he taught him he seemed to system. How does it work? Right down the list of 25 tasks you wish for me to accomplish. Selected most important five goals of task list. These are your top priority. Make sure your underlying circle or mixing visible enough. Then forget about the 20th tasks. You didn't select the head, not your priority right now. But at least until you complete your five most important goals, if chosen, most people get productivity rank. It's not about figuring out how to do more. It's about figuring out how to do less so that you can have greater focus and attention on the things that matter to you. The most focused on quality, not quantity. So we use a power of illumination. Prioritization is firstly, the elimination, breaking through the clutter. Make a to-do list, eliminate first, then prioritize the most important five things on the list. Do your best to complete them successfully. Then look at the remaining 20 task list you still need or which to complete them. It looks simple. You only need to make sure you prioritize the right things. 8. How to Build Healthy Habits : How to build healthy habits. What our habits or habit is, any active engaging automatically. For example, having breakfast, drinking coffee, exercising, checking your emails for social media for a thing in the morning, driving, smoking, compulsive shopping habits, sometimes hard to build, and bad habits, sometimes hard to break, like a tree. Strong good habits, keep your life grounded. What is a key thing in building habits? Consistency, showing up every day or to break bad habits, stopped doing them. I'm just placing with something that brings you value. Cc. It usually takes 21 days to build the habit or break one. Others suggests 90 days. If along. If you don't do it on a daily basis, It's repeating the task until it becomes automatic over time. How do you build habits? Practice them on a regular basis? Set reminders around them. For example. I need to exercise today. You can put this reminder on your phone or on your desk. With a model technology is the reminders are not the problem. The real challenge is to show up, making them happen. Committee time and energy to work on the goals. Exercise develops a habit of saying, no, busy does not equal being productive, we may often fall into the trap of saying yes to please others. Let's expense of our energy, our mental well-being. To be more assertive and saying no. Setting boundaries is healthy. You don't have to feel guilty about prioritizing your own life, health and well-being. If you are a people pleaser, exercise a habit of C No more often, especially with all things you dislike or don't drink too much value. What habits do plan to build or break this year? During the discussion by writing your comments below. 9. 3 Daily Habits that Can Change Your Life: Three daily habits to reduce stress and boost your well-being. Let's talk about free lady, things that are paramount your well-being in order to stay productive and avoid stress and burnout in Indian people better and happier life. And here's how to reframe them to stress the importance. Number one, eating healthy. Let's see. Your goal is to stop eating healthy. You need to define what healthy meals and start developing new healthy habits. Instead of writing. Eat healthy, right? I fit healthy to live longer, have more energy, and be happier. Focus on the back end objective. Do you feel that reframing the goal this way makes it more valuable? Me to. Number two, exercise. Better, say I exercise will have more energy and mental clarity. You feel more motivation now me to highly productive people will take some time every day for some kind of physical activity. Status shows a positive correlation between productivity and your energy and real beings, as you can achieve with exercise. Some people will go jogging or to the gym. Others will simply engage in a 30 minutes walk or stretching with number three, sleep or better say, I slipped to be more productive field that we spend about 1 third of our lives sleeping. It seems like a waste of time, but sleep is critical to our lives. Highly productive people prioritize sleep. Usually they wake up very early at about four or 5600 AM, but still get about seven to nine hours of sleep on a regular basis. Create your best life in good habits. Not just exist, but thrive. 10. How to Avoid Wasting Time: How do we effectively avoid wasting time? Not all time wasted is wasted. Time. Timing, enjoy wasting. Can you do it with purpose is not wasted time. For example, taking time off to balance your energy and creativity levels, your brain and body in the brick from time to time. Life is for a living, right? We spend 1 third of our lives sleeping in this wasted time. No, that's normally this keeps you healthy. Sleep is paramount to your life, energy and well-being. So here's how to balance the other two-thirds of our time when we don't sleep. Ideas to make the most of your time and efforts first thing productive. Yet rid of distractions. Distractions are one of the biggest time waster. If you work on your computer, close all the screens you don't need or find distracting. Pin your desk, your home, your office. A cluttered environment, entertainer, cluttered mind. Social media is also a big time waster. Try social media detox from time to time. Make a to-do list, a physical one, not one in your head. I feel so relieved after I put my thoughts on paper or in my phone. It leaves my MySpace for creative thinking and feeling is that they don't have to worry, is that I will forget it. You some tools to organize your mind and activities. This was for groceries and other day-to-day activities that you must do. Somebody has to pay the bills to focus on one thing at a time. This is a reminder that multitasking does not work. So in order to stay productive, you must focus on one thing at a time or a group of similar tasks. Avoid wasting time by creating more space for the important things. Use technology and productivity tools to your advantage. How do you effectively avoid wasting time? Please share with us in the comments below. 11. Conclusion : Thank you for taking the time to complete this class. Remember, we all have 24 hours in a day and how you make use of your time is totally up to you. Good life is built on good habits and it requires some effort. But if you learn what works best for you and learn how to optimize your energy and time. You will be more productive, less anxious, and overall have a happier and more fulfilled life. There's one thing to take away from this class. It is how to create the productivity mindset and wake up if productive genius. Why? To enjoy a better life? How? By focusing on your high-level priorities, what do you find useful and make you happier the same time? What brings you value? But redefine success in your own terms. And you have a variety of tools to organize your time effectively, prioritize build habits, avoid procrastination, reduce stress, and overall increase your work-life balance. Applies is productivity fundamentals your personal and professional life? It all starts with developing a productivity mindset. The other productivity tools that work best for you and use them to build habits. Focus on simplicity and doing one thing at a time. Start making your life more productive today, and start creating your best habits of tomorrow. How do you prioritize and manage your time effectively? Generate discussion, and share your master's.