Dan Martell - January 04, 2016


How To Be More Productive as a CEO


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4 minutes

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965

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53

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In this episode, I talk about how you can be more productive in your business and in your life. I give you my top 4 tips on how to become more productive and how to be a little more productive every day.

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00:00:00.000 How to be productive.
00:00:01.720 That's what I'm going to share with you guys in this video
00:00:03.060 because a lot of people, they want to feel energized.
00:00:06.880 They want to feel charged in life.
00:00:08.640 They want to feel like they're producing
00:00:10.120 and contributing to the world.
00:00:12.180 But I don't know about you,
00:00:13.440 but sometimes you go through your day
00:00:14.700 and you're like, I didn't get anything done today.
00:00:16.760 And then you got to work nights,
00:00:17.720 you got to schedule your weekends,
00:00:18.900 or you just feel like you're actually not making
00:00:21.700 forward movement in your business, right?
00:00:24.160 Where you're just kind of going sideways.
00:00:25.820 And I totally get that feeling
00:00:27.000 because when I was building my company, Sphere,
00:00:28.740 I had about a dozen employees and we were growing,
00:00:31.500 but we kind of plateaued.
00:00:33.080 And every day just felt like this crazy putting out fire days
00:00:36.500 that at the end of the day, I would look at my task list
00:00:38.580 and I was like, I didn't get anything done, right?
00:00:40.800 You'd start off with this optimistic feeling like,
00:00:43.000 oh, here's all these grand projects I'm gonna move forward. 0.99
00:00:45.680 And at the end of the day, you're like, crap. 0.99
00:00:47.500 Again, another one, a loss. 0.97
00:00:49.180 So what I wanna share with you guys is my strategy,
00:00:51.140 these four key areas to just be more productive
00:00:54.540 because to me, it's not about to-do lists and tasks.
00:00:58.180 A lot of people think it's about how do I prioritize
00:01:00.580 and write down all my to-dos.
00:01:02.380 Yes, that's important, but that actually is not
00:01:04.260 how you're gonna generate true productivity.
00:01:06.580 You know, what I wanna start off,
00:01:08.060 the number one thing you need to nail
00:01:10.220 is have a mission for your life, right?
00:01:13.500 Most people can't be productive
00:01:15.300 because they don't know where they're going.
00:01:16.740 What is the focus?
00:01:18.140 Why do you get up every day? 0.99
00:01:19.540 And not just for the business, for your friggin' life. 0.98
00:01:22.380 Why, right? 0.92
00:01:23.940 Have that mission for your life
00:01:26.300 because that will give you the energy, the focus,
00:01:29.840 the permission to actually say no to things,
00:01:33.040 to stay on track, to complete a project,
00:01:36.080 to really focus on the right things.
00:01:37.780 So having a mission for your life is number one.
00:01:39.980 Two is plan it.
00:01:41.420 So once you know kind of what you wanna get done,
00:01:43.760 actually sit down and say, okay,
00:01:45.680 what are I gonna get done this month, this quarter,
00:01:47.560 this year, have a plan.
00:01:49.860 You know, if I ask you to show me your plan
00:01:52.060 and you don't have a plan, or you had a plan
00:01:53.820 that you wrote six months ago,
00:01:55.600 but you haven't revised it, that's a problem.
00:01:57.980 And that's essentially when you work a day
00:02:00.500 and you feel like you didn't get anything done,
00:02:01.760 it's because there was no plan.
00:02:02.920 You didn't plan the day.
00:02:04.300 Because if you plan the day and you say,
00:02:05.300 this is what I need to get done,
00:02:06.220 then when people come to interrupt you, you can say no.
00:02:09.560 So that's the second thing is have a plan.
00:02:11.460 The third, and this is the most critical,
00:02:13.800 it will change your life,
00:02:15.340 is if you have a project, schedule it.
00:02:18.100 Schedule your day.
00:02:19.800 Look at your day and your week and design the perfect day.
00:02:23.620 Design the perfect week.
00:02:25.180 incorporate the different pillars of life,
00:02:27.400 like friendship and family and health and spirituality
00:02:31.060 or whatever it is for you,
00:02:32.020 just make sure that it's part of the design.
00:02:34.620 When you have it part of the design,
00:02:35.820 then it's not a hard thing to actually follow
00:02:37.720 because you know that it's on purpose
00:02:40.060 for what you're trying to get done.
00:02:41.540 So schedule it.
00:02:42.380 If you're working on a project,
00:02:43.560 it needs to be in your calendar.
00:02:44.740 You know, show me your calendar
00:02:45.800 and I'll show you your success.
00:02:47.500 I just know that for a fact.
00:02:49.000 If you were sitting here, I'd ask you for your phone,
00:02:50.880 I'd look at it and go, I don't see the plan.
00:02:53.140 I don't see the schedule.
00:02:54.040 I know what you're trying to get done in your business,
00:02:55.540 it's not here.
00:02:56.960 Do yourself a favor and put it in your calendar.
00:03:00.120 The fourth most important step in all this
00:03:02.440 on how to be productive is share your mission for your life
00:03:06.560 with people, with anybody.
00:03:08.300 If you have a plan, if you have a mission,
00:03:10.440 if you have a vision for the five-year strategy
00:03:12.260 of your company, share it.
00:03:14.000 Share it with your employees, share it with your spouse,
00:03:16.000 share it with your brother, share it with your family.
00:03:18.220 Just the more you talk about it,
00:03:20.560 the more it becomes top of mind,
00:03:22.540 the more every time you sit down to actually plan,
00:03:25.080 it's just part of that ingredient.
00:03:27.380 And to me, that is probably the biggest game changer
00:03:29.880 from a productivity point of view.
00:03:31.020 You're like, Dan, this has nothing to do with prioritization
00:03:34.520 and A, B, and C priorities.
00:03:36.160 No, this is not.
00:03:37.380 This is not big rock, little rock stuff.
00:03:39.120 This is just pure mindset to get productive,
00:03:42.660 to produce, to contribute to the world
00:03:45.060 because that is your responsibility.
00:03:47.660 You're here to produce and contribute,
00:03:49.540 so be sure to share your story.
00:03:51.600 I wanna hear it, I wanna ask you guys,
00:03:53.340 if you have a mission for your life,
00:03:54.980 leave a comment below and tell me what it is.
00:03:57.660 I wanna hear from you, practice sharing that story.
00:04:00.320 Even if it's a three-word sentence,
00:04:03.020 just leave it below, leave me a comment.
00:04:04.700 If you know somebody needs to see this video,
00:04:06.300 feel free to share it with them,
00:04:07.520 and I'm gonna ask you to subscribe to my channel.
00:04:09.640 And as for usual, I wanna challenge you
00:04:11.080 to live a bigger life and a bigger business,
00:04:13.040 and I'll see you next Monday.