12. The 6 LIES Crushing Your Productivity

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like you’re doing a lot of work without getting anything done? We live in a culture obsessed with productivity… but we struggle to control our own time because we’ve been lied to about productivity for our whole lives. Laura Hanly and Garrett Linderman, two valuable members of The ONE Thing team, will help you gain control over your time by revealing the 6 lies that are crushing your productivity. In this episode you will learn... [1:40] Lie #1: Everything matters equally. [3:05] How to define the things that truly matter. [5:10] Lie #2: Multitasking. [7:45] Five steps to get super focused and control your environment. [8:50] How to eliminate multitasking. [9:53] Lie #3: A disciplined life. [10:06] How to leverage your limited discipline and create a powerful habit. [11:27] Lie #4: Willpower is always on will call. [12:09] The difference between willpower and discipline. [13:10] Why you should save your most important work for the morning. [15:16] Lie #5: A balanced life. [16:24] Why we assign undue importance to maintaining a work-life balance. [18:48] Lie #6: Big is bad. [19:02] How to think like Gary Keller – BIG and BOLD. The ONE Thing to Take Away From This Episode: Turn your to-do list into a success list! Consider the 80/20 Principle, which states that 20 percent of efforts or actions tend to produce 80 percent of results. A success list will help you make the most out of that 20 percent. Write down all of the things that you need to do. Rank every task in order of priority. Focus on finishing your #1 priority first. You don’t earn the right to work on your second priority until you finish your first priority. Limit the distractions in your environment. Put on headphones, block out irregular sounds, place food and drink within reach, and close anything with notifications (or just turn off your internet!). Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more about The Six Lies That Crush Your Productivity Lie #1: Everything Matters Equally Lie #2: Multitasking Lie #3: A Disciplined Life Lie #4: Willpower is Always on Will Call Lie #5: A Balanced Life Lie #6: Big is Bad AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU! Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog! [FREE Training] How to Start Time Blocking TODAY! Production & Development for The ONE Thing Podcast by Podcast Masters Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0	This is the One Thing Podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
0:09.0	My name's Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the One thing team in the last episode you got to meet
0:15.3	Annie Hyman Pratt who's the former CEO of Coffee Bean you got to hear how
0:20.3	focus and really narrowing it down to one thing helped her scale what
0:25.7	was a small family business into a coffee empire. So if you miss that episode
0:30.1	make sure you go back and check it out. This week we are going to talk about the six lies that are crushing your productivity.
0:38.0	Today we live in a culture that's obsessed with productivity. If you were to go into the Google machine
0:44.9	and actually type in the word of productivity, it would turn out over 215 million
0:50.8	results. And there's all kinds of articles full of advice and self-assured statements designed to help us become more productive.
0:58.0	Yet, we're all struggling more than we've ever struggled before to feel like we're in control of our time.
1:05.0	Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever feel like you look up at the end of the day and you go,
1:08.0	gosh, did I even get anything done?
1:11.0	Or you know that you're really busy, but you don't feel like you're being effective.
1:17.0	Clearly with all of us feeling this way, there's some myths, there are some lies going around when it comes to productivity.
1:25.0	I think this is a fundamental flaw in the traditional thinking about the topic.
1:31.0	Much of the material out there assumes that we have plenty of attention
1:35.5	for lots of important things and therefore we're going to get everything done if we just work at it,
1:39.6	but that's not even close to the truth and it's that misconception that people think there's
1:44.9	enough time to do it all that has spawned these six lies that are crushing
1:49.9	your productivity. I am so excited to share this. You all know I am an avid learner and I am constantly
2:06.8	looking for the edge I can find through new knowledge and incredible mentors, which is why I
2:11.6	absolutely love Masterclass so much. I've taken the art of
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