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Organize 365 Podcast

222 - 3 Reasons I Am ULTRA Productive

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I want to share with you three reasons that I am an ultra-productive person. Productivity is definitely a mindset and a way that I was just inherently hard-wired for, but it is something you can learn.

#1 Productive People Don't Waste Any Time

You might be thinking, “Well, duh. I don’t waste time either.” But it’s more than just not wasting time. I see time as my friend and I am in complete control of my time.

This mindset shift alone will take a while for you to cultivate, especially if you’re thinking it can’t work for your circumstances. It is a mindset.

Along with not wasting time, I reorganize my time - all the time. I see my day as blocks of time, but because I’m in control of all of my time, I move things around.

#2 Productive People Are Results Oriented

I didn’t realize until recently how I do a to-do list and how an unproductive person does a to-do list. If you watched both of us doing our to-do lists, we would both look equally busy and look like we were getting the same amount done. But at the end of the day, my to-do list is done and you feel like you never got started on your to-do list.

Here’s the difference. I measure my success each day in finished products, not actionable work. Busyness gets me nowhere.

Productive people are not busy, they are producing. That is the big distinguisher. You have to stop some of your busyness in order to get an end result, which means you have to know where you’re going.

When you look at the whole day at the end of the day, what did you actually get finished? What did you get done? What have you produced?

Productive people are measuring what we are finishing and producing, not how we are spending our time.

#3 Productive People Follow Tried And True Action Plans

The biggest secret about productivity is that it is all about experimenting and creating habits. That is what productive people do. They try, they analyze, they look at their results and then they tweak and tweak.

Productive people follow tried and true action plans. Whenever I have something new in business that I have never done before, I try to find somebody who has done that and I ask them what people they use, what system do they use, what is their process? I may tweak that for my own business, or I may tweak that for my own productivity or where it fits best in my schedule, but I don’t start everything from scratch.

The 100 Day Home Organization Program was developed by a professional organizer (me!) who took all of the spaces in your house, divided them into an organized chart, and then created the order in which you organize them according to the areas where you spend the most time and the areas of the house you have the most control.

The 100 Day Home Organization Program WORKS!

If you are looking to PRODUCE an ORGANIZE home, follow this system. ;)

Being A Productive Person

The things that I do that make me a very productive person are I don’t waste any time and I feel that my time is in my control. I am results oriented, not busyness focused, and I follow tried and true action plans to get the results I want.

If you are looking for a way to end up feeling 100 days from now that your house is more organized, I really do think that the 100 Day Home Organization Program is the solution for you. We would love to have you join us.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio.

0:10.0

I want to help you get your home organized and help you organize life stages and

0:15.7

unexpected events. So sit back, relax and let's get organized. Today on the podcast, I want to share with you three reasons why I am an ultra-productive person.

0:31.3

I have studied productivity for years and many of my friends wonder how I get so much done in one day.

0:40.0

And productivity is definitely a mindset and a way that I was just inherently hardwired,

0:46.2

but it is something that you can learn.

0:48.2

And there are three reasons why I feel I am an ultra productive person. The first one is I don't waste any time. The second one is I am

0:57.6

results oriented, not to do list oriented. And the third one is I follow tried and true action plans.

1:07.8

So let's start with the first one productive people don't waste time.

1:12.4

Well you may think well duh I don't waste time. Well you may think well duh I don't waste time either there just isn't enough

1:16.2

time. It's more than just not wasting time. I see time as my friend and that I am completely in control of my time. This mindset

1:28.8

shift alone will take a while for you to cultivate especially if you're going

1:32.4

well that's nice that you're in control of your time.

1:35.2

You know, your kids are older, you own your own business, X, Y, Z, whatever you're saying right now,

1:41.0

but I am not in control of my time because my kids are little or I work a 9 to 5 job or I need to take care of this person or it is a mindset like if you think you are in control of your time you are if you think you are not in

1:54.6

control of your time you are not in control of your time and it doesn't mean that you could

1:59.1

do whatever you want whenever you want but I feel like I am in control of my time and when I say my time I mean all

2:08.0

168 hours out of the week, not just the time from 9 to 5 when you would do a traditional day job, or not just

2:15.9

the time from 8 in the morning to 8 at night while your children are awake.

2:20.6

Some of you would love for your children to go to bed at 8 p.m.

2:23.0

Start looking at all of your time.

2:26.0

I notice this most prominently with my husband.

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