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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Becoming More Productive

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

There are only two determining factors whether you’re busy; whether you’re accessible and how productive you are. You want to focus in on your accessibility and productivity when you look at your calendars. Create your own rules and your own philosophies and you will be, not only a student of your calendar, but you’ll be able to manifest accurately and rapidly whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

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Most people work an eight hour day and they get two hours of productivity.

0:05.0

I get eight hours a day and I get seven hours, seven and a half hours of productivity.

0:09.0

That's already three to four times what most people get.

0:12.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:14.0

One other thing that happens with important is that we need to prioritize things.

0:18.0

Who here thinks that we do urgent things first?

0:21.5

How about important things before urgent things?

0:23.6

We actually should do the most important things first.

0:26.9

Urgency is a matter of emotion, right?

0:29.0

We create an urgency.

0:30.7

Who here has created their day with the most important thing to do,

0:34.6

but they get so busy that by the end of the day,

0:37.4

you hit yourself in the

0:38.2

head and go, oh my God, I never called that person. It's a matter of prioritization. It's a habit. It's

0:42.8

understanding the bigger picture that we need to do what's important first, right? If there's

0:48.3

urgent and important, that's great, but then most important and then urgent. That performance will be

0:54.0

critical in the three components

0:56.0

of how to be productive.

0:57.7

Productivity is very simple, it's a measurement to me.

1:00.7

I actually am productive 64 hours a day.

1:03.5

And the reason that I'm productive 64 hours a day,

1:05.7

I call it the power of 64,

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