It's a bonus edition of The Side Hustle Show.

This is five ways to be more effective every day.

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here?

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because busy doesn't always mean effective.

We talk a lot on the show about productivity, tools and tactics and hacks,

outsourcing and delegation systems and processes, developing habits,

and it's all in the aim of getting more done.

But more isn't necessarily better, so I want to change that to getting more of the right things done,

being more intentional, proactive, destination driven, rather than just reacting to everything life throws

at us and then hoping miraculously we end up someplace we're happy with.

Because busy doesn't always mean effective. Today I want to share five ways, five key habits

I found that will help you be more effective, excited, and

satisfied every day. And then I'll introduce a new product of mine, a productivity

journal that ties all those together in less than five minutes a day.

Ready? Let's do it.

Habit number one is determining and tracking your KPI's.

Those are the key performance indicators in your life or in your business.

These are the metrics that have the biggest impact on your overall operation.

In my business, for example, the primary KPI that I track are email subscribers,

podcast, downloads, and website traffic.

One reader, a friend of mine recently asked me, dude, isn't Prophet the only real KPI that matters? And obviously profit is important. The

business can't survive without it and is something I track daily. I found it to be a lagging indicator

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