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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to 10x Your Productivity

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A productive person knows how to maximize two things: the activities they get paid for and the activities they don’t get paid for. This delineation is important to make when maximizing your productivity and accessibility, so you can prioritize the activities you get paid for, as well as those activities which you enjoy the most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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.

0:09.6

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

0:14.0

This is the flavor.

0:16.0

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

0:20.0

Who here thinks that we do urgent things first?

0:23.0

How about important things before urgent things?

0:25.0

We actually should do the most important things first.

0:28.0

Urgency is a matter of emotion.

0:30.0

We create an urgency.

0:32.0

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

0:36.0

but they get so busy that by the end of the day you hit yourself in the head,

0:40.0

oh my god, I never called that person.

0:42.0

It's a matter of prioritization.

0:43.0

It's a habit.

0:44.0

It's understanding the bigger picture that we need to do what's important first.

0:49.0

If there's urgent and important, that's great, but then most important and then urgent.

0:54.0

That performance will be critical in the three components of how to be productive.

0:59.0

Productivity is very simple. It's a measurement to me.

1:02.0

I actually am productive 64 hours a day.

1:05.0

And the reason that I'm productive 64 hours a day, I call it the power of 64,

1:09.0

is that I focus in on having twice as many productive hours.

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