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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Good morning, my friends.

So yesterday, we discussed the number one skill that you need to go from overworker to super achiever. So for step number seven,

I want to share with you a couple of my personal productivity tricks for creating insane laser-like

focus and conquering procrastination and doubling my productivity. In a bygone era, which actually

isn't that long ago, you can only be reached by the phone, mail,

or in-person visit, knock at the door. If you had a task to complete, you could shut your door,

have your car calls held, but today we have dozens of communication access points directly to

us, devices that are constantly interrupting our attention from productive tasks like emails, texts, IMs, RSS feeds,

blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. You have to take control and stay in control of your

attention and focused. So I learned these three techniques that help me stay focused and produce

much more in less time. Let me give them to you. Number one, group.

Take smaller tasks that you usually do all throughout the day at different times and do them all as one

group. If I have to, let's say, review articles, I save them until there's a group and then I do them

all at one time. If I have to do some interview prep work or writing projects, I will batch them all and do them all at one time.

If I have to line up of an appointment out of the office, I try to schedule all of my outside appointments for that day and then move through them quickly.

Grouping similar tasks is also why you should only check your email twice a day.

Let it stack up and then

you can power through them more quickly rather than allowing it to distract you in and out

throughout the entire day. Number two is to chunk. Now you want to carve out chunks of your time

to handle your group tasks. For instance, I block out my time on my schedule to process email

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