Moment 55 - This Method Will Boost Your Productivity: Ali Abdaal

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

This week I’m bringing back an episode from August last year with Ali Abdaal; a doctor, business entrepreneur, public speaker and all-round expert. It is important to resurface these ideas about productivity so that we can get the most out of our lives. This was an incredibly engaging conversation, as he tells me how he manages to squeeze every moment from his day.

Ali mentions here that in order to do our tasks in the most efficient way, we should shift our mindset to think they are fun. This means that we become intrinsically motivated to complete them. One way in which we can do this is change ‘I have to…’ to ‘I get to…’. Shifting our mind to think that something is fun, will make us feel so much better about ourselves once the task is done.

I also mentioned that when I have my own time to choose when I can be productive, I create time sensitive and task specific blocks in my mind. This helps to create a tick box mentality, and one which I can intertwine with what Ali says here.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/5r583D34Apb

Ali - https://twitter.com/AliAbdaal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/aliabdaal/?hl=en

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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0:00.0	You know, people talk about how they'll put on their to-do list, clean house, and it'll
0:06.6	sit on a to-do list.
0:08.4	And clean house, that's a big thing.
0:10.2	That's something.
0:11.2	And that'll sit on your to-do list for like, I don't know, two weeks or whatever.
0:13.9	But if you do, if you time block and write in your, this is what I do on the weekends,
0:17.3	because so Monday to Friday, my schedule is ran by the meetings and things I have to
0:21.4	do.
0:22.4	So I'm a slave to the calendar.
0:24.8	And that in Sunday come around, I wake up, I'm like, okay, I'm like, what the fuck,
0:32.0	how does this thing work?
0:33.0	It's like, yeah, I'm like, it's empty.
0:35.0	I've got loads of things I know I could be doing right now, but nothing, no one telling
0:38.2	me what to do in a life of mine where I'm told what to do every five minutes.
0:44.7	So I time block on the weekends, which means clean house would become 11 till 12.
0:49.3	I clean the kitchen.
0:51.0	Because then it's like time sensitive and like task specific.
0:56.0	And that's been an absolute game changer for me.
0:59.8	And I also think in the ear of working from home, where people are sat at home, they
1:04.7	have tasks they have to-
1:06.3	Oh, it's like-
1:07.3	It's almost like we prep for this, because this is literally the three-pot structure of
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