The Productivity Lie That is Stealing Your Life
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Darren Hardy LLC
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Busy ≠ Productive. Darren Hardy breaks down the ruthless strategy top performers use to create massive success. If you're feeling overwhelmed despite "doing it all," you need to hear this perspective and unlock the results you've been chasing!
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| 0:00.0 | chasing endless notifications, squeezing meetings into every gap, every day while you're |
| 0:04.1 | color-coding your perfect schedule, planning your time down to the second, filling every minute |
| 0:08.3 | of your day. You might actually be killing your effectiveness, optimizing your failure, |
| 0:13.2 | sabotaging your success. Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource |
| 0:19.8 | to help you become better every day. |
| 0:22.5 | Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. |
| 0:29.3 | Let me ask you something. How many tabs do you have open on your computer right now? |
| 0:33.6 | How many items are on your to-do list? How many half-finished projects are on your desk or on your plate? |
| 0:39.6 | And how's that working out for you? Here's what's terrifying. The more productive people try to be, the more overwhelmed they feel. And the less they actually accomplish. Wait, what? Yeah, I'm about to flip everything that you believe about getting things done. |
| 0:54.6 | Completely upside down. Let me share a personal experience on this. I was having dinner with one of |
| 1:00.4 | the world's most successful CEOs, someone who runs a Fortune 50 company with over 100,000 |
| 1:04.9 | employees operating in over 50 countries, with constant shareholder, PR, and legal demands on his plate. Nobody said. He said, |
| 1:13.9 | I only do three things each day. Three? I almost choked on my stake with 100,000 employees. Only |
| 1:22.0 | three things? He smiled and continued. See, most people think that I must be incredibly busy, |
| 1:26.8 | super efficient, always hustling. |
| 1:28.4 | But that's not it at all. The truth is, I'm incredibly selective, ruthlessly selective, he added. |
| 1:35.0 | He continued, you see, while others are doing 50 things poorly, I do three things with absolute excellence. |
| 1:41.3 | Research backs this up as well. Harvard research recently revealed something shocking. |
| 1:45.5 | The most successful people aren't the most productive. They're the most selected. Think about that. |
| 1:51.7 | Today, while you're drowning in back-to-back meetings, juggling multiple project deadlines, |
| 1:56.2 | racing to clear your inbox, right now, while you're bouncing between urgent tasks, |
| 2:00.5 | chasing endless notifications, squeezing meetings into every gap, every day while you're bouncing between urgent tasks, chasing endless |
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