YAPSnacks: The 5 Pillars of Productivity

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

YAP Media Network | Hala Taha

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to get everything off your agenda? Does it seem as if it is piling up? If you thought ‘yes’, you’re not alone! In today’s culture, a lot of us feel the need to always be productive. Constantly needing to check things off our mile-long to-do list gives us a sense of control and accomplishment. But this mindset surrounding productivity can quickly turn into a slippery slope leading to stress and burnout. On today’s YAP Snacks, we’re revisiting all of the best tips about helpful productivity! We have experts like John Lee Dumas, Laura Vanderkam, Steven Kotler, and more to tell us their best action items for better productivity. If you want to learn how to create better to-do lists, change your mindset surrounding time management, and just cultivate less stress in your day to day productivity, this is the perfect YAP snack for you! Sponsored by - Athletic Greens - Visit athleticgreens.com/YAP and get FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Brand Crowd - Check out brandcrowd.com/yap to learn more, play with the tool for free, and get 73% off your purchase. Issuu - Sign up for a premium account and get 50% off! Go to ISSUU.com/podcast and use promo code YAP Social Media: Follow YAP on IG: www.instagram.com/youngandprofiting Reach out to Hala directly at Hala@YoungandProfiting.com Follow Hala on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Follow Hala on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yapwithhala Follow Hala on Clubhouse: @halataha Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.youngandprofiting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to YAPSNACs, a series of bite-sized content hosted by me,
0:08.0	Halataha.
0:09.0	Do you feel like you can't get things done in your day-to-day life?
0:12.6	Are you unable to focus for long stints of time while working?
0:16.6	Does focus easily slip away from you?
0:19.4	If you thought yes to any of these questions, you are not alone.
0:23.8	Productivity can feel like a slippery slope, where you go from feeling accomplished and
0:27.7	ahead one minute to procrastinating, being distracted and overwhelmed the next.
0:32.8	The 8-hour workday has been the norm for more than a century, but employee surveys suggest
0:37.8	that most people are truly productive for only about 3-4 hours a day.
0:42.7	And what are people doing for the other 5 hours of their workday?
0:46.2	Well they're checking social media, they're reading news websites, taking breaks and even
0:50.2	looking for new jobs.
0:51.9	Imagine how much we could do and achieve if we were just able to stay focused and be productive
0:57.1	for 8 hours a day, or how ever many productive hours we choose to work in a day.
1:02.2	And what if we ran closer to 100% efficiency rather than just 40 or 50%.
1:07.9	And productivity doesn't just relate to your working life, but also your personal life
1:11.9	as well.
1:13.2	Maybe you keep putting off tasks that need to get checked out the to-do list because
1:16.6	they just seem too difficult.
1:18.8	Or you can't seem to get your priorities in order.
1:21.2	Or maybe you just haven't had the time to take that rain-check date with your loved one.
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