5 steps to maximizing your productive sweet spot
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Steps to Maximize Your
Productive Sweet Spot
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Steps to Maximize Your
Productive Sweet Spot
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Are you naturally
a morning
person? Or are
you a night owl who comes alive
at midnight and
works well into
the evening?
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While there are
many benefits to
rising early, the
real key is to find
when you are the
most productive and use that time
to the fullest.
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Here are 5 steps for getting started:
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Identify your ideal work environment.
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Some people work
well in a noisy
coffee shop with a
lot of noise
around. Others
prefer a quiet, or
perhaps even
silent, atmosphere.
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Spend as much
time as possible
in your ideal work
environment
during your most
productive time of day.
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Embrace the“80/20 Rule.”
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You need to focus
on the most
important tasks during your peak
times. The bulk of
your success
comes from only a
handful of the
tasks you do.
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One of the best
ways to do this is to
follow the 80/20
principle: You get
80 percent of your
results from 20
percent of your
efforts.
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Delegate, eliminate & learn to say “no.”
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Hiring help can
free you up to
focus on “sweet
spot” activities—
the tasks that
energize you and
that no one else
can do quite like
you.
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There may be
some tasks you
can’t delegate.
Determine whether
or not that task
really needs to be
done. If not, then
eliminate it.
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Say no when a
request is made or
an “opportunity” is
presented to you
that doesn’t fit with
what you know is
best for you.
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Focus onone thing.
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Determine the
“one thing” that is
your most
important business-
related activity.
This should be the
primary focus of your workday.
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The One Thing by
Gary Keller and Jay
Papasan is based
on the premise that
your best results
come from a
consistent effort on a single activity.
Click book cover image to learn
more about the book!
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Take back yourwork time.
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If you’re still
working a day
job, your boss might define
your priority
tasks for you.
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Try to approach
your boss with a
detailed plan regarding your
most important tasks.
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If you explain how
spending time on
these tasks can
actually improve the
company’s bottom
line, you may be
given a little more
freedom to set your
own priorities.
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Let’s get started!
Here is a simple action
plan for maximizing your
productive “sweet spot.”
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Action PlanIdentify your periods of
peak productivity. 1
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Action PlanIdentify your periods of
peak productivity.
Spend a week writing down the
times of day when you feel most
energized and productive.
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Action PlanIdentify your
“one thing.” 2
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Action PlanIdentify your
“one thing.”
Examine your business closely to
determine the #1 activity that
produces the biggest results.
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Action PlanCreate a schedule
around that one thing. 3
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Action PlanCreate a schedule
around that one thing.
Focus on completing the most important
thing during your ideal work time, when
you’re at a peak level of energy.
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Action PlanStart the day with an
important question. 4
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Action PlanStart the day with an
important question.
Ask yourself, “What’s the one thing
I need to do today to consider this
day to be a success?”
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