personal productivity 1
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Why are you on earth if not to be productive?
When an individual stops being productive, he loses his relevance and
power of existence
Personal productivity is a prove of healthy self-awareness and
self-management
Self management is all about perspective (focus on the right
things) and control (the ability to effectively manage all the things
coming at you)
Aligning with the times as individuals for sustainable
competitive advantage – This is age of skill, result, performance, and productivity!
Luck never made a productive person. Prosperity and growth come only to individuals that
systematically find and exploit their potentials
Personal productivity is completing the actions that
move you closer to accomplishing your goals in a
manner that brings balance and ease into your life
It’s all about completing an action cycle. Knowing what your objectives are and the actions necessary to reach
them
The different phases of this action cycle are:
Setting meaningful and measurable objectives; Evaluating the objective into actionable items; Completing
the individual actionable items; Reviewing and acknowledging your
progress;
The productivity cycle allows you to maintain your sights on
the bigger picture while continuing forward through the
completion of small tactical tasks that lead towards your
goals
The key to accomplishing your tasks and reaching your goals is to schedule them and measure
them
Measure your performance per time. Measurement is the
motivator for improvement -James A. Belasco
Our personal life is measured by result and
productivity
It is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are you busy about?
Your productivity is an extension of your
personality. It is one of the ways in which a person
defines himself, measures his worth and his humanity
Is performance in life a function of one’s salary?
Performance is not a function of salary; what life offers us
is a function of our performance
Productivity is a habit. You can disrupt your negative behaviours, and reinforce them with productive ones
Our degree of effectiveness in life or at work is a sort of
conditioning and over time, it puts us in a State of Flow!
Flow, is a state of inner experience in which there is order in consciousness , and
it takes time to get into a Flow state
What is your true worth in dollars if offered for sale
going by your level of productivity?
Remember, C. Ronaldo was sold that much because of his level of productivity?
I don’t think there’s anything worse than being ordinary –
Anon
7 Ps of Personal Productivity
Passion (love for what you do)
Energy flows in the direction of our obsessed interests and dominant
thoughts
Picture (have a blueprint for what you want to
accomplish with strong purpose)
All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental picture.
Do a mind mapping
Posture (possess resolute personal power i.e.
physical and psychological disposition)
Private philosophy and definition of productivity determine public
performance
Process (priority, planning, preparation)
We must engage in the eternal circle of productivity - doing, learning and
changing
Pursuit/ Pivot (point of balance for result)
Match with a sense of personal vision and mission in life
Product (the result and also the turning point for
more productivity)
A change in behaviour leads to a change in action and results
Time management is the central skill for personal
productivity
Ever productive activity takes place at a central stage called time
Time Wasters Vs Time Log
Keep a time log where you write down when you start an activity and when you stop it. At the end of the week, you create a tally so you can
know exactly where your time is going
When you feel your productivity is lower than
you'd like, raise your awareness via time logging
Identify your Time Wasters
Time is wasted in the same way everyday, and chiefly by laziness and
procrastination
Procrastination is a habit. People aren't born
procrastinators or hard workers, it's something you
learn
Creating a personal productivity system and
structure for performance
It is hard to stay on track without rails
Positive attitude enhances personal productivity and
discipline keys you on track
Discipline is the key to mastery of anything - Anon
Self-reinvention for greater performance is not possible
without attitude
Attitude is the bridge between where we are and where we want to be
Productive individuals believe in themselves, in their skills and
abilities, in their industry and in what they can do with their life
Stop counting your time in life and start making every
time count
Your personal productivity boosts your personality and image – It is not how you look
but how you are good!
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of
being relevant in the present age
Personal productivity does not come into being without a
conscious effort
Productivity and personal growth always involves
learning new skills
Learning more and faster is the only true competitive advantage - Ralph C. Stayer
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records, to outstrip
our yesterday by our today - Steart B. Johnson
Do what you do best and give
away the rest to someone else. If others can do it, let them
Don’t settle, keep reaching for greater performance. Winning is not final; there is
still a game tomorrow
To be effective you must get
out of you comfort zone!
Remember, the most
productive amongst us have it all!
If you can be better, good is not
enough
Welcome to a new world of personal productivity!