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Ray Corcoran, Business Growth Advisor, @raycorcoran4

Productivity:How to get more done in 3 months than most do in 12

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Ray Corcoran

Business Growth Advisor

@raycorcoran4 raycorcoran.com.au

Today’s speaker

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Each row is one decade

A 90-Year Human Life in Years

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Fast implementation of the right tasks.

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Audit – Review your current performance

Mindset – Principles to being productive

Clear your plate – Using the 4D’s

Identify your ‘needle movers’ – What to focus on

Daily productivity tips – Maximise your days

Agenda

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Audit: Review your current performance

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• Health / fitness

• Family

• Friends

• Business

• Personal finances

• Fun

• Spirituality

Activity: How much attention do you give the following?

(Out of 10)

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Mindset: Principles to being productive

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1. Micro discipline vs Macro disciplineImage credit: darrenhardy.com

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2. Have a sense of urgency

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3. The goal is sustainable and balanced performance

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4. It’s all time

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5. Systems beat willpower

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6. Personal things in first

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7. If you don’t set the rules, others will make them up for you

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Clear your plate: Using the 4D’s

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The 4D’s

1. Delete

2. Delegate

3. Defer

4. Do

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Delete – What do you need to STOP doing?

• Speaking to unqualified leads

• Scrolling pointlessly on social media

• Unnecessary meetings

• Meetings that could have been emails

• Driving to meetings instead of phone calls

• Wasting time with D-grade clients

• Managing D-grade staff

• Friends that drain you

Examples:

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Delegate – What could other people do for you?

• Bookkeeping

• Payroll

• Automate / schedule posting on social media

• Triaging leads

• Getting lunch

• Groceries / personal admin

• Driving (Uber etc)

• Any other low level tasks

Examples:

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Defer – What could be done later?

• Minor tweaks your website

• Updating your branding

• Low quality networking events

• Coffee catchups with no real agenda

• ‘Perfecting’ things unnecessarily

• Optimising low traffic web pages

• ‘Later List’

Examples:

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Do – What should you do more of?

• Setting up partnerships

• Calling past clients

• Selling more to current clients

• Doing Facebook live videos

• Speaking

• Team training

• Good networking events

• Emailing your database

• Posting on QinkedIn

• Following up old leads

Examples:

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Delete

DoDefer

Delegate

Identify your ‘needle movers’: What to focus on

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What are your 2 - 3 ‘needle movers’?

• Setting up partnerships

• Calling past clients (ie. for referrals)

• Selling more to current clients

• Doing Facebook live videos

• Speaking

• Team training

• Good networking events

• Emailing your database

• Posting on LinkedIn

• Following up old leads

Examples:

Daily productivity: Maximise your days

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Daily productivity

• TTP morning plan (task, time, priority)

• Stacking tasks

• Keep white space

• Building blocks – Sleep / nutrition / exercise

Your next steps:Create a simple action plan

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What’s the #1 change you need to make?

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Share: What’s your next step?

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Ray Corcoran

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