Why Your To-Do List Is Killing Productivity (Fix It Now)

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1:00How many of you like I'm not so clear be honest how many so what's in the between because I'm going to put your hand what's in between some of you like kind of clear I'm not so clear. Okay, let me show how many are crystal clear crystal clear. Okay. Okay. How many are not so clear need some work on that okay good good So write this down business a team sport business is what team sport this is not One man show one woman show businesses a team sport Because business is competitive. What is it? It's competitive. You want as modest people. You want as strong as people on your team There's a great saying if you're the smartest person your team your business in trouble and it's very very true

2:01If you're the smartest person on your team your business in trouble. I know that's a limitation Because probably what it tells me is you're not comfortable hiring people that's smarter than you Now what does that come from tell me y'all the answer? What is it? Insecurity. Yes. Hell yeah high five man. That's awesome insecurity is actually a sign of low self-esteem Because you're not comfortable surrounding yourself This self-esteem is not high enough to surround yourself with people smarter because you always want to be the smartest You always want to have the right answer. You always want to be the one that they they come to for advice Instead of developing leaders and finding leaders around you and say you know what you guys do you think My god my god, which is I'm the guy who has division and I don't have all the answers But I'm very compelling. I know that's division. I want to accomplish any help that I can get I'm open to receive does that make sense? Yes, okay So many years ago I used to have a to how many of you have a to do list that you have okay? How many you don't have to do a list

3:04Then what the fuck do you have Seriously, what do you have nothing? Okay, that's interesting We got to do a class on productivity or something like that. Okay many years ago. I've got to do list I have a what and it's long because I'm this control freak and I'm perfectionist My my to do list at a time was probably five seven pages work document and kind of items and it would feel good and I would Have a to do thing and then cross it out cross it out. How many of you feel good when you crossing your items from to do list? Okay, and that's what I have Now let's make it decent money by six figure a year But also that's the problem then I evolved then I learned that I don't just want to have my to do list I want to have and other people's to do list What is it other people's to do list so I would have another people's to do this and start that developing that and Death thing gets thicker and thicker and thicker and thicker and actually my to do list gets shorter and shorter and shorter

4:06shorter So every day now the way operator is if you actually if I invite you to my office. I work from home and You see on my on my wall. I would have What I call the the big five? Every day I'm five big things. I'm gonna accomplish every day big stuff Every day, and I will usually in the morning. I'm okay today. I got to call this partner Or I got to set up this or I got to come up out of the strategy for that company or whatever it might be I got to review so five things very simple not a ton of stuff and every day I want to make sure I don't get off work until I finish these five things Now what's interesting and sometimes it would take me hours to do these You'll take me a good day to do it. Sometimes it only takes me an hour to finish the whole thing Now if let me ask you a question if I've got five things on my list the big five in the morning And I finish it. I cross it. Let's say I get it. I get I guess I got it done by 12 noon noon time

5:09What do I do for the rest of the day Celebrate good. Yes, everybody celebrate Yeah, but what else do I do? Plan for tomorrow to do this which takes about five minutes or so. Well seriously. What what else do I do? Read maybe learn. Yes Not but not the right answer yet. What what do I do with the rest of the time? Self-developed maybe maybe I don't go by the way. I don't go Help other people but it's too big. It's too big If you were me, what would you do? Have lunch? Relax. All right. Okay, but what would you do? You're done for that day. What would you do? I would I would continue working. Continue. How many of you continue working find more stuff to do? Okay, that's the fucking problem Not the answer Not the answer, but that's a that's a habit right now, right? Not the answer. What else do you what do you do?

6:11Spent time with family. Maybe maybe Sleep. I see a lot of it already. So that's not quite it. He is what it is. I would think Think Most entrepreneurs you're not taking enough time to think because when you're writing like this, can you think? No, you can only when you get off the hams the will then you think Now with me I usually think with a note a pad like this, right? And then a pen. I just sit there and I think And it's almost like I'm if you if you observe it's almost like I'm like daydreaming a little bit But I just think Yes Oh, awesome. So every morning if those of you know, I do my when I get in the morning brush You know shower and then I do my graded to exercise every morning, which in this is my how many of her of that my recording right? Yeah, I do that first 10 15 minutes. I always go that to me meditation doesn't quite work for me

7:13Like sitting there still and just that doesn't quite work for me, but the the Attitude the graded exercise that works for me. So I go through that after I'm done Then I have my breakfast and everything else. That's just what I do. Okay now the meditation doesn't equal thinking though There are two different things. I'm just talking about thinking about your business It's almost let your mind go blank Because how many of you had this experience when you maybe you're showering you're driving or you doing whatever Or you you're walking down on the street and suddenly you come up with a brilliant idea. How many have done that before? Yeah, those ideas don't come when you are like that Those ideas only come when you're totally relaxed and you're not thinking about it and bam suddenly that one thing that one idea Transform your business. Yes That's what I'm talking about taking down the thing I'm thinking about all my companies are going to think through it and I will pace back and forth You actually if you actually observe again in my office I ask Jenny I'm always pacing back and forth and talking to myself

8:15Julie, how many talk to yourself? Yeah, I do that I talk to myself and I draw on the whiteboard and cross on the whiteboard and just thinking about stuff and then I think I do that a lot I take about an hour at least an hour day just thinking A lot of you haven't set down and be still and think about a business for a long time. Can I say so much easier to just be busy It's so much easier. Henry Ford said he best Thinking is the hardest work there is that's why so few people engage in it. It's tough work It feels like you're not doing any work. It's way easier to just go fuck around on Facebook How many spend way too much time on Facebook David you don't count because David managed my social media you don't count you should be on Facebook But how many spend way too much time? Social media stuff like that right? Yeah I spent about 10 minutes a day on Facebook even I think that's bit too much for me Okay, and that's why people sometimes Facebook me and this and then I'm not there. I'm not fucking there Yes

9:18How do you sometimes look at the negative side of you rather than like you mean in your business like you some challenges and stuff like that? Well, it's not I don't I'm not a guy that believes in positive thinking. I don't believe in that if anything I believe in negative thinking Because I know that motivation is good But for most entrepreneurs desperation is even better So sometimes it's kind of nuts to think about this Because I'm so comfortable with my life. I would sometimes purposely and I don't I don't advise this to everybody But I would purposely throw myself in situation where I'm back in the corner I got to make shit happen Make myself uncomfortable. Don't want to be too comfortable So I would challenge myself that way that's just the crazy in me Not busting positive, but with me. I don't focus so much on my stick just again personal I just focus on a solution So when I think about stuff maybe this business is struggling got to turn it around what is not working? Well, what could work come up with five things that we can make it work full of 10 things like I could make it work

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