Productivity presentation

Productivity
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1. How do I have a successful life?

2. Most things in life are normally distributed

3. Success is abnormally distributed

4. Skill Effort The race to get to 10,000 hours Skill Reward Labour Top 1% of the population

5. Knowledge compounds ‘that's how knowledge builds up, like compound interest…..always go to bed wiser than you woke up’ – Warren Buffett

6. $1,000,000 in five minutes

7. PROCESSING Learn how to make better decisions & judgment Improve your productivity Learn how to use tools to scale your information storage, retrieval and processing of information

8. Points: Put a high price on your time. It’s not free If you don’t put a price on it false economies will trickle in The biggest gains can come from the smallest units of productivity

9. Tactics for high productivity

10. The five commandments of productivity: Delete Automate Delegate Defer Do

11. ‘ People dependent systems fail. Systems dependent people succeed’.

12. 1. What is more important than how…. ‘ there is nothing so futile as doing something with great efficiency that shouldn’t be done at all’.

13. ‘ Businesses are built for either P or E. Over time P compounds, E diminishes ’ – Mark Carnegie

14. 2. Play calendar dodge ball ‘Meetings are futile. But if you want to accomplish nothing in life they are indispensable’ - John Kenneth Galbraith Hint: Meetings are for informing and deciding. Ask ‘which do you need me for’.

15. 3. Time isn’t elastic. You only get to spend it once….you have to choose which fires to leave burning.

16. ‘Context switching’ is poison to productivity

17. What’s the only thing that gives time it’s value? Hint: Ruthlessly exclude distractions: - Use noise cancelling headphones Eliminate all alerts Unsubscribe (or saneblackhole ) Shut email down

18. Leverage the ‘dead space’

19. Use the ‘second brain’

20. Tools everyone should use: Wunderlist Grammarly Sanelater Good calendar tool (Calendly) MixMax Collaboration tools (e.g. Googledocs ) Keyboard shortcuts

21. Do a quarterly ‘defrag’

22. View your world through activities that ‘give you energy’ and activities that ‘take your energy’. You need to be 10x compensated for those tasks, people or places that drain your energy.

23. Throw out your printer…and buy two screens

24. Don’t watch the news

25. Magnify value through communication Focus your output on scalable activities Achieve outcomes through leading exceptional talent HIGH OUTPUT MAXIMISE THE QUANTITY AND IMPACT OF OUTPUTS