How To Be Super Productive Personal Use Ebook

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You will always learn more from experience than you would do from hearing about someone else's experience. That's the key here. Studying is comfortable. It's somewhat rewarding too - and most often we associate these two with "results" which they most certainly are not.

You can read all the books. You can mirror others achievements, but you will never fully understand how something really works unless you contrast your successes against your failures. Read that again.

Mastering productivity will not only increase your success substantially, it will also seep into other aspects of your life as you become the person who just gets it done...period. In order to master such a skill you must begin to place specific deadlines on the most important things you do.

It's one thing to take immediate action when you stumble across something you can use -but that's only half the battle. There are always times when we have a couple of important tasks that need to get done So, we need to assign specific time-frames to important tasks.
We achieve maximum productivity when we assign deadlines to tasks using...

Parkinson's Law:

When I first heard of this law I kinda passed over it at first. I mean, time management and productivity aren't the sexiest of things to learn, but by good God they are essential. After a year or so online without seeing any substantial results from my 12 - 15 hours a day being busy online - I finally woke up to the fact I had a serious problem that needed immediate attention.

It was clear that I wasn't being productive with my time. I now work less time and get twice as much done...at least.

This law states that the task at hand expands to fill the allotted time given to that certain task...

... and if you haven't allotted a specific amount of time for completion of that task... you're screwed I Since time is indefinite, it takes forever to do stuff, which essentially means you end up with a million things needed to get done but you feel like there's not enough time to finish them as they continue to pile up...

... quite a paradox.

Touch It Once:

The only way to get crystal clear about your intentions is to put a specific deadline on whatever you do - and once you touch a project, you finish the damn thing come hell or high water.

The old "touch it once" concept is about "completing a task in one sitting," but that's just not good enough in my opinion. Unless you specify a deadline, you could easily "touch it once" at 1pm and finish it at 4pm - when it could have been completed by 230pm. Total waste of time.

For example...

If you're writing a blog post for your...well...blog, you set up a timer to complete that post in 1 hour. No more - no less... 1 hour tops. It sounds simple, and it is, but what this does is forces your brain to work a lot more efficiently. If you only have 1 hour, guess what? It will take you 1 hour. If you have 2 hours, guess what? Exactly - it will take 2 hours. You've essentially halved your productiveness when it should have been doubled.

Very Important:

You have to make a commitment to use Parkinson's Law with everything important you do online. If, for example, you want to change the theme on your website, you must set a specific deadline for its completion - and after that allotted time is up, you leave it exactly the way it is. It's so easy to get caught up doing menial tasks which should be secondary to the tasks that actually produce results.

Your time is valuable and cannot be wasted by pissing about trying to get things perfect...

"It doesn't need to be perfect - it needs to be done"

If you allot 2 hours for completion of a certain task, be strict enough to tick that task off as DONE once that time-frame has ended. You cannot go over the time allotted.

It would completely defeat the whole purpose of what you're training your mind to do if you allotted 2 hours to finish a task, but ended up taking 3 hours to complete it. Remember, your time is valuable.

One More Example:

If I want to write a new report to give away on an opt in page. I'd prob'ly allot 10 minutes to pick a topic, 20 minutes to outline the structure of the report, and 11/2 hours to write it....

...absolutely no compromising on the times I have allotted to each task. When the bell rings, I move onto the next one. That's it. Done. There needs to be a sense of urgency to whatever important task you're working on. You MUST set deadlines - it's as simple and straight forward as that.

If there's no deadline attached - you're wasting time, and cheating yourself.

If you follow the "study to action" principle I outlined earlier - you'll find that after a short while your content will be everywhere online. That's a great thing. The more you have out there, the more chances you have of connecting with people and making sales.

And...

The more content you have online - obviously you're going to have more stuff to do, right? This is where the power of Parkinson's Law comes into play. Both productivity tips outlined here today complement each other seamlessly. If you master both - you'll meet with inevitable success.

What To Do Now:

Chances are you'll need to sit down and create a plan, especially for the Parkinson's Law method. Nothing too rigid though - the goal here is to work to "uninterrupted" deadlines. That means, if you start something and you have a 2 hour deadline to finish, you MUST focus on that task for the full 2 hours. No email, no social media, no bathroom.

Let's take a look at one of my daily schedules - maybe you'll get something of value from it. This schedule is set up for the Parkinson's Law method, so every action that's taken inside the schedule is 100% uninterrupted time.

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