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Posts published in May 2015

8 ways to Infinite Productivity – How to get it all done Part 1

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8 ways to Infinite Productivity – How to Put in Less Hours and Get More  Done … Part 1With the pace that technology is advancing, you would think that our daily productivity would improve. Alas, at least for me, that has NOT been the case. While my gadgets are getting more powerful and more ‘cool’, I seem to be taking more and more time to get even some simple tasks done. While some tasks may have taken me an hour to do when I was ‘younger’, now it is taking me twice as long. Some might blame it on ‘age’. Being old is often a good excuse, and any women over 40 can use this excuse, as am I. But I am troubled by my own output rate, and I am determined to find out why. I don’t really believe that Age has anything to do with it, since I am able to defy the ‘age myth’ on health: I am much more healthy and active then when I was 20 years old. That is 25 years ago. Nowadays, I am healthy, my heart rate is down, lung capacity up, allergies gone, and I have no trouble sleeping nowadays. So I set up to learn from ‘Productivity’ experts, the likes of Darren Hardy, Brendon Burchard, amongst others. And I put their teachings into test myself. After a long, hard, 2 year journey, I came up with a list of 8 things that I find is the most important elements to Infinite Productivity. But before I explain what these 8 things are, let me ask you this: Why do you want to be Productive?WHAT does Productivity mean to YOU? How would ‘being productive’ change your life?The definition of ‘Productivity’, according to Dictionary.com (yes I googled it), is The Quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services. The rate at which goods and services having exchange value are brought forth or produced, Or, according to Merriam-Webster, Productivity is simply the rate at which goods are produced or work is completed. Noticed they defined the word as ‘Completed’ – Starting everything and finishing nothing is definitely not productive. I once heard someone told me that ‘Done Trumps Perfection’ – Too often we tend to chase Perfection, even though we know it does not exist. It is much more effective, and ‘productive’, to get things done, and then later on make improvements on it as we gain the skills, knowledge and feedback on how to make it better, whatever ‘IT’ may be.WHY do you want to be productive?Granted, not everybody wants to be productive, at least not in the workplace. Stereotypical union workers (I am just using this as an example, don’t get offended) are often seen to be unproductive, and the reason behind is often because they are being paid by the hour, and they are not being ‘Rewarded’ by their productivity. They are simply rewarded for giving up their life (hours) at work.…