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Increase Your Value

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Activity and productivity are often interchangeable, but they are two different things. Understanding the difference between the two can help you be more effective and efficient in your personal and professional life.

Activity refers to the things you do or the tasks you complete. It can be anything from responding to emails, attending meetings, exercising, or even taking breaks. Essentially, activity is any action you take.

Productivity, however, refers to the results you achieve from your activities. It measures how effectively you use your time and resources to accomplish your goals.

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So, while activity is essential, it is only meaningful if it leads to productivity. So, for example, if you spend hours responding to emails but don’t get any meaningful work done, then you are engaging in activity but not necessarily being productive.

Increasing productivity, it is essential to focus on the most critical tasks that will impact your goals the most. As a result, you may have to say no to specific activities or delegate tasks to others. It also involves being mindful of how you use your time and being efficient in your approach to assignments.

One way to improve productivity is to use time management techniques such as prioritizing tasks, setting deadlines, and breaking larger tasks into smaller, more manageable ones. It is also helpful to eliminate distractions and minimize multitasking, as this can help you stay focused and avoid wasting time on unnecessary activities.

In summary, while activity is any action you take, productivity measures the results you achieve from those actions. So you can increase productivity, it is essential to focus on the most important tasks and eliminate distractions while also being mindful of how you use your time. By understanding the difference between activity and productivity, you can be more effective and efficient in your personal and professional life.

Get Organized

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Effective time management is a crucial aspect of living an organized and productive life. When you prioritize your tasks and activities, you can make the most of your time and accomplish your goals more efficiently. Here are some tips for prioritizing your day and staying organized:

  1. Create a schedule or to-do list: One of the most effective ways to stay organized is to have a clear plan for your day. This can take the form of a schedule, which outlines the specific tasks and activities you need to complete at specific times, or a to-do list, which is a list of tasks and activities you need to complete in no particular order. Both of these tools can help you keep track of what you need to do and ensure that you are focusing on the most critical tasks first.
  2. Identify your priorities: Not all tasks and activities are created equal, and it’s crucial to prioritize the ones most important or urgent. To do this, you can use the “urgency and importance matrix,” which divides your tasks into four quadrants based on their level of urgency and importance. Tasks that are both urgent and important should be your top priority, followed by tasks that are important but not urgent, tasks that are urgent but not important, and finally, tasks that are neither urgent nor important.
  3. Set clear goals: Having a clear understanding of your long-term goals can help you stay focused and motivated and help you prioritize your tasks and activities. When you set specific, achievable goals, you can break them down into smaller tasks and activities that are easier to manage and tackle one at a time.
  4. Avoid distractions: Distractions can derail your productivity and make it harder to stay organized. To minimize distractions, you can try turning off your phone or other electronic devices when you need to focus, finding a quiet workplace, or setting boundaries with coworkers or family members.
  5. Take breaks: While it’s important to focus on your tasks and activities, recharge is also essential. Taking regular breaks can help you stay energized and focused, and it can also help you avoid burnout.
  6. Stay flexible: Even the best-laid plans can go awry, and it’s essential to be flexible and adaptable when things aren’t as expected. When facing unexpected challenges or setbacks, stay positive and focus on finding a solution.

By following these tips, you can prioritize your day and stay organized. Remember, effective time management is a skill that takes practice and dedication, but it’s worth it in the long run.

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Being Your Best, How to Get Started NOW

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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better, and your better is best.”–St Jerome

Say that five times really fast! Ha Ha!

When I found this quote, it really hit me. In our journies, we strive to be our best. Those with passion seem to never rest in the pursuit.

What we learn along the way is forward momentum keeps our vision in sight of our goal. Whether you take a baby step today and a giant step tomorrow, it doesn’t really matter as long as the motion is forward.

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Learning to organize your day into bite-size chunks will help. Get a calendar that you like to work with. Organize activities that you can begin and finish within an allotted period. This keeps you from getting to scattered. Activity vs. Productivity. We want production!

Map out a day from hour-to-hour. Don’t wing this get organized. If you do, success is coming. Being busy is just being active. Have clear and actionable tasks, complete the work before moving on. This is the difference between winning and the status quo.

Start today, now if possible. Procrastination is what other people do!

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How to Build an Empire with Goals

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A new year begging and the flag has dropped the race has begun to achieve our resolutions and goals. Goals are all well and good. The biggest problem is either you don’t get started, or you just give out.

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If you want to build an empire, you need to get started. My philosophy is an Empire is what you believe an empire to be. Whether that’s to lose 50lbs. In weight this year, or make a million dollars. My thinking any win is part of your empire!

You can read thousands of books on goal setting. Everyone has an opinion about what you need to write out correctly. Here is my take on that.

Writing out the most detailed plan won’t accomplish anything without action. Where people fail is they don’t take consistent action. No work, no achievement!

Here are a few points that will help you stay on top of your goals:

  • Set an actionable task daily with reminders. I use my Smartphone to ring out reminders of what I need to do next.
  • Finish your daily tasks. Don’t set up too many things to achieve in a day. Finish what you begin before you move on to the next job.
  • Don’t overwhelm yourself. Be sure that what you set out to do daily is manageable. When you overcome yourself, you will eventually quit.
  • Take time to set up your calendars, to-do list, so that you don’t forget. Set up at least three months of actionable tasks. If you try and do this on short spurts, you’re just setting up to fail.

You can write down all the goals in the world. If you don’t put serious action behind that, you wasted your time. Achieving goals requires work. Take action every day, the only way is to track yourself daily. Complete daily tasks and you will see your dreams come true.

If you want to achieve start right now! Get this garbage out of your head “will start tomorrow,” NO begin right now!!!

Good luck in your New Year, I believe this will be your best year!

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Why the Next 10 Years of Motivations Will Smash the Last 10

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“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”–Bradley Whitford

Are you ready to smash the next 10 years? 

The last ten years of motivations that you have employed in your life. Has set a foundation for you to smash the next ten years.

Why?

Think about what you’ve learned from your experiences. What in hindsight would you have done a bit different? This gives you the edge you need to have a breakaway new decade.

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After a decade, you now possess the knowledge to plot the course for a new decade. More important than anything else what bit of experience can you deploy right now? Take some action today!

Upon reflection of your past ten years, take the independent powerhouse thoughts, information, feelings, and put those in your repertoire to draw wisdom at will. Now think about what new information you can put into action to boost the old knowledge. What tweaks can you make?

Set a plan. A daily actionable plan. Some examples:

  1. Use a task management tool. I use Google Tasks.
  2. Calander times to work on you, goals, free time. Literally set up times and dates for your life (I’m not suggesting to not be spontaneous). Organize!
  3. Set time limits to achieve certain things. Don’t wake up a year from now and go, “wow, I got nothing completed.” Never confuse activity with productivity!!!
  4. Meditate on the end result. See yourself in your mind’s eye with what you desire to achieve as already yours.
  5. Stay in faith and stay in gratitude always!

When trials and tribulations come and they will. Hold onto #5 with everything that is you. Don’t give in or give up. The tests will pass much quicker if you remain calm and focused. Breathe daily and meditate.

Take some action today, get started. Don’t think, begin!

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