Day 2: Be productive, right now.
Here we are on Productivity Action Day 2. Did you take action yesterday?
Yesterday you were determining the amount of time you have to work.
If you haven’t read Productivity Action Day 1 yet, click here.
Before you move to today’s action, it’s important for you to determine the amount of time you have to work. And please do not say “I work 9-5” because in truth, you don’t.
You may be at work 9-5 but you aren’t working a solid eight hours without a trip to the bathroom, lunch, social media excursion and so on.
When you have determined the time you are actually working, it’s time to move on.
Your Mission Possible for Productivity Action Day 2, if you so choose to accept it is:
Take inventory.
Inventory, that is, of everything you do in your business.
I did say everything.
Things like your planning time (hopefully that is on your list to do), administrative, networking, marketing, sales, meetings, phone calls, emails, text messages, social media, content creation, leadership activities, managing team (if you have a team) and everything you do during your day.
Your business is specific to you so while you may do similar things that other business owners do, just list out what you are doing in your business.
This gives you a big picture view of what you do during your working time.
I believe in the power of writing. My suggestion to you is to use pen and paper for this initial activity.
There is a connection that occurs in your brain when you write rather than type. I know, I type way faster than I write too, yet that’s the point. You don’t want to just fly over these, you want to connect with what you are doing in order for you to become better at being productive.
As you are in the writing process, what more than likely will happen is, you’ll think “do I need to do that?” or “I hate doing this.” Make a note of it, you’ll use that valuable information later.
That’s all for today. Put your list aside (your brain will begin percolating on it in the background). This is good, let that happen.
Until tomorrow…
Additional References for you.
Article: The Power of Writing Things Down.
Article: 7 Reasons Why You Should Write Things Down.
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