Day 6: Be productive, right now.
Productivity Action Day 6. Let’s do a quick check in.
Last week your actions were to:
- Determine the time you actually have to work
- Take inventory of the Big Picture
- Do your Time Estimation
- Create the Small Picture
- Establish your RGAs and your NRGA
Each of them could have brought a knowing, a surprise, an annoyance and many other thoughts and feelings.
What I find is that once you have a clearer picture of where you are it’s easier to make the changes you need to make.
On a recent call with my own accountability partner we talked about how there are so many things we are interested in doing but do they tie back into generating revenue?
Truth be told, not everything you do or will do will lead to money but 85-90% of the actions you take should. You are a business. Businesses make money.
Think of it this way, you want to be doing everything you can that somehow leads to money. This week we are going to begin narrowing things down for even greater clarity.
Mission Possible for Productivity Action Day 6, if you so choose to accept it is to:
Calculate Time Precisely
What you want to do is to get super clear, and I mean down to the second on your time.
Take that list you have been creating (make sure you did all of last week’s actions) of your categories, estimates and RGAs (and NRGAs) and beginning today (and all this week) as you take action, note down the time you start and when you complete your task. After you have that, calculate the exact time your task took you.
You now have the true amount of time it takes you, right now, to complete a specific task.
Here is how to do this action:
- Take a sheet of paper and on the left side write out your action.
- Next to the action write down your estimate.
- As you take the action write down the time (or even set a timer).
- When you complete your action note the end time.
- Finally, calculate the exact time it took to complete the task.
This means you need to stay on task and not jump around. Oh I hear you! It’s hard to stay on task. However, multitasking is NOT going to give you the data you need for this.
Knowledge is powerful
Two things usually happen once you complete this action. You feel really good about yourself because you see that your estimations were spot on and maybe you even get things done faster than you thought. Or you feel defeated because you see that your estimations are way off.
This is a good thing. It’s where you can see how you may be squeezing 30 minutes of work into 15. Knowledge is powerful.
It is in this space that you’ll begin to shed the light on what is not working. Coming up, you’ll learn how to make specific-to-you changes so you run on all cylinders effortlessly and get your things done.
I know today’s action may have been challenging. Having this information is where you’ll be able to make your changes and see your improvements. From there you’ll learn how to best “manage” your time and your activities for TOP Productivity!
Additional References for you
Blog: Competence or confidence?
Video: Productivity Action Day 1 video
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