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Achieve Your Goals Podcast #111 - Productivity Hacks: Achieve More With Less Nick: Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast with Hal Elrod. I'm your host Nick Palkowski and you're the listening to the show that is guaranteed to help you take your life to the next level faster than you ever thought possible. In each episode, you will learn from someone who has achieved extraordinary goals that most haven't. He's the author of the number 1, best-selling book, The Miracle Morning, a Hall of Fame business achiever, an international keynote speaker, ultra-marathon runner, and the founder of vipsuccesscoaching.com, Mr. Hal Elrod. Hal: All right, Achieve Your Goal Podcast listeners this is Hal Elrod. This is a solo episode. We haven't done a solo episode in a while, meaning nobody's here, it's just me. Not even Nick, not even our buddy Nick Palkowski's on the line, it just me today. We've been interviewing a lot of fascinating people lately and I decided to do a solo episode, it was actually inspired by this new tool that I got called the productivity planner. No this is not a sponsored- It sounds like an ad, a sponsorship plug. "Check out the productivity planner." No, actually it's a tool that was created by our friends UJ Ramdas and Alex Ikonn that created The Five Minute journal, they're the owners of the company Intelligent Change. This productivity planner, I got it in the mail, they did a Kickstarter a few months back. I got in the mail, I don't know, a week ago and I've HalElrod.com/111 started using it and I'm loving it. I'm loving it. In fact my only gripe is that it doesn't have a spot necessarily for a pen so that I can have it with me at all times. Well, I can have it with me at all times but I've got to have a pen somewhere attached to it. Anyway, the point is I'm not going to talk about the productivity planner as much as I'm going to talk about what this reminded of you will. I had to be more productive, right? We're going to talk about some productivity hacks today and how to achieve more with less. The one thing in the opening pages of the productivity planner, and I guess I'm holding it my hand so I am going to reference this as we go through the episode today, I was reminding of the very old story, a real life story of Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab, if you're not familiar with Charles, he was the owner of Bethlehem Steel Company, which became the single biggest independent steel producer back in, I believe, early 1900s. Schwab became on of the wealthiest people in the world. There's this story of how Schwab was frustrated with his employees, at the lack of their productivity at one point. He made a deal with them that he would reward the person who increased productivity for their company. In that process he came across Ivy Lee, and Ivy Lee gave him a singular life changing piece of advice. The advice that Ivy gave to him was very simple. He said the process that Ivy was using was using for productivity is that every evening before finishing work, you might want to jot these down, this is not rocket science but are you doing it, right? That's always the question, it's not what you it's what you do that matters. Every evening before finishing work Ivy would do 5 things, or 4 things really. Number 1, he would write down 3 to 5 things that he planned to get done the next day. That's the first, write down 3 to 5 things that you plan to get done the next day. Second thing, rank them from highest to lowest priority. Of those 3 or 5 things what's the most important? Then in the morning start working on the task of the highest priority, HalElrod.com/111 and then last but not least only move on to the next task when you've completed the current task. Only move on to task number 2 when you're completed task number 3, onto 3 once you've completed 2 and so on and so forth, and then repeat that process. While this may sound simple and you may go, "Yeah, that's nothing new," most of the ideas that we need to implement in our lives are typically fundamentals that have worked for successful people for decades or for centuries. Miracle Morning is a great example of that, the 6 practices known as the life savers, none of those were new bust most people were having trouble implementing any one of those. Meditation was something that they had always thought of implementing or wanted to implement but they weren't implementing it. Maybe journaling was that for them or maybe it's morning exercise or whatever. None of these were new, it was just putting them into a system and actually making it doable so that every day you could check off your list that you meditated, you did your affirmations, visualization, reading, exercise, journaling, et cetera. Ivy stressed to Charles Schwab the importance of completing the tasks in order of priority and resisting the urge to go to the next task before completing the previous one. If you don't complete the list of 5 tasks, you don't sweat it. If you get 3 or 4 of the tasks done that's fine, the important thing is to maintain focus on getting the highest priority task done. Now if you're heard the story before, the part that makes it pretty amazing is that at the end of 3 weeks, Charles Schwab sent Ivy Lee a check for $25,000. Today that would be roughly $300,000 in 2015, give or take. He included a note to Ivy mentioning that it was the most valuable pieces of business advice he had ever received. It was within 5 years that their company, Bethlehem Steel, became the single biggest independent steel producer, making Schwab one of the wealthiest man in the world. I share that with you, like I said it's nothing that you probably haven't heard before but are you doing that every day? I know that I'm not, HalElrod.com/111 that's where the productivity planner, getting this and having a tool to do it, it's like I've known this for years and sometime I do it, sometimes I don't, sometimes I've been better than others. But what ends up happening, and this is human nature, think if you can relate to this. What ends up happening is you've got your to do list and you often look at it and human nature is to take the path of least resistance, that's human nature. We grab our to do list and we look at it and we go, "Hey what's something I could check off?" To kind of almost trick myself into feeling like I'm making progress. But there's the different between being busy, which is just doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff, and then making progress which is actually completing activities or tasks or projects that are moving you in a meaningful direction and achieving the goals that matter the most in your life. That, as simple as it is, are you doing it? If not, like me, if this is an area of improvement for you, that's all I want you to get out of this call. I don't know how long it's going to be, it's not a call, it's a podcast, but I don't think it will be a real long one, although I always say that. The point is, from now on, starting today at the end of each day, you prioritize what are the top 3 to 5 most important tasks that you will complete tomorrow, that you prioritize once you've written those down from 1 to 3, or 1 to 5, which is the most important, which is the most significant, and then the next day you execute in order and you don't move on to task number 2 until you've completed task number 3, or task number 1, you get what I'm saying with that. I'm going to flip through the productivity planner here. One of the things that the productivity planner uses, which I never knew the name of this but back in my sales days when I was in direct sales, this is actually the single most valuable technique that helped me rise to the top of my field, of all the sales people in my company. It's known as the Pomodoro technique. The Pomodoro technique it is named after, Pomodoro is Italian for tomato and it gets its name from HalElrod.com/111
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