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Rewire your brain and overcome the 20 key time drains that diminish productivity For anyone who's felt valuable time frittered away in checking emails or answering wrong phone numbers, or listening to a coworker giving you a minute-by-minute account of their previous night's date, help is finally here. Your time is, indeed, your own. And this handy guide, written by a leading executive coach, shows you how to retool your brain, reclaim your schedule, become a master of each minute, and make yourself more productive.
Using a method that is intuitive, easy to remember, and simple to use, this book will help you transform how you think, what you focus on, and what you do so that you can begin to create tangible results.
Includes exercises that help you learn important thinking skills—essential to tackling important projects and attaining all those once elusive goals
Features highly visual exercises that are quick to complete, allowing you to change your habits and see improvements right away
Identifies the 20 key time drains that interfere with productivity and happiness
Full of creative, fun, and proven solutions to the common bugaboos of procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, and a general dissatisfaction with results, Get Productive! offers concrete steps toward rethinking how you work and reworking how you think.
Contents
The Perfect Starting Point (if You Don't Know Where to Start) viii
1. Find Your Own Productivity Balance 1
Section One - HELP! I'M JUST NOT GETTING ANYWHERE 7
2. Assess Your Energy Levels 8
3. Find Your Energy Drains and Enhancers 13
4. Improve How You Connect With Others 18
5. Simplify Unnecessary Complexity 24
6. Figure Out Your Key Priorities 29
7. Overcome Your Procrastination With Action 34
8. Create a 'Feel Good' State 39
Section Two - TO DO: GET TO KNOW SELF 43
9. Examine What's Important For You Now 44
10. Find Your Key Values From Seemingly Random Things 50
11. Discover Your Needs and Desires 55
12. Use Past Failures to Build Resilience and Strength 61
13. Clarify Your Goals 68
14. Be Productive Across All Your Key Priorities 73
15. Work Out Where Your Actions Are Taking You 79
Section Three - NOT GOOD ENOUGH! 85
16. Face Your Productivity Ally 86
17. Use Your Emotions to Generate Positive Results 92
18. Unlock Your Perspective to Make Better Decisions 97
19. Understand How Your Brain Helps You to Be Productive 102
20. Take Control of Your Fear 107
21. Follow Your WANTs Instead of Your MUSTs 113
22. Use the Power of Criticism to Become Your True Best 117
23. Take Responsibility For What You Create 122
Section Four - GET PRODUCTIVE AND JUST DO IT! 127
24. Identify Your Productivity Blockers 128
25. Thirteen Proven Productivity Strategies You Need to Know 133
26. Develop Productive Thinking 157
27. Develop Productive Conversations 162
28. Ask Productive Questions 168
Section Five - GET IN THE ZONE AND MAKE TIME COUNT 173
29. Take Control of the Impact You Make 174
30. Identify How You Add Value 179
31. Uncover Your Specific and Unique Capabilities 183
32. Get Results That Are Worth the Effort 190
33. Hone Your Key Message(s) 195
34. Mine Your Past Successful Strategies 199
35. Give Yourself Permission to Shine 203
36. Find the Tribe That Will Help You Soar 207
What Does True Productivity Feel Like? 212
Final Note 215
Further Reading 217
Thanks 218
About the Author 220
