3 Ways To Get More Done

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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. Because I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn yourself, grow and improve. Because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life. So if you want more of that, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Today I'm going to be teaching you how to be more productive, how to get more done in less time, and how to stop being such a big busy bee.

I guess you could say.

You know, I've worked with a lot of people over time and I have this day that kind of pops up and is told to me all of the time. And you've probably felt this way before, which is, hey, I work so much but I don't feel like I'm getting anything done. You ever had one of those days where you're just working, working, working and you're slaving away and you're doing something at the end of the day you're like, man, I'm exhausted, but I don't feel like I did anything. If so you are probably being busy and not being productive. So there's a massive difference between busy and productive. Busy is just doing things, being productive. Productivity is conquering the most important things. And let's Be real. You waste a lot of time, don't you? Like, we all do. It's funny because I'll talk with people and they're like, I'm so busy. I'm so busy. I'm so busy. I'm like, show me your calendar. And they're like, well, I don't really keep a calendar. I kind of have a little bit here. Most people that I have found are absolutely terrible with time management. So it's not that they don't have enough time. It's usually that you're not really good at managing their time. We all want a perfect life. We all want to make money and travel the world and have fun and buy some cool things and donate a bunch of money to the world and have great relationships. We all want a perfect life. But what's really interesting about being a human is that you only get 24 hours every single day. You and every single person on this earth gets 24 hours. That will never change. You cannot control time. The only thing that we can change is how productive we are when we want to get something done. Now this is not an episode about hustle, culture and working your ass off all day long. I used to be that person and I'm telling you, don't be that person. Learn from my mistakes. That's not how you get to success. Let me say that again. You can get to success, but you're going to hate your life on the way over there. And so what I recommend is like having a time where you click on to be productive, to get stuff done, whether that's your business, whether that's work, whether that's, you know, helping the children get something done with their schoolwork, whatever it might be. When you click in, you're in. There is nothing else that you're doing. When you click out, you are out. You're not thinking about it, you're not going back into it. So today we're going to dive into how to get a lot more done in less time. Because when you look at the average person that works an eight hour day, they only usually get about two to maybe three hours of productivity done, which means that they're wasting time or trying to multitask or trying to do a whole bunch of other things for five hours out of the day. And so we're going to talk about some stuff about how to get more done based in psychology, based in studies to teach you what has actually been proven to work. And, and I'm going to teach you these different techniques to kind of help you do more in less time. The first one, the one that a lot of people don't know about, you've probably heard about it is something called the 8020 rule, the Pareto principle. And so you have to understand our brain is a very energy consuming organism or organ is what it is. Your brain consumes more energy per pound than any other organ in your entire body. Right now. Digestion takes more energy throughout the day. But as far as the actual brain itself, and for how big it is, it actually takes the most amount of energy. And so what I think about is how can I use every bit of energy to be as productive as possible when I'm trying to be productive? Because our brain has limited capacity to process information, we have limited energy throughout the entire day. How can I bring as much energy of my brain power to what matters most? And so the way to kind of really think about that is to realize what am I dedicating my time to in the 8020 rule? The Pareto principle is basically this. 80% of the results that you get in your life. This could be your business, this could be the company that you work for, this could be your clients. And the revenue that comes in your relationships come from 20% of your actions. So like for instance, if I have run a business, which I do, and I help a lot of people who do run businesses, right? If I run a business, there are a million things I could be doing every single day. But 20% of those actions are the most important actions. 20% will usually give me 80% of the results. They might even give me 90% of the results. But 20%, and you know, it doesn't have to add up to 100 because I'm talking about 20% of my actions and which is actions on the other side. I'm talking about results. 20% of your actions that you do on a daily basis in your business are the most important things you should be doing. So if you're a CEO and you've got employees, you should find a way to delegate everything except for those 20% of your actions.

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dialogue if you are a salesperson, usually your commissions and you look at your commissions throughout the entire year, usually 20% of the clients are the majority of your commissions. If you're in relationship, 20% of the things that you do are going to bring the majority of the connection, the happiness, the joy between you as well. And so what we want to do by looking at this is we want to identify and concentrate on the tasks that are going to give us the most significant results. It's crazy to me when I work with business owners, how much time they waste doing stuff that does not matter because they either are afraid of taking the big action because the big action could yield some failure and that would make them feel bad about themselves, or because they have problems delegating. This happens all the time. And so when you're focusing on the most critical task, you, what you want to do is you want to minimize as many distractions you can so that you can really like optimize your cognitive resources and be in it. As Cal Newport says, you want to be able to do deep work on those things and you really want to start putting a whole lot of deep work into that. And so the thing that I've shared, which is a very simple thing that I recommend that everybody does every single morning, is you make a to do list every single morning. If you're a business owner, if you're a mother, if you're a father, if you are somebody who is a high school athlete, whatever it might be that you're doing, if you're a college student, write down all of your to do list. And then what I want you to do to make it very simple, because you cannot get, you probably won't get your entire to do list done today, is you find and you circle the three most important tasks. This is what I do every single morning when I'm meeting with my team is with my energy. I want to put all of my energy or the majority of my energy into the biggest, I call it. I always tell my team the biggest levers that I can pull. What is the biggest lever that I can pull right now? I could be working until midnight, 1am every single day, but I don't. And so with the time that I have, if I'm going to get done at 5, 6 o', clock, what's the biggest lever that I can pull right now that can make the biggest impact in the business? So you make your to do list and you circle the most important, the three most important tasks. Then you get A three by five card, an index card, and you write down number one and you rank them. Number one, number two, and number three. Just work on number one. Don't do anything else except for number one. This, this helps you identify the biggest needle moving lever pulling task that you could possibly do for today. And what you want to do is you want to just write all of them down, the three things. And if you, if you don't do anything else except for get number one done, it's a pretty damn productive day. If you get number two done as well and number three done as well, you had a really great day. But all of the other things you can either delegate, you can eliminate, or you can do another time. That's it. You delegate them, you eliminate them, or you can do another time. And that's really what it comes down to, is identifying what are the most important tasks that I could be doing. So that's the first thing is the 8020 rule, the Pareto principle. The next thing that I recommend people do is to batch. Batch as much as you possibly can when you're doing stuff. And so for me, like, I'm creating content today. Today is one of my content creation days. And so I woke up in the morning and I did, you know, I checked in with my team after 10 o' clock because in the morning is when I am the most creative for me. And so I looked back and I was like, okay, I know I need to plan episodes today. I need to record episodes today. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to look through all of my ideas. I have this massive list of ideas that I've been putting together over years and years of recording this podcast. And I just see which one hits home with me this, and then I find the one. And then what I do is I start writing them all out, I start putting bullet points and starting to make a flow of the podcast. And I'll do two episodes in the morning. Morning, late afternoon. Ish, late. Excuse me, late morning as well. And then I come to the studio and I record two or three podcast episodes whenever I come to the studio. When I first had the podcast, this is not even me lying. And the podcast used to come out only three times a week. I used to record the episode the night before. Sometimes, majority of the time I'd record that. Oh my God, I got to put an episode out tomorrow. What should I talk about? I just plan out real quick and I put it up. It's way easier to, to plan in record and to batch them. I'm in the flow of writing. I'm in the flow of writing. I'm gonna go ahead and get them done. I'm in the flow of recording. I'm gonna go ahead and get them done. So, like yesterday I planned and planned two episodes. I recorded two episodes and then I planned six reels for Instagram and then recorded six reels for Instagram so that over a few hours, I'm doing the biggest needle moving thing that I can do. And that is have more people aware of the brand, more people aware of the business. What can you do to batch what it is that you do? Instead of saying, oh, I'm going to do an email here and then 20 minutes later I'm going to check my email here. I think the average person, I saw a study that says they check their email 32 times a day. Holy shit, that's crazy. What if you just checked your email in the morning and you got emails done and then you didn't look at them again until 4 o' clock and then you got emails done from 4 to 5, right? Like, how can you learn to start batching things that you're doing often? And then what you do is you look at your schedule and you schedule and batch the most important tasks. And I do this every. Every single Wednesday and Thursday I record and then sometimes Wednesday, Thursday and today is Friday. Three days in a row. Plan, record, plan, record. Cause I'm trying to get ahead because if you listen to episode two or three episodes ago, my wife is pregnant. So I'm gonna take some time off from recording. So I'm actually trying to get ahead so that I could take some time off for recording once the baby comes. So that's the next thing is to batch. So 80, 20, which is called the Pareto principle. There's batching. And then the last one is if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, I love getting messages from you guys saying that you never did this before you started doing it and it completely changed your productivity. Because it completely changed my productivity as well. It is called the Pomodoro technique. I have an entire episode on it. If you want to go back and listen to the Pomodoro technique, But really what it comes down to is it is impossible for a human to multitask. There are many studies that show that multitasking is just single tasking and you're switching between two things at one time. When you switch, there is a little bit of a delay in time. It could be up to 15 minutes for you to get your brain into, like fully be in that thing. And so multitasking, they showed it makes people dumber. It also makes the quality of your work worse. Google it. Just check, is multitasking good or bad? But, you know, there was a study just to kind of give you an idea that was done at Stanford that found out that heavy multitaskers performed worse on tasks that required attention and memory than those that were focused at one task at a time. And so the research really supports the idea that prioritizing your high impact tasks and avoiding multitasking makes you more productive. And so with the Pomodoric technique is you. You basically identify one thing that needs to be done and you shut out the rest of the world. You put on your headphones, you put your phone in another room so that you don't accidentally go for it. You turn off all of your notifications on your computer. You put a sign on the door that says, don't bother me because I'm getting shit done. And literally, you take 25 minutes and you put 25 minutes. I wrote about this in my book Level up of how to do the Pomodoro technique and how to do what I call Pomodoro plus, which is a whole other technique that I've kind of, kind of built over years. And so you do the pomodoro technique, it's 25 minutes on, five minutes off. And in those 25 minutes, you only do one thing, and you bring 100% of your brain power. And that's like, as Cal Newport would say, that's where you actually put in the deep work. And so you put in deep work for 25 minutes. Now, if you, if you get done at those 25 minutes, you can then go to your next task. But if you don't get done, you just go back to that task again until that task is done. And so it's 25 minutes on, five minutes off. Because in those five minutes, you need to give your brain a full rest. When I say full rest, that means you don't look at your phone. You don't, you don't do much. You can go outside, you can go for a walk for five minutes, or you could just sit at your desk, close your eyes, and breathe for five minutes. You're giving your brain a rest. It's like lifting really heavy weight. You got to take a rest for a few minutes, and then you go back into lifting really heavy weights. And the Pomodoro technique will absolutely change your life. And your productivity is so damn simple, but it works so well. One thing, one thing. Only 100% of your brain power to this one thing. And so if you really start to think about it, if you can figure out a way to start using the 8020 rule to identify the biggest tasks that need to be done today that will be the most productive things that you could do. You batch out the things that can all be done, like, oh, I need to record three episodes, four episodes this week. Well, I can just get all of those done in one day or two days. You batch them. But then when you sit down to work, it needs to be. I have an entire chapter in this, my book. You can read about it and level up, but it has become a ritual. It needs to become a thing where it's instead of like, oh, shit, I got to get. Sit here and get work done. It's like, it's a ritual, not a habit. Habits are habits. You know, routines are routines. But a ritual, like, feels important. It is important that I bring 100% of my brain power to this task. You will get more done and you will be light years ahead of other people years down the road. Because most people, as I said, only get two hours of productivity done, maybe three hours of productivity. If you can get five hours done, you're light years ahead of people in a year. And you're in a completely different universe five years down the road. And so what's most important is to stop being busy, start being productive, and to start focusing on the needle moving tasks and getting those crossed off your list every single day and then bringing 100% of your brain power when you're doing those things to bring the best of yourself and everything that you do. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on your Instagram stories. Tag me at robdial Junior. Also, if you haven't heard the past few episodes, if you love this podcast, I'm launching a thing called Mindset Mentor Plus. It's an entire community and platform to help you not just listen to the podcast passively, but actually actively integrate this fully into your life. There's a lot of different ways we're gonna do it. There are detailed worksheets for every single episode so that you can use them as study guides and get better. There's thought provoking journaling prompts. 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