MODULE TWO

MODULE TWO

INSANE
PRODUCTIVITY

INSANE RESULTS. INSANELY FAST. SANELY.

INSANE
PRODUCTIVITY
INSANE RESULTS. INSANELY FAST. SANELY.
4 Productivity Crushing ______________
Notes:______________________
that are crippling your performance and wrecking
__________________________
your potential.
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How your human weakness is being preyed upon. __________________________
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1) __________________ __________________________
We Want to Be Wanted __________________________
Human need: To be validated, accepted. __________________________
__________________________
Every email, text, blog comment, Facebook response, __________________________
tweet gives us a squirt of the ______________ drug.
__________________________
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Many suffer the... “Everyone ought to love me
______________ the time” syndrome. __________________________
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GAME-CHANGING Mindset Shift __________________________
__________________________
If people around you are happy with you, you are __________________________
______________ doing your great work. __________________________
You are too wound up pleasing everyone else. __________________________
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Strategies of HIGH-PERFORMANCE __________________________
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______________ don’t like the President of
__________________________
the United States
__________________________

The higher you climb the fewer will like you. __________________________
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Be leery of the ______________ around you, __________________________
content with staying in the trap. __________________________
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Who will ______________ at your funeral? __________________________
Never mind the rest. __________________________
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______________ - ______________ - ______________ __________________________

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Whose opinion do you need to stop caring about?
Notes:______________________
Write down (at least) three people.
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_____________________ __________________________
_____________________ __________________________
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2) _________________ __________________________
The “What Am I Missing?” syndrome. __________________________
Human need: Belonging, to be “in the herd”; inclusion. __________________________
__________________________
Called “continuous partial attention.” “Always scanning __________________________
the periphery in case something more important surfaces.
__________________________
To be busy and connected is to feel alive, but the
__________________________
consequence is we are over-stimulated, overwound, and
ultimately unproductive and unfulfilled.” __________________________
– Linda Stone, former Apple and Microsoft researcher __________________________
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It’s random _____________________. The fact that you __________________________
don’t know when important news will come means you will __________________________
quickly engage in obsessive-compulsive behavior. __________________________
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______________ Yourself Out __________________________
Food pellet distributed at same time: rat only looks then.
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Distributed at random times: rat doesn’t know when reward
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is coming. Driven to check incessantly.
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Human Pellets: Facebook postings, Tweets, Emails, LinkedIN __________________________
notifications, Blog comments, RSS Feeds, Pintrest updates. __________________________
Brings same obsessive-compulsive behavior. Temptation to __________________________
check continuously is almost insatiable. __________________________
__________________________
“Long-term studies prove the most important human disci- __________________________
pline involved in long-term success is the ability to forego __________________________
___________________ ___________________
__________________________
for a larger but delayed reward.”
__________________________
–W
 alter Mischel Department of Psychology Columbia University
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Strategies of HIGH-PERFORMANCE Notes:______________________

__________________________
GAME-CHANGING Mindset Shift
__________________________
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You DON’T need to ___________________.
__________________________
Spend less time following other people’s __________________________
lives and more leading __________________________
______________ ______________. __________________________
__________________________
Separate THE world from __________________________
______________ ______________. __________________________
Your emergencies, news updates, goals and priorities. __________________________
__________________________
Be IN the world, but not
__________________________
______________ ______________ ______________.
__________________________
It’s easier and more effective to ______________ __________________________
temptation than to resist it. __________________________
__________________________
What news, education, information, alerts and updates do you __________________________
(really) need to support the goals of you and your family? __________________________
______________ ______________ everything else. __________________________
__________________________
Maybe, just maybe, the NEXT piece of information will be __________________________
the key to your success, right? It’s the opposite:
__________________________
Your success hinges on your willingness to
__________________________
______________
missing some information. __________________________
__________________________
What parts of THE world can you turn off __________________________
so you can better improve YOUR world? __________________________
Write down (at least) three things. __________________________
_____________________ __________________________
_____________________ __________________________
_____________________ __________________________
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3) ______________
Notes:______________________
Busy Being Busy and Accomplishing Little.
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Human need: Desirability. I’m important, significance.
__________________________
Busy can feel ___________________! __________________________
We feel important, needed, validated, “productive” and __________________________
distracted (from real work). __________________________
__________________________
It offers a convenient excuse: “I’m constantly doing, giving, __________________________
striving, achieving and working just as hard as I can.” __________________________
__________________________
As a culture we are ___________________ __________________________
with racing so as to fulfill a sense of productivity.
__________________________
__________________________
We have URGENCY Addiction.
__________________________
We conquer sprawling to-do lists with hopes that we will __________________________
feel accomplished. But “productivity” is a false comfort and, __________________________
ultimately, unproductive. __________________________
__________________________
Everyone likes to look busy. Some make a career out of it. __________________________
Zooming around, accomplishing very little. __________________________
It’s called: ______________ ______________. __________________________
__________________________
We are psychologically conditioned
__________________________
from infancy to do what’s
___________________ & ___________________. __________________________
rather than what’s hard and necessary. __________________________
__________________________
Distractions offer us __________________________
____________________. __________________________
Seemingly justified excuse __________________________
__________________________
On average...we are distracted every ______________ __________________________
minutes and it takes ______________ minutes to regain __________________________
concentration. (See anything wrong with that?)
__________________________
__________________________
40% of time we don’t resume task previously working on.
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We have to go to ___________________ against distrac-
Notes:______________________
tions. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures.
__________________________

Move from reacting to ___________________. __________________________

Work on your agenda, not responding to someone else’s. __________________________
__________________________
Your boss is no longer in corner office. __________________________
______________ ______________ __________________________
Has become the device in your pocket. __________________________
__________________________
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and __________________________
spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” __________________________
– Rita Mae Brown
__________________________

We’re addicted to ___________________. __________________________

We’re afraid of our own mind and company. __________________________
We thrive on that frenetic energy. Speed, volume, drama, __________________________
tension... You need it to avoid YOURSELF. __________________________
__________________________
Like a muscle unused, we have created attention __________________________
___________________. __________________________
We’re losing our ability to concentrate and stay focused. __________________________
__________________________
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Strategies of HIGH-PERFORMANCE __________________________
__________________________
Don’t Mistake:
__________________________
Rushing for ______________
__________________________
Movement for ______________
Activity for ______________ __________________________
__________________________
There is a big difference between LONG WORK & __________________________
_____________ _____________ __________________________
otherwise known as REAL WORK. __________________________
__________________________
Instead of trying to do MORE to get better results, __________________________
opt to do more of the __________________ things. __________________________
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Don’t Major in Minors.
Notes:______________________
Spending Major time on __________________ activities.
__________________________
Those things that matter the least should not
get in the way of those things that matter the most. __________________________
__________________________
Strategy to immediately __________________ __________________________
your productivity and results. __________________________
__________________________
Recent Study involving FORTUNE 500 CEOs: __________________________
Average CEO logs about ___________________ __________________________
of genuine productivity each day. __________________________
__________________________
Jack Welch said, “I doubt it’s that much.”
__________________________
Updated FORTUNE 500 CEO study revealed:
__________________________
_________________!
__________________________
__________________________
_____________ _____________ __________________________
The high-intensity training and practice __________________________
regimen of elite performers. __________________________
__________________________
__________________ & __________________ __________________________
__________________________
Create a bubble of __________________.
__________________________
__________________________
Get __________________.
If they can’t find you, they can’t interrupt you. __________________________
__________________________
Schedule __________________ time. __________________________
__________________________
Time length: __________________________
__________________ __________________________
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