Extreme Productivity with Kevin Kruse: Recent Episodes
Kevin Kruse
Would you like to 10x your productivity while adding at least one extra hour of free time to your day? Join Kevin Kruse, a New York Times bestselling author and Inc 500 serial entrepreneur as he shares time management tips, tools and actionable advice from entrepreneurs, self-made millionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students and other ultra-productive people.
On today\'s episode, I interview a 12-year-old novelist, who increased her productivity so much that she now writes over 2500 words per hour and finished the first draft of her book in only one month.
Pete Mockaitis is a former Bain consultant who now coaches top executives in extreme productivity. He is also the host of the https://awesomeatyourjob.com/podcast/ (How To Be Awesome At Your Job) podcast.
NY Times bestselling author, Kevin Kruse answers questions from business students in June Covington’s Leadership and Motivation class at Chico State.
NY Times bestselling author, Kevin Kruse discusses the shadow side of having a growth mindset and more.
Michael Hyatt is a New York Times bestselling author of three books and his newest is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F3DM7C1/?tag=leadx-20 (Free to Focus).
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse talks about the key ideas in his new book, Great Leaders Have No Rules.
Buy the book here: http://norulesleadership.com (http://norulesleadership.com)
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
NY Times best selling author, Kevin Kruse, answers listener questions about productivity.
In this episode, I’ll teach you how to beat procrastination and become productive.
What you’re going to learn:
The four types of procrastination
The best tips to cure procrastination
Key Quotes:
“Leaders often get promoted in their careers because they get things done.”
“Ultra-productive people don’t use to-do lists.”
“Be clear on your MIT.”
In this episode, I’ll tell you what’s the best type of notebook to use.
What you’re going to learn:
What type of notebook to use to improve your productivity.
Key Quotes:
“Go from being a lister to a scheduler.”
“Lines (in a notebook) mess all that up.”
In this episode, I’ll give you tips on staying focused while working in a noisy open office.
What you’re going to learn:
Tips on how to develop focused attention while staying in a noisy open office.
Key Quotes:
“Play non-distracting music or sounds.”
“The most productive people are those who take more breaks.”
In this episode, I’ll teach you how to accomplish all the list of things that you want to do.
What you’re going to learn:
Tips on how to develop a process on all the things that you need to be doing to actually get them done.
Key Quotes:
“We cannot make more minutes.”
“Give time as a gift to yourself first.”
In this episode, I’ll teach you the right way of note-taking.
What you’re going to learn:
Practical tips in note-taking to improve productivity.
Key Quotes:
“Jot down with bullets, asterisks or arrows on key points.”
“Just jot down what you need.”
In this episode, I’ll share with you tips on making sure your team remains productive.
What you’re going to learn:
The four ways to ensure productivity in your team
Key Quotes:
“Set a cultural norm that meetings get scheduled in the afternoons, not in the mornings.”
“Make sure you’re rewarding your team for productivity.”
In this episode, I’ll teach you how to avoid distractions while working at home.
What you’re going to learn:
How to use your free time more at home more productively
How to live off from your calendar, block distracting websites, and stay focused on your motivation.
Key Quotes:
“Control your environment during your 30-minute breaks.”
“Make your plan, block your environment… and get clear on the things that you’d rather be doing with that time.”
In this episode, I’m going to share how new parents who are career-driven learn how to observe time management.
What you’re going to learn:
Ways to maximize energy to achieve higher productivity
How to be clear on your Most Important Task (MIT)
Key Quotes:
“Be okay if you can’t optimize everything.”
“Sleep is an investment in your career, marriage and sanity.”
In this episode, I’m going to reveal five steps to get you out of bed alert, awake and productive.
What you’re going to learn:
The Five-Minute Snooze-Proof Wake-Up Strategy
Key Quotes:
“If you want to win the day, it starts the night before.”
“Ultra-productive people know that dehydration impacts our productivity.”
In this episode, I’m going to share habits and techniques on writing to make your life better.
What you’re going to learn:
The Five-Minute Snooze-Proof Wake-Up Strategy
The daily habits to help you to become more, so you can achieve more.
Key Quotes:
“Creating a successful morning routine is the core value of the book.”
“Athletes don’t pick the days they will play in games; they are told which days to play and they play to their best ability whether they feel like it or not.”
In this episode, I’m going to explain how to prioritize the opportunities that come your way.
What you’re going to learn:
Identify what your real priorities are
How to manage your schedule today to avoid conflict in the future
Key Quotes:
“The future you will be is just as busy as the present you. If not more.”
“Just because your calendar is empty now, doesn’t mean it will be when the time comes.”
In this episode, I’m going to teach you how to turn your goals into MITs.
What you’re going to learn:
The Importance of the Most Important Task (MIT)
MITs For Big Company Workers
Key Quotes:
“Identifying your MIT makes your scheduling decisions much easier.”
“Simply, the most important things are to know what to focus on and how you are going to get it done.”
In this episode, I’m going to explain how to manage your most important asset — time.
What you’re going to learn:
Why time is a more valuable asset compared to health, money and friends
How you can guard yourself from the so-called “time thieves” that rob you of valuable time.
Key Quotes:
“You can never lose time and get it back again. “
“Meetings are notorious for killing time.”
In this episode, I’m going to teach you how to fix your broken meetings.
What you’re going to learn:
The top reasons behind bad meetings in the workplace
How to change bad meeting culture that affects productivity
Key Quotes:
“Bad meeting culture is like a disease to your organization.”
“When in doubt, leave them out.”
In this episode, I’m going to teach you how to talk to your boss about productivity in the way that she’s going to listen.
What you’re going to learn:
How to discuss productivity issues with your boss
How can you talk to your boss about new productivity strategies
Key Quotes:
“There are also plenty of leaders who rely on their team members to challenge them.”
“Seek to proactively partner with your boss so they can benefit from your improved productivity.”
In this episode, I’m going to completely shift your mindset on task delegation.
What you’re going to learn:
The value of delegating your work to get more things done
How you can balance your work and family time by hiring an assistant
Key Quotes:
“When you outsource work to others, you free up the time you need to work on your passions—and take advantage of your abilities and strengths.”
“People who actively look for things to delegate report higher levels of productivity…”
In this episode, I’m going to share with you how you can apply the Dalai Lama’s attitude on minimalism to business.
What you’re going to learn:
How minimalism can provide positive effects to your life
How the Dalai Lama’s attitude on minimalism is connected to the Pareto Principle
Key Quotes:
“We can probably take inspiration from the Dalai Lama, who clearly doesn’t need objects to feel happy.”
“Develop your skills to be exceptional in a few targeted areas; don’t try to master everything.”
Today, I’m going to reveal how you can get more stuff done with less stress.
What you’re going to learn:
The secrets to increasing your productivity through “energy management” instead of time management.
How to use your energy efficiently to get more things done during the day.
Key Quotes:
“The key is to effectively use the energy you already have.”
“Identify when you work best, and focus on these high-level activities during your ‘maximum productivity window.'”
In this episode, I’m going to teach you how you to refuse meeting requests without making people angry.
What you’re going to learn:
How to politely decline meetings from strangers
What to write on your email when saying “no” to strangers who want to meet
Key Quotes:
“Every “yes” is a “no” to something else.”
“The word “deadline” has a magic to it, a power that most people can relate to.”
Today, I’m sharing the details of my first cryotherapy chamber experience.
What you’re going to learn:
How I found myself getting into a sophisticated machine that engulfed me in sub-freezing liquid nitrogen
My evaluation on the physical effects of cryotherapy
Key Quotes:
“I start shivering and think it’s kind of like running outside in your underwear in the middle of the night during winter.”
“I started a breathing meditation to keep my mind off the cold.”
In this episode, I’m spilling the beans on how you can maximize your sleep results.
What you’re going to learn:
The strategies to help you achieve quality sleep
How to create a sleep sanctuary
Key Quotes:
“We can’t actually manage time, but we can manage our energy, focus and attention.”
“As a rule, you should consider a caffeine ban after 2 PM.”
Today, I’m going to explain how you can solve the meeting problem in your organisation.
What you’re going to learn:
How meeting overload is affecting your organization’s productivity
The solutions organizations can implement to fix the meeting problem
Key Quotes:
“Meetings get in the way of real productivity.”
“Employees attend 62 meetings per month, with half of those considered to be ‘time wasted’ by participants.”
In this episode, I’m sharing the practices that are better than an open door policy, which actually accomplish the same goals but with less downside.
What you’re going to learn:
The methods that can be used to promote transparency, collaboration, and trust without the negatives that come along with leaving the door open
How to set effective communication to all employees that will prevent them from coming into your office unscheduled
Key Quotes:
“If your door is always open, even figuratively, you never know what your day is going to look like. “
“Weekly meetings enable you to build rapport and to stay in touch on big personal items on an ongoing basis.”
Today, I’m going to discuss why the “open door policy” is harmful to managers and contributors alike.
What you’re going to learn:
The organizational problems associated with an open door policy
How an open door policy contributes to a decline in productivity
Key Quotes:
“Certain employees will naturally resist sharing their input.”
“Leaving the door open discourages your people from appropriate bias-to-action, and limits the opportunities they need to grow.”
In this episode, I’m going to reveal the details on my $25,000 bet with Sir Richard Branson.
What you’re going to learn:
Why a calendar is more effective than a to-do list
Why it is important to stop listing and start scheduling the things you need to accomplish
Key Quotes:
“Different productivity tools will work up to a certain level of productivity demands.”
“If you want to move from average levels of productivity to extreme productivity, ditch your to-do list and live from your calendar.”
On today’s episode, I’m answering a reader’s question. How do you deal with the unexpected things that happen at work?
What you’re going to learn:
How to maintain a schedule and still allow for flexibility
Why scheduling back-to-back meetings may actually be hurting your productivity
A CEO scheduling system that will give you more time for strategic thinking
The difference between your client time and your MIT time
Key Quotes:
“True productivity ninjas actually leave some padding in their schedule.”
“Your MIT should be the task that is going to have the greatest long-term impact at your firm.”
Today I’m giving you 4 simple ways to maximize your energy.
What you’re going to learn:
How to maximize your energy without drinking caffeine or taking other stimulants
Why taking more breaks at work will actually increase your productivity
The amount of exercise you need daily to increase your ability to focus, be creative, make decisions, and stay alert (it’s not as much as you might think)
How to use technology to increase your productivity
Key Quotes:
“You can’t manage time at all. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. “
In this episode, I’m going to give you 3 Harvard questions that can save you 8 hours each week on average.
What you’re going to learn:
The results of a productivity experiment conducted by Harvard professors Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cone that helped participants achieve massive time gains
How to delegate your tasks (even if you don’t have a staff to delegate to)
Online services you can use to take over annoying tasks like grocery shopping, internet research, making doctor appointments (the list goes on and on)
How I manage my own company with a completely virtual team
Key Quotes:
“41% of knowledge workers time is spent on discretionary activities that weren’t very satisfying and could also be done by others.”
“From general freelancers to miscellaneous chores, you can get help for almost any task and probably for less money than you think.”
Today, we’re talking about how one crazy guy goofed off all-day-long and still won a productivity award from his company.
What you’re going to learn:
How Bob (a programmer) was able to goof off all day long on social media and still get his work done on time every day
Why you should stop doing all the tasks that you don’t enjoy (and how to do this without getting fired)
How to make more time in your day for the things you love
Key Quotes:
” I always think I’m the smartest guy in the room, the best guy for every task.”
“You need to ask yourself not how can I do it, not how can I get it done, just how can it get done.”
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You want the answers to extreme productivity? I'm Kevin Kruse and I've got those answers from people like Grant Cardone, John Lee Dumas, Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, Lewis Howes, Chris Tucker, Rory Vaden and about 250 other great entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, even straight A students and others. In the last episode I talked about using the Pareto Principle to erase 80% of your workload. Today, we're talking about how one crazy guy goofed off all-day-long and still won a productivity award from his company. First, I hope you'll hop on over to Amazon.com after this show, check out my new book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. I interviewed over 200 people who gave me their answers, I boiled it down into 15 secrets. Hopefully you'll notice that there's over 200 great reviews on that book on Amazon, many of whom have said the book has been life-changing.
Let's dive in to this episode. In January of 2013, several news outlets reported on the remarkable story of Bob, now, they didn't give his last name, they just called him Bob. Bob with his programming speed and high quality code, his company named him best coder in the building and he got excellent performance reviews. He was a model employee. Bob was in his mid-40s, nothing wrong with that I remind you, and Bob clocked in at 9:00 sharp each morning, sent his boss a daily summary of his productivity before he left every day right at 5:00. Again, he won best coder in the building. If we'd been secretly looking over Bob's shoulder all day to see what he was doing, we would have seen something a little weird.
On Bob's average day, he would read Reddit and watch You Tube videos from about 9:00 o'clock when he got in, to about 11:30, and then he would head out to lunch, yup, kind of an early lunch. He would be gone for about 90 minutes, long lunch, back at 1:00 o'clock when he would promptly spend the next three-and-a-half hours surfing eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media sites. At 4:30, he'd start working on that productivity report, send it to his boss, and he'd go home without writing a single line of code. The next day he'd do the same thing, the day after that he would do the same thing. How could he be a star programmer and goof off day after day? Turns out Bob was very smart.
Instead of asking how can I do this, he asked how can this get done. This is important, write this down, etch it into your brain. He looked at his workload at the software that he was supposed to produce and instead of saying, how can I do it, he said, how can it get done. The answer in Bob's case was he outsourced his task, actually his entire job, to a software company in China. Bob's company was giving him $200,000 a year to do this work. He found out that he can hire a programmer in China for $50,000 a year to do all the work for him leaving him $150,000 a year of net profit for doing nothing.
For the longest time, Bob's company thought he was the star employee, he was so productive, all the while he just surfed the internet eight hours a day. Eventually Bob's company noticed some unusual server activity from China. They thought they were being hacked, and so when they investigated it, they stumbled upon Bob's brilliant scheme....
What is the 80-20 rule and can it make 80% of work disappear?
What you’re going to learn:
How to identify which projects or goals are most important to your organization and which ones are going to get you that promotion
How to apply the 80-20 rule to your work as a freelancer
Key Quotes:
“Don’t try to do everything at once.”
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Hey I'm Kevin Kruse, and I am here to 10x your productivity at least in key areas of your life and to dramatically increase your productivity everywhere. Today I'm extra high energy because Saturday night I did something I don't usually do I went to an NBA basketball game. I'm outside of Philadelphia, so I went and watched the Philadelphia 76ers play the Detroit Pistons. Don't worry this isn't about basketball. If you don't follow American basketball, if you're listening from some other part of the world and don't even know the teams or what I'm talking about it's okay. I only got to about 1 or 2 games a year. I like to go with my friend we take our boys have a good time.
The Sixers this year are horrible. They've won the worst records in the history of the NBA, but we were there for fun games get out to have some cheese steaks and just relax. It was a good game it was a fun game but what made me take notice is all over sudden this short kid for the Sixers comes running out onto the court and the entire pace of the game changed. This guy his name is T.J. McConnell; he all over sudden starts racing up and down the court like someone's chasing him. I mean all the sudden he's going for steals, he's only 6 foot 2 and he's jumping in trying to get rebounds, he's making crazy plays I mean he's bringing it.
It's like nobody told them that the Sixers are going to be in the last place no matter what happens. No one told them that the game didn't really count. He was bringing it no matter what. Like I said I don't follow the Sixers or basketball that much so I'm Googling this guy, turns out he's a rookie he was undrafted. As I mentioned only 6 foot 2 he used to play for Arizona I believe, has no profiles on social media. He's not out there trying to be a star or anything else. That might be a mistake but as soon as he took the courts the entire energy and mood of the game changed. You might not be the star on your team, but you can always bring the energy you might not be the tallest or most naturally gifted.
You can always set the pace you might not have the best jump shot or whatever the analogy is in your career you, but you can always set the tone. This is the underlying secret of productivity. There is no such thing as time management. We can't control time, but we can control our energy and focus. You take two people with the same 1 hour and the same to do list to burn through in that 1 hour. You take someone who's feeling tired, and lethargic, and is multitasking, and is low energy. I'm sounding like Donald Trump accusing people of being low energy, but anyway, you take the other person like T.J. McConnell, who I've never heard of before this undrafted 6 foot 2 rookie, and you decide to bring it. You are high energy you're focused you're not multitasking you're loving what you're doing you're trying to beat the clock.
Who's going to get more done? It's the same 60 minutes, it's the same 1,440 minutes in a day, it's about bringing focused energy to the task at hand. Hats off to T.J. McConnell, and he's my new favorite player. I hope he's got a jersey or something out because I'm going to get it. Listen, in the last episode, I talked about the 6 secrets to stop being so overwhelmed new book for my friend Kelly Exeter. If you didn't hear that episode listen to that one after this one. It's not going anywhere so you can wait. Today I'm going to talk about the very real possibility that you might just be able to make 80% of your workload disappear. You just might be able to ignore it or, at least, give it to someone else.
First,...
Today, I’m going to talk about a http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Perfection-Smart-strategies-excellent/dp/0992441633/ (new book) that just came out that I just loved. It teaches us the secrets to defeating that feeling of being overworked and overwhelmed. It’s by a writer named Kelly Exeter.
What you’re going to learn:
The 3 main reasons people feel overworked and overwhelmed all of the time
6 secret habits to cure the feeling of being overworked and overwhelmed without sacrificing your goals or career advancement
Key Quotes:
“Don’t compare highlight reels with your everyday life.”
“Facebook life is the life everyone would have if we were all living on that TV series Sex in the City.”
“There’s nobody that’s got a perfect family, perfect career, perfect body, and great mental health.”
“Your values, what you truly want from life, are your values. It’s okay that they’re completely different than those around you.”
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Kevin Kruse here with another life changing episode of Extreme Productivity. At least that's my mindset. Every time I record one of these, every article I write, every book that I write, I hope to change at least one person's life. I hope you approach it the same way. I hope you listen to each episode and say, "Hey, let me listen to see if I can get one idea that just might change my life."
I just got back from Key West, about a five day vacation, super long weekend. I think it was the fifth time I've been down there. Finally figured out how to do it right. I mean, it's a food town and I'm finding all the best places to eat. I'm a foodie at heart.
I'm always asked by people wondering if I follow these fifteen productivity principles on the weekend and on vacation and all this kind of stuff. Heck no. I preach extreme productivity for when you're trying to be extremely productive but I also believe in completely unplugging and relaxing when that's what you're supposed to be doing.
I spent time at Irish Kevin's Bar, which is a famous bar down there. One, because I'm Irish. Two, because my name is Kevin. Three, because it's a bar. I also played with the six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's house. You can Google them if you don't know the reference. I've been there two, three times. Ernest Hemingway's house. It's great. It's a great place. Great to learn about Hemingway. As a writer, I like to get inspiration and look around his house and wonder, "Hmm, maybe being a suicidal womanizing alcoholic is the key to great writing." It probably isn't but it might be a fun experiment someday. Last but not least, a friend of mine opened a restaurant. She's got her own restaurant which was off the hook. I mean that literally. It is called Off the Hook. Get it? Seafood? Off the Hook. If you're ever down there, it's amazing. It's on Simonton, not Duval but almost right downtown. It's easy to get to.
I had a great time and I am ready and back. I'm going to binge record a bunch of these episodes here. That's why I'm all fired up.
In the last episode, I talked about how millionaires schedule their day. Today, I'm going to talk about a new book that just came out that I just loved. It teaches us the secrets to defeating that feeling of being overworked and overwhelmed. It's by a writer named Kelly Exeter.
First, as always, I want to make sure that you've gotten that one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. It will help us to stay in touch. Just send me a text message. Send a text to 44222 with the word "achieve" or you can always just go over to the website productivity-podcast.com.
Let's dive in. Do you ever feel like you're a hamster on a wheel? Just running and running, not making any progress. Imagine if you could cure that feeling of being overworked and overwhelmed without sacrificing your goals and your career advancement. I just read a new book...
Do self-made millionaires and ultra productive people think about their day differently? I’ve interviewed hundreds of ultra productive people including billionaires and highly successful entrepreneurs and in this episode, I’m sharing the commonalities in how they start and schedule their day.
What you’re going to learn:
What you should be doing in the first 30-60 minutes of your day
The morning rituals of John Lee Dumas, Kevin O’Leary and Ken Blanchard
How highly successful people manage email throughout their day
The meeting habits of Marissa Mayer and Richard Branson
Key Quotes:
“A productive day is built on a foundation of a strong morning.”
“One of the saddest mistakes in time management is the propensity of people to spend the two most productive hours in their day on things that don’t require high cognitive capacity, like social media. If we could salvage those precious hours, most of us would be much more successful in accomplishing what we truly want.”
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All right, all right. I am Kevin Kruse. Welcome to the show where I am teaching you how to 10x your productivity based on my research into highly successful people, the highest achievers out there in various fields. In the last episode I shared Mark Cuban's number one productivity secret, and today I'm going to explain how self-made multi-millionaires schedule their day. How do they go back planning their day? Let's start by getting you that cheat sheet, the one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. One page tool you can use right away, an instant download. All you need to do is send a text message to 44222 with the word achieve, or just come on over to the podcast website. It's productivity-podcast.com. Do self-made millionaires and ultra productive people, do high achievers, do they think about their day differently? What you're going to hear in this episode, if you've been following along and you listen to the previous episodes, this is going to be a good reminder, a good anchoring of a lot of the concepts we've been introducing on their own. As I've spoken to and interviewed hundreds of ultra productive people, I keep hearing these common themes over and over again. First, self-made millionaires, ultra productive people, they have a sacred morning ritual. Back when I was young and dumb, the alarm would go off, I'd take my five or ten minute shower, I'd race out the door, stop at the 7-Eleven for a cup of coffee on the way in and dive in because I just felt I was more productive getting into the office. I wasn't hungry, I didn't need food, and that's how I started my day. That's not how ultra productive people start their day. They know that a productive day is built on a foundation of a strong morning. Rather than racing out the door, they spend thirty to sixty minutes strengthening their mind and their body. Hal Elrod, I bring him up a lot, he talks about the miracle morning. Instead of trying to achieve more by doing more, your morning, your miracle morning, lets you achieve more by becoming more. John Lee Dumas goes for a thirty-five minute power walk while listening to podcasts first thing in the morning. Ken Blanchard, I had an opportunity to have lunch with him. He's the author of The One Minute Manager and sixty other leadership books, runs a very successful large training company. At lunch he told me that every morning he gets up early and he rides on his exercise bike while reading some inspirational text. Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank entrepreneur, he shared in an interview that I saw that he rides an exercise bike also for forty-five minutes in the morning while watching the news. Dan Miller, great entrepreneur, career expert, told me, "I take advantage of the rich audio programs available, so then I fill forty-five minutes with physical exertion combined with mental input and expansion. I carefully protect that first hour...
In this episode, I share the #1 piece of time management advice I received from Mark Cuban.
What you’re going to learn:
Mark Cuban’s #1 productivity tip
How to facilitate efficient meetings (even when you’re NOT the facilitator!)
What Dustin Moskovitz’s (co-founder of Facebook) meeting schedule looks like at Asana (his new productivity company)
Key Quotes:
“Mornings are when we are cognitively at our best, so we should be doing our deep thinking work before noon.”
“The wrong people dominate meetings.”
“People will spend more time discussing the trivial items because they think they have an opinion on it and less time on the important items because they’re afraid to say something stupid.”
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Would you like to 10x your productivity and stop feeling so overworked and overwhelmed? Welcome to the extreme productivity podcast with New York Times best selling author and Inc. 500 entrepreneur Kevin Kruse. Kevin Kruse: Welcome, welcome, welcome. I am Kevin Kruse and I am sharing tips and advice from my new book, "15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management," where I interviewed over 200 highly successful people and boiled down their productivity habits so that you can 10x your productivity. The last episode, I gave you the 9 steps to cut your email processing time in half. Today, I'm going to share what Mark Cuban told me was his number one productivity tip. First, I want to send you a quick start action plan that includes the one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. All you need to do is send a text message to 44222 with just the word achieve. Head on over to the website productivity-podcast.com and put your email address in there if you'd rather get the free download that way. I cold emailed Mark Cuban asking for an interview, asking him to just tell me his number one secret to time management. Now a lot of people discount Mark Cuban and the other billionaires I reached out to as saying they have nothing to learn from them because they're billionaires. They got lots of servants, and maids, and butlers, and staff, or admins, or whatever. It's a different, they just can't relate. I actually think that is very limiting thinking because yes, of course, Mark Cuban and other people at his level have larger teams of people to get stuff done, but he also has a tremendous amount more than all the rest of us have to look after. I mean, he owns the Dallas Mavericks, he owns Landmark Theaters, he's a TV star co-hosting, investing on Shark Tank. He's written books, he's invested in and is guiding dozens of start-ups and tech companies. He's always being interviewed on TV, on the news programs, on the financial programs. He's a husband. He's a father with three young daughters. This guy has responsibilities and obligations and things to watch at a magnitude that are much greater than most of us can ever imagine. Yet, given all of that, he got back to me faster than any other person that I reached out to. I probably reached out to over 800 people. Almost 300 got back in touch with me, most of them within a day or two. Mark Cuban responded to me in 61 minutes. I was shocked. What is Mark Cubans advice? What's his number one piece of advice for time management and productivity? Well, in typical Cuban style, very direct, very short, kind of funny. He says, "Never take meetings unless someone is writing you a check. Never take meetings unless someone is writing you a check." What's very interesting about this advice is I talked to seven billionaires, most of them made some reference to the evils of meetings. Highly successful people live by the 1440 rule. There's 1,440 minutes in a day, make them all count. They know, more, because of the value of their...
In this 15-minute episode, I share my 321Zero Email System which is guaranteed to cut the time you spend on emails in half.
What you’re going to learn:
How International Power (a company in England) was able to reduce their total email traffic by 54%
Useful codes I use in my subject lines to indicate the action required for the recipient
How to bulk unsubscribe from all your email newsletters
Key Quotes:
“Ultra-productive people don’t check their email throughout the day.”
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Hey, you time management ninja, you. Welcome to the show. I'm Kevin Kruse, and I'm sharing tips and advice from my new book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. Now, last episode, I revealed Richard Branson's secret productivity tool, and today, you're going to get my 321Zero email system, so that you can get to inbox zero, and cut the time you spend on emails in half.
But first, I want to send you a cheat sheet, just for this show, just for email mastery. All you need to do is send a text message to 44222, send the word ACHIEVE, or head on over to the website, productivity-podcast.com, and you can instantly download the 321Zero email mastery system.
Now, let's begin. Imagine, if you could cut your email processing time in half. How much time would that save you? According to a survey, conducted by McKinsey Global Institute, the average office worker is spending 2.6 hours per day reading and answering emails, which is one third, 33% of a forty hour work week. It's probably why so many of us are working more than a forty hour work week these days.
What's worse is that smart phones have now tethered us to email, so we're checking it constantly: while we're driving, sitting with our family at the dinner table, even in the middle of the night. You've got to stop the madness, you need to reclaim all these hours in your week. Here are seven steps to master your email.
First, step number one. Unsubscribe from all those email newsletters that you get. I mean, do you really need to get emails daily from all those fashion websites, those flash deal of the day offers, or those buzz feed-y, everything's a click bait news headline that the article never matches up the headline that you clicked on? You can't be giving permission to all these strangers, all these companies to interrupt your day. They are getting in your inbox so that they can get into your mind. They make money when they interrupt you successfully.
So, here's what you do. Just search, go into your email inbox, and search on the word unsubscribe. You're going to get a list of all those email newsletters, are going to come up, and you can manually unsubscribe them, or the ones that you really don't want. Save yourself a lot of time, and instead, you can go to a website called unroll.me. All you need to do is, give it your email address, it'll analyze your inbox and give you an entire list of every single email newsletter that you subscribe to. You can unsubscribe with one click, or just tell it to roll it all into one weekly digest.
Last idea on those email newsletters, I don't even use my primary email address for any email newsletter. I subscribe to a lot, it's a good way to get information from the gurus out there, the consultants, the experts, the industry magazines. I set up a second gmail account that I just use for the junk mail. Keep all these email newsletters out of your primary inbox.
Step two, turn off all email notifications. Email is not intended to be an urgent form of communication. It's not supposed to be text messaging. These days, when we're getting anywhere from 100, to 250, to 500 emails a day, to have a little ding go off, or a little buzz on our phone, or a little square window pop up on our monitor every single time, is a sin. We need to be productive, which means we need to be focused. We need to shut off all of those push notifications, whether you're on they desktop or on your phone.
Today, we’re talking about Richard Branson’s secret productivity tool and why you need to be handwriting your notes instead of typing them into your computer or tablet. Shocking, I know.
What you’re going to learn:
The tool Richard Branson claims he could not have built the Virgin Group without
My favorite type of notebook
The scientific reason why taking notes by hand is better than typing them into your computer or digital device
Key Quotes:
“The pen is mightier than the keyboard.”
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Dang, I'm feeling productive. How about you? Welcome to the show. I'm Kevin Kruse and I'm sharing tips and advice from my new book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs. That's got to be the longest book title in history. In the last episode, we covered how George Bush, even while as a sitting president, was able to read 95 books a year. Today, we're talking about Richard Branson's secret productivity tool and why you need to be handwriting your notes instead of typing them into your computer or tablet. Shocking, I know.
Hey, first I want to send you a quick start action plan so you can 10X your productivity. All you need to do to get it is send a text message to 44-222 with the word "achieve" or go to the website productivity-podcast.com. Now, let's dive in.
It turns out that many, many of the greatest minds in history consider a notebook, a simple notebook, to be one of their prized possessions. Indeed, Richard Branson talks about this a lot. Obviously, Branson's the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, very colorful character. He said once that the little notebook in his back pocket is his prized possession. He said, "I could never have built the Virgin Group to the size it is without those few bits of paper." Billionaire Aristotle Onassis, he was a big shipping magnet. He used to always give advice that he called his Million Dollar Lesson. He said, "Always carry a notebook. Write everything down. That is a million dollar lesson that they don't teach you in business school."
Once you kind of know about this notebook secret, you're going to start hearing it everywhere you go. It's like when you buy a Honda Civic and then you see all the other Honda Civics on the road, it's the same kind of thing. I was listening just two days ago to an interview on the Mixergy Podcast with John Lee Dumas. Now, John Lee Dumas, of course, has his own podcast called Entrepreneur on Fire, but he was in the guest chair. He was getting interviewed. He was asked, "So if I called you at 5:30 in the morning, what would you be doing?" He said, "Well, I would be walking around the bay in San Diego, listening to podcasts, and you would see me with my notebook in my hand. I'd be jotting down ideas and takeaways and words of wisdom from the notebook." I'm paraphrasing there. Just two days ago, John Lee Dumas makes $3 million as a solopreneur and he brings up the fact that at 5:30 in the morning, going for his power walk, he's still got that notebook in his hand.
People always make fun of me because I'm carrying my little black notebook around. I go out to lunch with friends, it's there. Business meetings, it's there. It's always with me just because you never know when you're going to get an idea, you're going to meet someone, someone's going to say something, and you don't want to rely on your memory. You want to write it down.
The only time I break that rule is sometimes if I'm jogging outside or on the treadmill or something, I don't have the notebook on me, but I usually have my smartphone because I'm listening to a podcast or I'm pumping out some music. Sometimes I'll stop and I'll send myself an email, which in general, you don't want to do this as your normal practice, but if you have no other choice, then it's better to just send yourself an...
Today I’m going to talk about how President Bush read 95 books a year and how his productivity secret will enable you to leave work at a decent hour and enjoy your personal time stress free.
What you’re going to learn:
Why successful people always seem so calm and stress free (and their secret to achieving this)
How to leave the office at 5 PM, EVERYDAY
Key Quotes:
“There will always be more to do and more than can be done.”
“There will always be another crisis, another fire. Life is a marathon. Life needs to be balanced.”
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Hey there everybody. Kevin Kruse here and I'm sharing the surprising things ultra-productive people do differently. Based on my original survey research of thousands of working professionals and on my interviews with over 200 super high achievers. Now in the last episode I shared the nine step cure for procrastination and today I'm going to talk about how President Bush read 95 books a year and how his productivity secret will enable you to leave work at a decent hour and enjoy your personal time stress free. First remember you can get the quick start action plan that includes the one-page tool that millionaires use to schedule their day just by sending a text message. Send the word achieve A-C-H-I-E-V-E achieve to the number 44222 or go to the website productivity-podcast.com. Have you ever wondered how the world's most important people always seem so calm, stress-free, so fully present in the moment. In other words they are completely opposite of who I used to be when I was starting and running companies back when I was young and dumb in my 20's. Things go so bad. Business was going well but at a tremendous cost. I didn't know how to be productive. I would literally be jogging down the hallways, the hallways in my own building, racing back to my office to jump on a call that had just come in or to make the next meeting. That's how tight the schedule was. I was physically jogging through my own office. I can visually distinctly remember so many times when I would be driving to work or driving back from work or in to the office and I would have a sandwich in one hand and my mobile phone in the other and I'm steering with my knees. Not a good idea. Children do not try this at home. I used to go round and my constant state I always tell people I was fatigued, I was frazzled, I was so frustrated, I was totally F'd, the three F's. Worst of all and I bet you can relate, a lot of you out there can relate. I was on this emotional yo-yo between guilt and stress. If I was working late in the office I felt guilty that I wasn't home with my family. Then Sunday when I'm sitting on the floor with my toddler stacking blocks for hour after hour I'm jumping out of my skin inside stressing out that endless to do list. I got so much to do and here I am stacking blocks for 2 hours this morning. Guilt or stress. Stress or guilt. Yet so many of the super high achievers around me didn't have that going on at all. I started to talk to them, investigate, how do you have time to train for a marathon, to go golfing every weekend, to be reading books all the time, to sit across from me at a lunch meeting and be completely focused and mindful of me and the restaurant and the food and not even worrying about your smart phone or text messages or what was going on back in the office? This is an interesting story that caught my eye and it stayed with me. Back in 2008 Karl Rove, that republic political strategist, he wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal and Rover had been working for President George W. Bush and in this article Rove talks about a little competition between him and the President. This is what Rove described. He says, "It all started on New Year's Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year's resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who'd gotten out of the habit my goal was to read a book a week in 2006....
Today I’m going to give you the cure for procrastination.
What you’re going to learn:
Why you’re procrastinating
The 9 steps you can take, today, to overcome procrastination
Key Quotes:
“Plan to settle for good enough.”
“Take small actions and they will build upon each other.”
“I am worse off when I put it off.”
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Welcome back you high-achiever you. I'm Kevin Kruse and I'm sharing the truth bombs from my 200 plus interviews with ultra-productive people like Grant Cardone, John Lee Dumas, Neil Patel, James Altucher even Mark Cuban and so many others. Last week I shared why we must stamp out the evils of procrastination. I shared the 4 procrastination personalities. Which one are you by the way? The postponer, the perfectionist, the punisher, or the politician?
Today I'm going to give you the cure for procrastination. Listen up, take some notes, share out the wisdom on social media maybe, I'd appreciate that. First I want to send you a quick start action plan that includes and inforgraphic on procrastination and how to cure your procrastination. It's instant download just send a text message. Text the word "Achieve" to the number 44222 or go to the website productivity-podcast.com.
I don't want to procrastinate, I want to dive right into it. We need to cure our procrastination for so many reasons. Certainly to help us with just life maintenance like getting our car's oil changed on time. Getting our teeth cleaned every 6 months, and dental hygiene is important. I get most excited about sharing procrastination around our big hairy audacious goals.
I want you to finally write that book you've been thinking about. I want you to run that marathon you've been dreaming of. I want you to, whatever jump on Match.com and find the love of your life. Whatever big things that you've been putting off I want you to overcome your procrastination and take action.
Here's the 9 steps. First step is just to recognize it. What have you been procrastinating on lately? Are there certain things, tasks, activities that you always procrastinate? What are you weak spots? When do you fall prey to this problem?
The second step is to reflect. Why am I procrastinating? What is it about this thing? It is just because it's boring and you'd rather be doing something more fun or is it that you're afraid you are actually going to achieve it and that's going to change your life in some way. This is a challenge to your self-identity or a challenge to your relationship structure. Think about that a little bit.
Third, reflect am I over-estimating the unpleasantness involved. Most of procrastination is behavioral, they say about 60%. We think it's going to be more fun to put something off. My own research and others show we are happier when we procrastinate less. A lot of this is in our mind. Things tend to not be as painful or boring as we think they're going to be.
Going right along with that is step 4, which is just, know that when you take action on it your mood will automatically change for the better. A lot research on this and I've seen it myself. Sometimes I'm feeling the pressure to turn in a book manuscript and maybe I've got to do a rewrite and all the fun of the first draft is gone now I've just got to cut stuff out and look for grammar and typo problems. It sounds kind of boring I'd rather be off writing the next book. I start to do that negative self-talk.
Then once I dive in whether that's doing a second draft of the book or creating slides for a speech all of a sudden I start to have some fun with it. I'd come up with some new material or some new research. I just feel good about improving my work and it isn't ever as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Now step 5 this is a powerful one but it's kind of hard to explain. It's kind of tricky. It has to do with rebalancing or reframing your thoughts around pain and...
What you’re going to learn:
The 4 different causes of procrastination
How to identify your own personal procrastination personality
Key Quotes:
“Seize the future by seizing the present. Start procrastinating tomorrow.” – Zig Ziglar
“Nothing beats the timely pursuit of one’s intentions. It is the measure of success in life.” – Clarry Lay
“When we procrastinate, it interferes with our happiness and drains us of our energy.” – Kevin Kruse
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Hello, everybody. I am glad you made the time to join me. You didn't find the time, you didn't have the time. You made the time to join me. I'm Kevin Kruse and as you know I interviewed Mark Cuban and other billionaires, over a dozen Olympic athletes, and hundreds of successful entrepreneurs to uncover the real secrets to time management, which I'm sharing with you. Last week I explained why millionaires don't use to-do lists, and today we're talking about the four different causes of procrastination, and you'll discover your own procrastination personality. First, I want to send you a quick start action plan that includes the one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. All you need to do is text the word "Achieve" to 44-222, or just point your browser over to the website productivity-podcast.com.
Procrastination. Even the great struggle with it. Let's review some wise words. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich and bestselling success, self-development author of all time, he said, "Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday." Zig Ziglar once said, "Seize the future by seizing the present. Start procrastinating tomorrow." That's funny. Of course let's not forget my annoying cat Oscar, who says all the time to me, "Stop goofing off and come feed me now." It doesn't matter if he just ate. He says that to me all the time. Back on a serious note, professor Clarry Lay at York University, he specializes in the study of procrastination and he believes, he says, "Nothing beats the timely pursuit of one's intentions. It is the measure of success in life."
He believes the timely pursuit of one's intentions is the most important indicator of success. He says it's more important than general performance, prestige, a bigger predictor than your grades in school. All of those things are secondary to one's commitment to prompt action. Know what you want to do and take prompt action on it. Everyone procrastinates at some point. They say 20% of us are chronic procrastinators. We procrastinate so often that it's having a negative impact on our happiness and on our lives. It is an important thing because it's certainly, procrastination, puts off achievement of our big dreams, our big, hairy, audacious goals. Procrastination is the enemy of that novel you want to write or that marathon you want to run or the career change or the job change that you want.
We so often procrastinate health related things. Going to the gym or eating a healthier diet. If we can overcome procrastination on our health behaviors, well then we are going to end up with more energy and productivity just from that one change. In year 2015 I did a original research study over 4000 working professionals, looking at procrastination and other productivity habits. People who rarely procrastinate report high levels of not just productivity, which we would assume, but also higher levels of happiness and energy. When we procrastinate, it interferes with our happiness and drains us of our energy. To beat it, let's start by making sure we understand it. There're four major reasons why we procrastinate.
The first reason is behavioral. This is the most common reason. The behavioral reason, it's when we do something, or that we tend to pick something that's more pleasurable or less painful to avoid doing the hard or the painful or the...
Today, we’re going to talk about why high achievers and ultra productive people don’t use to do lists and what they use instead.
What you’re going to learn:
The truth about to-do lists and why they’re making you unproductive and stressed out
What millionaires and high achievers use instead of to-do lists
How to use the same tool to get your own goals accomplished on time
Key Quotes:
“Throw away your to do list. Toss it out the window, burn it, stomp on it, tear it into a million pieces and toss them into the wind like confetti.”
“You run the day or the day runs you.”
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Hey, hey, welcome everyone. I’m Kevin Kruse and I interviewed over 200 self-made millionaires and successful entrepreneurs—like the cofounders of Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Atlassian and also successful solopreneurs like Pat Flynn and John Lee Dumas all to discover their secrets to extreme productivity.
In the previous episode I gave you simple questions to zero in on your Most Important Task and talked about the power of proper priorities.
Today we’re talking about why high achievers ultra productive people don’t use to do lists!
But first, if you want to 10x your productivity grab your smartphone and text the word ACHIEVE to 44222 and I’ll send you The 1-Page Planning Tool That Millionaire’s Use To Schedule Their Day. Just text ACHIEVE to 44222 or you can visit the website productivity-podcast.com to download the 1-Page Planning Tool that Millionaire’s Use To Schedule Their Day and other bonuses.
Let me ask you this, do you really think back in the day Steve Jobs just kept a running task list in his pocket and would pull out that little piece of paper and ask himself several times a day, what's my next action? If you are not a Steve Jobs or an Apple fan, put in whoever your productivity superhero is, whether that's Bill Gates or Michael Dell or any of these kinds of guys. Do you think they're just running around with that long to do list picking things off throughout the day? Let's get out of business, do you think extreme athletes, professional athletes are working and running their life off a to do list? Does a quarterback say, "Wow, I got a big game on Sunday, let me wake-up and look at my to do list and get to it?" That's not how they work, that's not how they live. To-do lists should be called, nagging wish lists.
A whole bunch of tasks that you hope to accomplish, you think you're supposed to accomplish but you don't have a specific plan as to when you're going to get it all done. How many things on your current to-to list, be honest, have been there for days or even months. There was a time when I had some items on my list for more than a year, like you know, get the 2012 family photo album done. I think that was on the list for several years. Research was done in 2014 and was published in a guide, if you want to start googling around. The Busy Person's Guide to the Done List and they found that 41% of to do list items are never completed, 41% are never completed. 50% of the to do list items that are completed are completed within a day and many of those within an hour of it being written down. It's almost like, we write it on the to do list and then cross it off right away so we can feel productive. Here's the problem, to do lists are, it's a technology that's 120 years old.
The story goes that to do lists were invented by a guy names Ivy Lee. He was a consultant that was hire by Charles Schwabb who was running U.S steel at the time and Schwabb said, " Hey. I want my executives to get more stuff done, you know, to be better with their time." Ivy Lee said, " All right, here's the answer, at the beginning of the day, I want you all to take out a piece of paper and write down 6 things that you'd like to do and start working on the first item and then work on it until it's done and then move on to the second item and keep going through your list until it is time to...
Today we’re going to talk about how Briana Scurry and other Olympians win the day and how to focus on your MIT.
What you’re going to learn:
The MIT Principle (What you should be focused on and how to get it done)
What Briana Scurry and other Olympians do to win the day
How to break down your yearly goal into daily MITs
Key Quotes:
“About six months before an Olympics, I would relate all the decisions I made to the ultimate vision of winning gold. The simple question I would ask several times a day was, ‘Will this activity help me perform better and therefore help us win gold?’” – Briana Scurry
“I always start with the most important thing on my priority list. If you didn’t spend your week working on the most important thing, it was a week wasted.” – Randy Gage
“I work more on time alignment. Is this part of my mission?.” – Chris Brogan
“If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither one.” –Russian proverb
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” –Publius Syrus
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Welcome back to the Extreme Productivity podcast, I’m Kevin Kruse and I interviewed over 200 billionaires, self-made millionaires, successful entrepreneurs, and even Olympic athletes and straight A students to learn how THEY 10x their productivity.
In the previous episode we discussed how the number 1440 can change your life and I shared the advice of Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington. TODAY we’re talking about how Briana Scurry and other Olympians win the day.
But first, if you want to achieve your goals faster than ever before, just grab your smartphone and text the word ACHIEVE to 44222 and I’ll send you The 1-Page Planning Tool That Millionaire’s Use To Schedule Their Day. Just text ACHIEVE to 44222 or you can visit the website productivity-podcast.com to download the 1-Page Planning Tool that Millionaire’s Use To Schedule Their Day and other bonuses.
Do you remember the movie City Slickers? Hilarious. Got to watch it.
In one scene, an old cowboy Curly (played by Jack Palance) gives a secret to life to Mitch (played by Billy Crystal). Holding up his index finger, Curly explains that you need to figure out your one thing and stick to it.
But the “one thing” concept goes back a lot further than a Billy Crystal comedy. Consider this advice from the ages:
• “To do two things at once is to do neither.” –Publius Syrus • “If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither one.” –Russian proverb • Wise old Buddha once said, “Put down your freaking smartphone and focus would you?!”
We can take this wisdom and boil it down to a single principle.
The MIT Principle – The Most Important Task
Therese Macan, a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, conducted groundbreaking research into time management, productivity, and stress, discovering that the two most important keys are priorities and mechanics (i.e., the mechanics of implementing time management techniques and tactics).
Put simply, the most important things are to know what to focus on and how you are going to get it done. I call this always knowing your MIT: the most important task.
The key to your productivity all comes down to understanding what is most important to you—and what activity will provide the greatest leverage to getting there—right now.
Additionally, research that we’ve conducted at the Kruse Group in 2015 on over 4,000 working professionals indicates that having a daily MIT correlates to higher levels of happiness and energy.
Briana Scurry, who won two gold medals as the starting goalkeeper for the United States women’s soccer team in 1996 and 2004, tod me:
“About six months before an Olympics, I would relate all the decisions I made to the ultimate vision of winning gold. The simple question I would ask several times a day was, ‘Will this activity help me perform better and therefore help us win gold?’”
Randy Gage is author of nine books including the New York Times...
Today we’re going to talk about how the number 1440 can change your life, and I’m also going to share what Kevin Harrington (who is worth a mere 500 million) told me was the secret to his massive productivity and success.
What you’re going to learn:
The productivity secrets of self-made millionaires and high achievers (habits, hacks, time tricks)
What Kevin Harrington, (inventor of the infomercial and Shark Tank original co-host) told me was his #1 secret to extreme productivity
How successful people measure what their time is worth
Key Quotes:
“Our behaviors follow our beliefs.”
“Time never comes back.”
“Master your minutes to master your life.”
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Welcome everyone to the very first episode of the Extreme Productivity podcast. I'm Kevin Kruse and I've interviewed over 200 billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, and even Ivy League straight-A students to find out just what their secrets to extreme productivity are.
Today we're going to talk about how the number 1440 can change your life. I'm also going to share what Kevin Harrington, who's worth a mere $500 million, told me was the secret to his massive productivity and success. First, if you want to achieve your goals faster than every before, grab your smartphone and text the word 'achieve' to 44222 and I'll send you the 1 page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. Just text the word 'achieve' to 44222 or you can visit the website, productivity-podcast.com.
What are the productivity secretes of self made multi-millionaires and other super high achievers? You're probably interested in hearing about things to do. Habits, hacks, little time tricks, maybe a few apps to download, but the single most important thing when it comes to time and productivity isn't a tactic or even some trick, it's a shift in your mindset. Don't bail out on me just yet, this will get practical. Our behaviors follow our beliefs. Write this down, this is gospel: Our behaviors follow our beliefs. Listen, if I believe smoking cigarettes makes me look really cool and keeps me looking skinny and good in my black Armani suits, I just might be up to a pack a day at this point. But, if my belief, if I believe that cigarettes are nails in my coffin, they're little cancer sticks and they make me and my Armani suit stink, well, then I'm going to be less likely to take up the habit of smoking. Our behaviors follow our beliefs.
All of the highly successful people that I studied when I talked to them about time management, when I talked to them about productivity, the one thing they did all have in common is that they think about time differently. I would even say they experience time differently.
Kevin Harrington, he's best known as the inventor of the infomercial. He's one of the Shark Tanks original co-hosts, he had this to say, he told me, "Before I decide to take on a new project, I analyze it. How much of my time will this take and what is my financial upside potential? I create a dollar-per-minute analysis. Hopefully a million dollar per week upside."
That is crazy. He's looking for a million dollar per week upside. That catches our attention but that's not the important part of his statement. The important part is he's focusing on a dollar-per-minute analysis. He and ultra productive people really understand that time is our most valuable asset. It's just not lip service. Money, we can go dead broke and make it all back again. I've seen that with friends and family members over and over again. We can lose our health; we can get sick, we can get our health back again. We can even lose the loves of our live and find new love. I know that sounds cold but think about what percentage of people fall madly in love and get married and then they get divorced and a year or