Energy and Focus

Do you misplace things all the time? Do you have truoble finding what you need when you need it? You may benefit by having some strategies that help you stop losing things. In this episode, that is exactly what you will learn!

What do you do to celebrate the things you acomplish? What are your reasons for doing what you need to get done? How can rewards and motivations keep you aware and pushing forward?

Try waking up at 4:00am or 5:00am tomorrow and see what happens. Here are some tips of how you can actually make that happen.

Who Not How is a concept that comes from Strategic Coach and Dr Benjamin Hardy's book of the same name. In this episode, you will hear an overview of the concept and see how it can help you in your thinking and execution.

What is something you can do every day so you can get to the productive state?    Daily Flow — Morning   Check calendar Note today’s appointments/locations - check in with people to confirm? Note travel time - how long does it actually take to get to these places? Meals - what am I going to eat? 60-90 minutes of clarifying and organizing - do I have this? Rest/recharge time Planed time to go to sleep   Review Next Actions Lists Put your eyes across your options for when you go to do work Pull out any critical action steps “You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing.”    Review Waiting For Lists Anyone you need to ping today?   Mindsweep Anything pop    Ins to zero Clear out your inboxes (task manager, paper, email, slack, etc)    Daily Flow — Evening   Check calendar What actually happened today? What’s happening tomorrow? Anything to communicate with spouse, family, friends, coworkers?   Mindsweep Anything that might keep you awake tonight? What has your attention the most? 

In this episode, I share a collection of a few principles that serve as the foundation to my productivity. Steal them. Improve them. Add to them. 

Part two of a conversation about your productivity tools. Here is a link to the mindmap I use to visualize the tools I use: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3vx81sd2l3xa37/Gold%20Standard%20Productivity%20Tools.pdf?dl=1

How often should you look at your tools and decide if they are working for you or not? You will learn how to evaluate your tools and make decisions on whether to keep what you are using or find something new.    Here is a link to the productivity tool mindmap I use to visualize this process: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3vx81sd2l3xa37/Gold%20Standard%20Productivity%20Tools.pdf?dl=1

What would it look like to wake up feeling rested and grateful?  Is there an opportunity for you to rethink how you set your alarm and how you want to wake up each morning?   Emerson SmartSet Alarm Clock Radio https://amzn.to/3T8zxR8 (affiliate link) 

What might happen to your attention and focus if you turned every notification off on your phone, computer, and tablet? 

Ever wonder how you can break a bad habit? There are things that you may be doing that you want to stop doing -- but how? In this episode, learn the thinking process of how you can create new, healthy habits to replace the bad ones. 

Here are a few thoughts on the future of text messaging as it relates to productivity. I created this list in 2021 and thought it would be fun to share these ideas here — to see what happens in the years ahead. 

Sometimes we can set things up that are not convenient at all yet allow us to be more productive. I call it "purposeful inconvenience." Maybe there are some walls you need to put up to allow your productivity to soar.  

Great question from Matt Noss about thinking about work when you're "off" at home. If you have a question you want answered on the podcast, visit joshmitch.com and click on the microphone button!

When you have margin in your life, you can lead with greater confidence and focus. In this episode, Eric Peoples teaches on how to create more margin and what is at stake. You can find the Eric Peoples Leadership Podcast on Apple and Spotify by searching for his name. 

If you give yourself a picture that a weekly review will be hard, it will be. What can you do to make it easy? Learn how to approach your weekly refresh with a new perspective.

Drain doesn't have to wreak havoc on your entire life and productivity system. Learn how to take what is frustrating you and how to move forward.

Checking the box is what we do when we cross things off our list in a quick, disengaged manner. In this episode, Josh Mitchell answers Kayla's question about how to approach a meaningful agreement without inappropriate pressure. 

We must keep materials to help us finish projects. In this episode, you will about project support materials and where they go. 

Here are some principles and ideas for how to arrange your desk. The key is to get to what David Allen calls "all but REDS" Reference, Equipment, Decoration, and Supplies. If you have a question, head over to https://joshmitch.com/ and record a question that I can answer on an upcoming episode!