MLP012: Boost Your Productivity with Tips from Productive Super Dad w/ Timo Kiander
Description
And nothing ever seems to get done.
Your task list is huge, I am sure. Especially if you are running your own blog or business.
There are boat loads of productivity tips out there, so it is hard to know where to start!
But luckily for us, there is the Productive Super Dad to save the day!
Enter Productive Super Dad
Imagine you are trying to start your own blog and business, but you also have a full-time job, and a young son.
For many of you this is may be your reality!
So coping with all of the tasks you need to do each day is tough. Very tough. Almost impossible!
That is why I got Timo Kiander, aka Productive Super Dad on the podcast to find out how he does it.
* Special thanks to Lorraine Reguly who introduced me to Timo, and also recently interviewed him on her blog.
What I learnt from a very productive dad…
In this podcast with Timo we chatted about a lot of very simple and actionable tips you can use each day to increase your productivity.
Productivity sounds like a difficult thing. But actually it is not, if you know where to start.
So let’s take a look at the tips we cover:
1. Don’t get bogged down in negativity and complaints
This mindset is very time consuming and is the opposite of what you need to get productive and start a business or blog.
Either start solving the problems that are holding you back, or leave them behind.
2. Don’t let the small things overtake the more important ones
You need to decide each day what are the most important tasks you want to accomplish to further your small business.
Keep those in mind at all times (or on a list) and do not let yourself be distracted by smaller, less important tasks.
3. You will never really thrive if you do not challenge yourself
Indirectly related to productivity, is the idea of stretching your comfort zone in order to grow.
If you never do anything that you can’t or won’t normally do, and things that make you uncomfortable, you will forever be stuck where you are.
4. Don’t leave tasks unfinished
Similar to the small vs big tasks idea, is the idea of always completing tasks as soon as possible.
Get things off your list whenever you have control over them. It does not help to do 80% of a task and then leave it for a week
5. Not preparing your tasks
This is absolutely key to getting something done. You need to understand in detail what exactly the task is.
If you do not, you need to do some research first to understand the steps. Perhaps it is actually 8 smaller tasks in one?
So always consider planning a little first, before you start the task or project.
6. Not documenting and making checklists
I have heard this from a few super productive people. Write down in point form the things you do often, that are repeatable and possibly time consuming.
This then saves you from making mistakes each time you do that task, and enables you to consider outsourcing or giving it to your team (if you are so lucky)
7. Do not get distracted – The factors to consider
Distractions can take many forms, so you need to be aware what they are in order to avoid them.
Work in the right place, at the right time, and do the right things first. Sounds simple I know, but attack each one separately, and create the perfect working mindset.
That was just a summary
The above is just a summary of the most important and actionable tips I took away from my chat with Timo.
If you want to really learn more, I recommend having a listen to the podcast or read the transcript.
Read the Transcript
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Or read it below…
Welcome to the podcast Timo. Thanks for joining me today.Timo:
Great to be here. Thanks for having me.Ashley:
It’s nice to meet you after I had a nice recommendation from a friend of mine Loraine whose been interviewing you recently. You did a blog with her as well recently I saw.Timo:
Yeah, yeah that was like, I guess she published that interview just a couple of days ago so it’s a very fresh one and of course it was very nice to be interviewed.
She was actually able to ask me some questions that some other people haven’t asked before, so it was really nice to be at that interview before.
And of course it’s very nice to be here as well.
Ashley:
Yeah, you get to do lots of different ones, written interviews, spoken interviews, video interviews.Timo:
Yeah, yeah and I am really open with every interview request, so if anyone asks I am very happy to do that, and I’m also doing some interviewing myself actually, I am re-launching my podcast ,productive super dad podcast and later on
early next month I am actually starting a Finnish productivity blog and I am also podcasting in Finnish language as well.Ashley:
Oh! Yeah! You’re a busy man ! That’s why I got you on the show you’re all about
productivity and just want to do a quick rundown of how you got there or what you’re up to at the moment?Timo:
Yes so basically if I tell a little bit about myself first , My name is Tim Kiander and I’m the person behind a productivity blog called Productive Super Dad and it’s basically a productivity blog especially care towards online entrepreneurs. So it started out as a regular self improvement blog, like three years ago and I eventually started writing about our management because that’s basically something I’m very passionate about.
And then last year I wrote a book about online businesses especially for those people who are working from nine to five and they are trying to build their own businesses on the side and then I realized that perhaps this is the very same topic that they should be focusing on my blog especially the audience would be those people who are online entrepreneurs or those who are wanting to become online entrepreneurs and especially trying to share, you know, different productivity techniques and our management tips for those people so…That’s basically what my blog is all about and like I said that the management itself is something that I’m very passionate about, and I have been learning about it, reading about, and doing, you know, different experiments you know and a lot of stuff you know, like in since 2007 so it’s really something that I want to learn more about, and I don’t know why..productivity is my thing.
It’s always very fascinating to understand why certain people are interested in certain topics but productivity is really my thing and that’s what I want to learn more about. Teach that stuff to my audience. So that’s basically, that’s basically what I’m doing right now. This is my background story.Ashley:
OK, we were just discussing before we got started recording that you’re also starting your business and you also had this wish before you got laid off as well, to cross over into starting an online business which is what many of us do. You kind of have this, you’re sitting there in your office you’re hating every minute of it usually I’d say that or the other thing like getting laid of one or the other but ,yeah, I also was not happy last year and I actually had a contracting position and it ended anyway.
So for me it was not so much that I wasn’t expecting, but I was already really really not happy and I think that’s really great. So you found then a niche where, or you’re still discovering it but, basically helping people in a similar position to become, because
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