5 steps to maximizing your productive sweet spot
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Steps to Maximize Your
Productive Sweet Spot
Steps to Maximize Your
Productive Sweet Spot
Are you naturally
a morning
person? Or are
you a night owl who comes alive
at midnight and
works well into
the evening?
While there are
many benefits to
rising early, the
real key is to find
when you are the
most productive and use that time
to the fullest.
Here are 5 steps for getting started:
Identify your ideal work environment.
Some people work
well in a noisy
coffee shop with a
lot of noise
around. Others
prefer a quiet, or
perhaps even
silent, atmosphere.
Spend as much
time as possible
in your ideal work
environment
during your most
productive time of day.
Embrace the“80/20 Rule.”
You need to focus
on the most
important tasks during your peak
times. The bulk of
your success
comes from only a
handful of the
tasks you do.
One of the best
ways to do this is to
follow the 80/20
principle: You get
80 percent of your
results from 20
percent of your
efforts.
Delegate, eliminate & learn to say “no.”
Hiring help can
free you up to
focus on “sweet
spot” activities—
the tasks that
energize you and
that no one else
can do quite like
you.
There may be
some tasks you
can’t delegate.
Determine whether
or not that task
really needs to be
done. If not, then
eliminate it.
Say no when a
request is made or
an “opportunity” is
presented to you
that doesn’t fit with
what you know is
best for you.
Focus onone thing.
Determine the
“one thing” that is
your most
important business-
related activity.
This should be the
primary focus of your workday.
The One Thing by
Gary Keller and Jay
Papasan is based
on the premise that
your best results
come from a
consistent effort on a single activity.
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Take back yourwork time.
If you’re still
working a day
job, your boss might define
your priority
tasks for you.
Try to approach
your boss with a
detailed plan regarding your
most important tasks.
If you explain how
spending time on
these tasks can
actually improve the
company’s bottom
line, you may be
given a little more
freedom to set your
own priorities.
Let’s get started!
Here is a simple action
plan for maximizing your
productive “sweet spot.”
Action PlanIdentify your periods of
peak productivity. 1
Action PlanIdentify your periods of
peak productivity.
Spend a week writing down the
times of day when you feel most
energized and productive.
1
Action PlanIdentify your
“one thing.” 2
Action PlanIdentify your
“one thing.”
Examine your business closely to
determine the #1 activity that
produces the biggest results.
2
Action PlanCreate a schedule
around that one thing. 3
Action PlanCreate a schedule
around that one thing.
Focus on completing the most important
thing during your ideal work time, when
you’re at a peak level of energy.
3
Action PlanStart the day with an
important question. 4
Action PlanStart the day with an
important question.
Ask yourself, “What’s the one thing
I need to do today to consider this
day to be a success?”
4
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