Struggling To Be Productive? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions Every Day

There’s one way to measure personal productivity.

It’s measuring your rate of output per unit of input. To be fully productive, every hour you invest in a task should result in a 10x output of some kind (e.g., a project’s completion status has improved by 10%). You can only achieve productivity by focusing on what matters the most.

Ask yourself these three questions every day to dramatically increase your productivity.

“What is the biggest strategic objective that I’m working on that if I rallied fully behind it, would have the biggest positive impact on helping me achieve my goals?”

Sure, you have errands to run, people to call, and emails to reply to, but none of that matters.

Realize what’s important.?

Label your most important objective, and make progress on it every single day.

“What’s my ONE thing today?”

Until your ONE thing is done today, everything else is a distraction.

It’s your most important action item for today. Write it down. Schedule it.

Complete it before you do anything else.

“What are two more action items I can do today, that will push my most important projects and goals forward in a meaningful way?”

It’s hard to focus on more than three big-picture action items in a day. When you try, everything gets diluted.

Plan two more important action items that will push your goals and projects forward. Block a 90-minute focus session for each.

If you focus on everything, you focus on nothing, so focus on what matters the most.

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