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Point #4 : What frustrates you, stresses you or just makes you ANGRY?!!???

What is going on in your life that frustrates you, stresses you out or just makes you ANGRY?!!???

Let’s fix that in today’s Productivity Point #4.

1) Perspective. PRECIOUS LITTLE of what we do in this world really matters! Things we fretted about and stressed about 5 years ago that were so critical… do you even remember? Does anyone at work remember? Did they matter? 95%+++ the answer is NO! So, learn from the past or repeat it. Stop stressing!

2) Control: Get control over those things and people that stress you out. How? Simple. Talk to them if it’s a person and refuse to accept it if it’s a ‘thing’. Talk to a overly demanding boss. “Boss-unit… we need to talk. No sir / sirette… we need to talk about this. I’m not a machine and I know you don’t intend to treat me as one. Yet that is how I feel. I want to do an awesome job for you and the organization yet feel entirely discounted here and under appreciated. I have a list of 3 things that can fix it and we all can get more done if you are willing to talk to me about it…” Put it in your own words but ASK, TALK, SHARE! We get SOME of what we ask for in life and precious little of what we do NOT ask for.

Control also comes from refusing to accept what is unfair. “Thank you but I’m overloaded at present. Let me tell you who is not. XYZ over there is doing a fraction of what I’m doing. Please delegate it to him / her.” Hey… if it only works 40% of the time, you still win. But don’t try… don’t get. (FYI: If you are NOT over burdened, this can and often will  backfire! Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Even if 100 people hate you, 6 billion don’t even know you yet!

3) Change oil on our attitude. Just like a car needs the oil changed every so often, we ALL need an attitude change every so often. I get stressed out when i’m going flat out and feel I’m doing more than what I promised for clients and it’s not appreciated. I get a bit nuts when I do so much for work and at home i’m asked to do more. It’s not the bride’s fault of the kids if I blow up. It’s my attitude needing an oil change. Taking time to pray and thank God for what I have been blessed with. Hey… I prayed for years for a family and now that I have them, I forget how blessed I am. I ask for more business and when I get it, I complain? What an idiot! Just reflecting helps put things in perspective.

4) Recharge. Sleep works wonders. Block out 8 hours and EVERYTHING can change. Take a long, long walk. Not with a phone! Just you, God and the great outdoors. Sit alone and mediate and the 1000 things going right in your life. (heart pumping? breathing? eyes still see? Smile at 50 people you see at the mall and I’ll bet at least ONE will smile back. Take that as a compliment. Start feeling good about YOU. Prayer helps me a lot too.

5) Remember. Tomorrow is another day and a day can change everything. Love can walk into your life. Business opportunities can present themselves. New clients can show up. The boss can be in his / her first good mood of this decade. It DOES happen. And it will happen to you.

Stop stressing and stop getting upset!  Life is too short not to enjoy it.

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Point #3: Want to lose the frustration with work, get promoted and make more money? Simple, PRIORITIZE!

If you allow every phone call, email or ‘knock on your door’ to set your priorities in life, you relegate yourself to a life of frustration, a mediocre career and a very low income. Is that what you want? Sorry… IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?!!!! If the answer is ‘NO’!, then start prioritizing. Realize you cannot ‘do it all’ so you must do ‘What is important’. You CANNOT do what is important if you are trying to do EVERYTHING. Focus is not a little of this, a little of that. Focus is… FOCUS. Do the 1, 2 or 3 things TODAY which impress your boss, get more done and leave you satisfied at the end of the day.

Most people today are fools at best. They waste the bulk of their day texting ‘friends’ and colleagues. Like angry birds, they let every vibration in their pocket and bleep from their computer screen dictate their day. What a waste of a life. Pathetic. Time to take CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! Prioritize!

Download the form from our Website: http:www.AsiaProductivityGuru.com/PrioritySheet  Note the form gives you 30 spaces for your projects you have to complete in about the next month. You may have more or fewer. 30 is just the average. List your projects as they come to your mind.

Next, prioritize your projects ABCDE as follows: 

A=All important: What you were hired to do or if you own your business, the REASON you got into the business.

B=Basic Business work. Work says it all.

C=Clerical, administrative or repetitive.

D=is work you have, could or should be Delegating.

E=Eliminate! No one is talking about this and yet it is key to our success today. We can’t keep adding more and more to our plates. Eliminate things that are low return, outdated, outmoded, unprofitable or irrelevant.

Next, put numbers (#) next to your As, Bs and Cs to prioritize your A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, etc. Congratulations! You have just set your priorities for the next month.

The INT is for the Initials of the person who can benefit most from the Delegation.

Next to this is the deadline for the project. Deadlines do NOT change priorities or importance. They DO change how much work you have to do TODAY or possibly, TONIGHT and TOMORROW MORNING. Better planning and prioritizing in advance means fewer late nights, long weekends and early mornings.

Finally, estimate the number of hours each job will take. At first you’ll be pretty bad at this. As you do it more often, you’ll get better and better until you are pretty accurate as to how many hours you have to complete projects. Within a few months, you can be in AWESOME control of your life and your time.

Question: Do you deserve to be in control of your time and your life? If the answer is YES? Then PRIORITIZE!

Podolinsky’s Productivity Point #3: Prioritize Your Work to Get More Done. Other ways to be more successful in life and hundreds of productivity tips, tools and techniques are available in our new McGraw Hill book, “Productivity: Winning In Life”.

Email us for bulk orders of the book, “Productivity: Winning In Life”. Also, life changing, group motivating speeches, seminars and workshops delivered personally by Michael Podolinsky CSP (Singapore’s FIRST Certified Speaking Professional)

More coming in our weekly Productivity Points. Productivity Point #4 is Putting Your Passions to Work.

Point #2: Get Home on Time and Not Work Late!

Want to get home on time and not work late?  You CAN and you SHOULD! It’s much more productive. Here’s why:

Industrialist Henry Ford changed the face of the world with the assembly line and with the first true productivity studies. He found a 40 hour work week was the most efficient. He lobbied the US Congress to make the 40 hour work week a norm. This was not pure love for the worker. It made bottom-line sense. He got the MOST from workers when they worked a 40 hour work week. Productivity was bi-product and profit was the motive!

Recent productivity surveys and studies have proven even more radical changes are needed in working hours.  If you have a creative job, a 35 hour work week is your maximum. Why? Your brain needs time to ‘relax’ and ‘think’ to engage your limbic system and subconscious mind, the source of all creativity. Day dreaming and staring out the window for 10 to 20 minutes is a productive use of our time and life.

Productivity thoughts: 

• What if you said ‘no’ to people who waste your time?
• What if you did it right the first time so there was no need to ‘rework’ of ‘fix bugs’
• What if you could not be ‘found’ for half your day and worked in seclusion, away from interruptions? How much more could you accomplish?
• What if turned your phone ‘off’ for 90 minutes and focused on your A1 project?
• How would you feel if you left work on time and instead invested more time with your children, spouse, parents, friends or yourself?
• How would you feel if you got a full 7 or 8 hours of sleep and returned to work rested? Would you get more done?
• What if you valued yourself and your family as much as you did your job? How would THEY feel? How would YOU feel? Would you return to work feeling like a loser or a winner?!
• If you returned to work as a winner, would you do more or less?

“But Michael… how can I leave on time? I have so much to do!” Ha! The longer you work, the more tired you become and the slower you work. The slower you work, the longer it takes to get the work done and the less you do.

Face it, you will NEVER, EVER get it ALL done. IMPOSSIBLE. So, do the most important things quickly, finish your day and go home. The rest, recreation, relaxation and sleep will do you good and you will ultimately get more done. STUDIES PROVE THIS! (The studies are listed in the book.)

Podolinsky’s Productivity Point #2: Work 40 hours or less a week to get MORE done. Other ways to get more done and hundreds of tips, tools and techniques are available in our new McGraw Hill book, “Productivity: Winning In Life”.

Email us for bulk orders of the book, “Productivity: Winning In Life”. Also, speeches, seminars and workshops delivered personally by Michael Podolinsky CSP (Singapore’s FIRST Certified Speaking Professional)

More coming in our weekly Productivity Points. Productivity Point #3 is Prioritize Your Work to Get More Done.