{"id":42560,"date":"2016-02-02T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/?p=42560"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:26:12","slug":"course-cheat-sheet-productive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/course-cheat-sheet-productive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Class: How to achieve more &#8211; with UJ Ramdas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just solve this whole productivity problem, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we had in mind when we asked UJ Ramdas to join us for a special live event for Mixergy Premium members. Because so many of you have told us that productivity is something you really struggle with.<\/p>\n<p>UJ created the popular \u201c5-Minute Journal\u201d that guys like Tim Ferriss use. And now his new \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.productivityplanner.com\/\">Productivity Planner<\/a>\u201d is hot off the press. To create the planner, UJ and his cofounder studied the most powerful productivity hacks used by successful people throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>So we invited him to Mixergy to talk about those hacks, and how to use those them to get. stuff. done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, [my cofounder] Alex and I had the same issue,\u201d says UJ. \u201cHere we were, we&#8217;re running two separate businesses. We&#8217;re not as productive as we want to be. <strong>It sucks to be busy all day and to lay at night thinking, \u2018I&#8217;ve been busy all day. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve been lounging on a beach, but I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve actually accomplished anything.<\/strong>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the solution came from a story about Charles Schwab, who needed to increase employee productivity. Schwab paid an advisor the equivalent of $350k for this productivity advice:<\/p>\n<p><em>Step one: Write down exactly five things you want to accomplish tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Step two: Order them from most to least important.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Step three: Start at the very top. Do not work on number two until you finish number one. Do not work on number three until you finish number two. And so on&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t get to number five,\u201d says UJ. \u201c<strong>What matters is you&#8217;re spending your time intelligently working on the thing that&#8217;s going to move the needle the most.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s just the first part of the solution. <strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/courses\/productive-day\/\">this recording of the event with UJ<\/a>, you\u2019ll discover:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to choose and rank your five daily tasks so that you get the IMPORTANT stuff done (the stuff that moves the needle)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Feel like getting started is the hardest part? UJ shows you how to ease into big projects and get the wheels in motion&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>TWO things you must do THE DAY BEFORE so you can set yourself up for a productive tomorrow&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>How to deal with Shiny Object Syndrome: the emails, Facebook updates, Reddit posts, and other distractions that hijack your day&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just solve this whole productivity problem, shall we? That\u2019s what we had in mind when we asked UJ Ramdas to join us for a special live event for Mixergy Premium members. Because so many of you have told us that productivity is something you really struggle with. 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