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Welcome back to Stand Out Be You podcast! We’re back from summer vacation, and we’re psyched to bring you more tips and tricks from Tequila and her guests to help you truly be yourself in life and business.
Hopefully, you’ve had a successful and productive past few months…but if you’re still trying to decide how to reach the goals you’re striving for, this episode is just for you! On this one-on-one episode of the podcast, Tequila talks about how to streamline your productivity to strengthen your business, giving you more time for the important things in life—like traveling, spending more time with family, and getting out of your comfort zone.
Being able to be proactive and be productive in your personal and professional life is going to help you across the entire board.
If you’ve followed Stand Out Be You podcast in the past, you know Tequila is always trying to create bigger and better tools to help you increase your productivity. Maybe you’ve already tapped into the support system of our Faces of Collaboration group on Facebook, or maybe you’ve downloaded the Best Year Planner tool we’ve talked about in past episodes.
Well today, Tequila’s bringing you the first episode in a mini-series that tackles productivity: tips and advice, the most common struggles, and what works and what doesn’t. This series is designed to help you maximize your productivity and get more done, including how to create a consistent income and develop a system around it. Check it out to hear what’s coming up, from time management tips to creating lasting productivity habits!
Let’s be honest: all of us could stand to be a little more productive in life! We’re all on a mission to improve ourselves in business and life, so come get the support you need to keep going! If you haven’t already joined us in the Faces of Collaboration group on Facebook, you’re missing out on helpful webinars, collaboration with other business-minded adults, and insights from Tequila and past guests.
Plus, don’t forget to subscribe to get the next episodes of our productivity series, where you’ll hear more about effective tools, how to plan your time and more!
We talked about a lot of great productivity resources on this episode of the podcast, so check them out below!
For Personal Organization: Wunderlist
For Personal and Business Organization: Try the Trello board I put together for you that goes with this series!
An example pomodoro timer
Hello and welcome. In this particular series, we’re going to talk about effective ways to be productive and getting things done.
So, first and foremost, what I want to do is we are going to talk about the premise of this productivity series and that is – we’re going to show you the importance of planning and how planning contributes to getting things done and making your every day of your life more worthwhile.
So, whether you're trying to be more productive in your personal life, which actually creates a domino effect in all other parts of your life including your career and business. If you are trying to run one without the other then it will cut down on your being productive across the board.
So, what I want to do right now is just talk about the overview of what's inside this series so you know exactly to expect; and when you know what to expect, it’s going to be a lot easier in terms of getting things done.
So, first and foremost, this is obviously the introduction. And the episode after this – Episode #2 – we’re going to talk about the Productivity Mind Map and that mind map is going to break things down for you so that it’s going to be a lot easier for you to understand and for the implementation part.
And then of course, episode #3, we’re going to talk about defining your priorities by utilizing a time management matrix. Now, believe it or not, time management actually intertwines into productivity. So, organizing your time, prioritizing it, which I’ll talk about in just a minute will allow you to simplify everything.
And of course, in episode #4, we’re going to talk about how to schedule and create your own To-Do list and that will allow you to really prioritize and systemize everything so that you can complete projects easier. So, rather than trying to complete the whole project, you can break them up into baby steps and make it more applicable.
And that brings us to Episode #5, and we’re going to talk about the 80/20 rule, which will allow you to spend 20% of your time and receive 80% of the results. And I’ll show you exactly how that works in that particular video.
And of course, in Episode #6, we’re going to talk about productivity tools that we have tested after time and figured out what works and what hasn't so you get to find out what works and why it works. And we’ll show you the tools in action and how to embed them into your life and into your systems.
And that brings us to Episode #7 – is (Update) Trello. It’s one of the tools that we will be using. Don’t worry. It is free. And we’ll walk you through step-by-step on how to use that effectively.
And of course, in Episode #8, we’re going to talk about Evernote, which is a free tool for creating notes. And we’ll show you how to organize and how to really effectively use that in application to productivity.
And of course, last but not least, we have Episode #9, which is Productivity Habits. We want to make sure that before you leave the end of this video course, that you have the right habits and you can implement them into your life so that they become part of your life.
And of course, last but not least, we have tools that you're going to need to apply what you have learned in this series and that is a diary or journal. So, whether you have a paper or pencil diary – a physical one; or you have a digital one such as your iPhone or your smartphone or even your computer, you definitely want to keep track and document everything that you do. And then Number 2, you're going to need to have access to a calendar regardless of that being a paper calendar or a calendar like Google Calendar that is on your phone. And then, of course, you have to have a checklist, Trello (which is a tool), and Evernote, which is a tool as well. And in addition, to add, we are going to be using a Time Management Timer tool called the Pomodoro Timer. And you'll see exactly why that helps you get things done a lot faster.
With that said, let's move onto Episode Part #2 and talk about the Productivity Mind Map.
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