Guidelines my notes on Darren Hardy's seminar called Insane Productivity. Darren Hardy is really a speaker, author and publisher of Success Magazine. This presentation was handed at a Trans America conference.
In the 1930's Andrew Carnage commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview people like Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, King Gillette, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, William Wrigley, John D Rockefeller, and Harvey Firestone. Hill became the publisher of Success magazine. In 2007 Darren Hardy became the publisher of Success and surely got to interview people like Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Tony Hawk, Steve Jobs, Harrison Ford, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. You will find 4 categories of people if you made 4 boxes with the vertical axis being Results and the Horizontal being Time and Effort you would get: Low Results-Low Effort that is the Unengaged, Low Results-High Effort may be the Over Motivated Underachiever, High Results-High Effort may be the Over Whelmed Overachiever and High Results-Low Effort may be the Super Achiever. Distractions are what is in the manner of being a Super Achiever. Especially in modern times the top thing you have to know is to manage your attention. We have to have the ability to scale our skills at the exact same rate that individuals are scaling progress within our society. We have to learn how to weed out unneeded solicitations on our time. It's not what Super Achiever's do that produces them successful. It's what they do not do. You've to master saying “no”. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “For each and every 100 great opportunities which can be brought in my experience, I say no 99 times”. Steve Jobs said, “Deciding what not to complete is as important as deciding what things to do”. It doesn't help to complete something efficiently that individuals should not need been doing at all. We have to be great at a couple of things rather than average at many. We have to “give up” on certain things to produce room for time for you to be great at a few things. Some items on Hardy's “give up” list were television, news, watching sports, music, body building, and mechanics. Take that time for you to master the skills you want. You will find vital few functions, vital few priorities, vital few metrics and vital few improvements. The vital few functions are those items that matter the most for your career. There may be activities that have lots of steps but just a few of the steps are vital that need your specific great skill. Leave the others to the team to complete. Focus on things that make the money. In real estate he dedicated to prospecting and negotiating the sale though there are many steps which can be needed as part of the process. Find out what your 3 vital functions are and spend 90% of your time on that and either delegate or discontinue the rest. What's the one activity that you excel that a lot of impacts your success. A function can be an activity that you have do. A priority would be the over-arching goal. Focus on only 3 strategic priorities. We're distracted once every 3 minutes but it requires us 11 minutes to return to a state of concentration. There is no true multi-tasking. What you are really doing is switching back and forth from multiple tasks. This has actually be shown to decrease your intelligence. Don't mistake activity for productivity. You can't be Concentra tingly productive for a lot more than 90 minutes at a time. You've to isolate yourself from distractions, you need to utilize a countdown clock and then you have to recover. The vital metrics would be the 3 goals you need to attain to complete your objective. Only focus on those 3 goals. What're the 2 or 3 things needed to complete those goals? Then track those tasks on an everyday basis. We have to set our “Personal Development Set Point” higher. This is our standard for such things as health, money, and relationships. For things to improve and improve you need to change and improve. Learn less and study more. What's your #1 goal and what is the #1 skill necessary to accomplish that goal? Once a fraction he targets that skill by reading 5 books, hearing 3 CDs or DVDs and attending 1 seminar. Every day he reads for 30 minutes and while his driving, walking or exercising he listens to audiobooks for 30 minutes. Of each and every dollar your take advantage 10% to simply help others and 10% to simply help yourself. You've to don't succeed. You can't forget of failure. Note, I am unsure what the next “5” is in the formula.
Hardy is a good speaker. He provides you with the data he promises. Many speakers just offer you one teaser after another to stop you listening but there is never any payoff. Hardy provides you with the data he promises in a regular manner with a mode that is light and engaging. He provides personal stories but he doesn't drag them on or get side-tracked. I would recommend him for seminars and speaking engagements click here.
