In the coming weeks I am going to unpack my approach to Productivity and share with you 7 keys to Living a Productive Life. My goal is to introduce you to my book (The Productive Life), give you some insights if you have not had a chance to read it yet, and also give those who have read it a chance to review what they have learnt and add some fresh insights.

You may be wondering what I mean by a Productive Life. Let me start by saying what I DON’T mean and then describe what I DO mean:

I am NOT talking about becoming a Work-a-holic. I have been there and it made me nearly lose my marriage and lose touch with my kids. Unless we put boundaries around our lives and make sure that one area, like work, does not become the most important area to the detriment of other areas, we will find ourselves in deep, deep trouble. I also nearly allowed a passion for birdwatching to become an obsession and found that I needed to put boundaries around that area of my life so it did not negatively affect other areas. I am also NOT talking about becoming a Slacker who does not care about getting things done in the workplace – or any other area of their life. Neither being a Work-a-holic nor a Slacker are healthy ways of living.

So, what do I mean by living a productive life? In the chapter entitled: Understanding Productivity, I refer to being on top of every area of your life by making sure that you put significant amounts of time, energy and attention into everything you do in every area of your life. This will mean different things for each area of your life, but until you have the mindset of excellence and invest effort in every area of your life you will not get the most out of life nor have the kind of impact that deep down you want to make on this world.

I wrote the book to provide a framework that will enable you to live your best life. Here is what you will be able to do once you have worked through the 7 Keys to Living a Productive Life and have applied the insights to your life using the workbook style of my writing:

(1) Live Your Mission – you will learn how to discover your mission in life, how to live it through each of the roles you play in life, how to set and achieve goals for each of your roles, how to use a weekly planner to track activities you schedule and how to adopt the personal time management secrets that I have learnt in life.

(2) Manage Your Actions – you will learn how to keep track of every commitment you make in life, how to keep everything out of your head, how to decide what needs to be done, how to actually get things done and how to do a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly review of your system.

(3) Build Your Habits – you will learn how habits are critical to achieving goals, how to build good habits and break bad habits, how to stack habits on top of each other to ensure they get done without a million alarms going off during your day, how to create goals for each habit, how to track your habits and how to work on new habits that you need to start.

(4) Plan Your Life – you will learn how to use a productivity planner each day, how to plan in advance, how to set your goals using the GPS goal planning system and how to schedule your goals in your calendar so you actually achieve them.

(5) Focus Your Mind – you will learn how to live your passion so you have the best chance of staying focused, how to train your brain to think and act like a Champion, and how to limit distractions so you can actually be productive.

(6) Know Your Self – you will learn how to discover your uniqueness from test you take, how to do a self-assessment so you can know your style without doing a test, how to create a personal profile document, how to apply all these insights to your productivity and how to keep learning about yourself.

(7) Renew Your Energy – you will learn how to generate physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy so that you are able to show up in any life situation with more than enough energy to face whatever comes your way.

I am excited about this journey. I do need to say that I won’t be trying to pack the content of my book into these message – the book is available via Amazon.com in eBook or paperback formats using this link: http://bit.ly/TPLBOOK.

The book contains a link to a downloads folder where you can download the workbook and loads of resources that I have made available.

I can assure you that your purchase will be a worthwhile investment in your life and that your levels of productivity will skyrocket. How do I know this? I have passed these keys on to countless people over the years and have personally seen their lives change for the better.