{"id":476,"date":"2019-09-11T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ymresourcer.com\/Mark\/?p=476"},"modified":"2022-02-12T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T14:46:34","slug":"living-a-productive-life-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ymresourcer.com\/Mark\/archives\/476","title":{"rendered":"Living a Productive Life (Part 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Over the past seven weeks I have explored\neach of the 7 keys to living a productive life from my book, The\nProductive Life<\/em>.\nAs I wrap up this series of messages, let me suggest a few things that could\nsabotage your efforts at living a Productive Life and remind you of what we\ncovered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Struggling with Guilt.<\/strong> Many people feel guilty\nwhen they are not working a hundred-hour week. For many years I was a\nrecovering workaholic. I was the worst possible taskmaster and I kept driving\nmyself to work non-stop \u2013 even when I was supposed to be off. Thankfully,\nmaturity and a desire to live a truly Productive Life have helped me leave that\nway of thinking and living behind. Maybe you are in a different place in your\ncareer and don\u2019t yet feel the need to balance your life. Hopefully you will\nlearn from others who have gone before you and learn to pace yourself and pay\nattention to all areas of your life. When you work, work hard and smart, but\nwhen you rest, rest well!!! Make sure you implemented the strategies you learnt\nin Key #1: Live Your Mission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Dealing with Overwhelm.<\/strong> My wife and I have a\nblackboard in our kitchen where we write motivational quotes for each week.\nLast week we chose to use a quote from the Productivity\nParadox Podcast<\/em>\nby Tonya Dalton: \u201cOverwhelm is not having too much\nto do – it is not knowing where to start.\u201d<\/em> This book should have given you\npractical tools and strategies to know what action to take in any moment as we\nexplored in Key #2: Manage Your Actions<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Battling with Habits.<\/strong> My daughter, Ashley,\noften speaks of how our bodies have muscle memory and the negative effects that\ncan have on our efforts to get or keep fit. Our minds have something similar\ngoing on and we will need to work consistently at the new ideas and habits that\nwe are developing to overcome old ways of thinking and living. Don\u2019t forget we\nreferenced research that suggested that we need to repeat an action for at\nleast 66 days before it become a habit. You may need to revisit Key #3:\nBuild Your Habits<\/strong> to refine your best practices around mastering good\nhabits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Neglecting Key Areas.<\/strong> Maybe you are doing\nwell in some areas of your life but you are really struggling in other areas.\nRemember we have been talking about the Productive Life and not just the\nProductive Employee. It may be helpful to revisit Key #4: Plan Your Time<\/strong>\nwhere you learnt to include a wide variety of life areas in your planning to\nset and achieve your goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Getting Easily Distracted.<\/strong> The world is not going\nto suddenly stop shouting for your attention. You won\u2019t wake up tomorrow with\nno messages or demands for you to respond. You will need to continually revisit\nKey #5: Focus Your Mind<\/strong> and keep working on avoiding distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Fighting Your Nature.<\/strong> If you don\u2019t appreciate\nhow you have been wired and spend too much time trying to overcome your natural\nstrengths and tendencies you will end up being frustrated because you have\nspent too much time trying to change who you have been uniquely created to be.\nIf this become an issue then Key #6: Know Your Self<\/strong> could be the game\nchanger you have been looking for as you embrace who you are and work with\nyourself rather than against yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Running on Empty.<\/strong> If one day you remember\nyour good intentions to live a Productive Life but you find yourself thinking:\n\u201cI just don\u2019t have the energy to\nshow up and deliver anything today\u201d <\/em>then it would be time to revisit Key\n#7: Renew Your Energy<\/strong> and do things that will generate the physical,\nemotional, mental and spiritual energy you need to live a Productive Life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I trust that you have benefited from this series and have either\ninvested in a copy of my book or have an intention to do so! As I mentioned in\na previous message, if you honestly can\u2019t afford to purchase a copy, then send\nme a direct message and I will send you a digital copy for free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some places where you can purchase a copy if you are able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon (http:\/\/bit.ly\/TPLBOOK<\/a>) \u2013 eBook and Paperback for global shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takealot (http:\/\/bit.ly\/TPL_Takealot<\/a>) \u2013 Paperback for South Africa shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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