5 Productivity Secrets of Successful Personalities

We always read blogs or hear news of how the most successful have managed to achieve projects or goals that sound so incredible to believe.

We all look for the secret solution to success and we convince ourselves that these extraordinary people must have had something special that prompted them to travel that path, a path that from our perspective seems simple since these people had the resources that we lack.

The truth is that finding success is not a matter of a single wonderful resource that appeared to us as magic mushrooms appear to Mario.

Guest consultant: Susette Solorzano

If we try to enter the minds of a great entrepreneur, innovator, athlete or great celebrity, we will find that they have developed certain habits and strategies that are a constant throughout years of work. These habits guarantee that you will have excellent results every day.

In this post, I explain what those 5 are productivity secrets better saved that will allow you to go from the level you are at the moment to the most advanced levels of your career.

Habit # 1: Elevate Your Ambitions

Motivation is generated from ambition. Ambition is the spark that ignites the engine that drives you to be motivated every day. Successful and productive people have high levels of motivation.

Everything is related and interconnected: When your ambition drops and stays flat, your motivation drops, when your motivation drops your life energy drops and when your life energy drops you avoid doing the work necessary to excel. You dedicate yourself to doing only what is necessary, the “maintenance” tasks in your life.

your productivity it is directly related to your motivation and your ambitions. If you think that you should be doing a lot of things but you are not doing them, it is most likely that you have not found the connection or you are not clear about your ambitions.

Ambition is the greatest fire you can have.

“We can fool ourselves into doing more things for a while, however, without the right motivation we stop doing them.”

Successful people are more consistently and effectively productive than other people because everything they do they do for long periods of time and not just for a couple of weeks.

It is not that they are the smartest people, they have been consistent in producing results and in this way they manage to reap the benefits resulting from their great ambitions and consistency.

Most people fail to be productive because they limit their ambitions, they are more concerned with what other people think. You do not need the permission, support or power of other people to achieve your greatest ambitions.

To be more productive and consistent on a day-to-day basis, you need to reconnect with that ambition. That connection is what guides your daily actions.

There is a big differentiator between successful and unsuccessful people. Unsuccessful people say: “I don’t know how to do this”And they give up. When a successful person does not know how to do something, they block time from their days to study, test, get mentors until they understand it. Until you conquer it.

Exercise 1: Find your productive power. What do you really want for the next level of your personal and professional success? Connect with it. Let that ambition be the fuel that gives you energy to keep going, let it change you and become part of yourself.

Habit # 2: Own your mornings

If your mornings start in chaos and reacting to your environment the rest of your days will be controlled by conformism and reaction. The way you start your journey counts.

86% of people who have a smartphone take their cell phone and check their email, Facebook, twitter or other applications when they wake up. They start in reactive mode, letting the demands of the world control their actions. If you are one of these people and you think that it does not affect you at all, it is very possible that you are not fully aware of the repercussions and the cost that this bad habit has on your life.

Time runs its course, our behavior becomes part of our character and throughout our lives we develop a reactive attitude.

You lose control of your day if you don’t have control of your mornings. When you let things happen of their own nature and fail to take control of your days, that is mediocrity. It is more comfortable to let others dictate your priorities and not take responsibility for them.

However, if you incorporate productive habits during the day you will see great results. You gain 30% more productivity if you don’t verify your email in the first 60 minutes of the day.

Exercise 2: Take control of your schedule and mentality, own your days.

1. Get up, take a shower, eat healthy, do a stretching routine, read something that develops your character, listen to some motivational audio
2. Activate your body, your energy rises when you activate your body and you manage to recover better from problems when doing physical activity. Do yoga, work on your breath.
3. Define your intentions and exactly what you are going to work on for the day. The human mind is governed by goals and limits.

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Habit # 3: move your key pieces

Your job is to learn what are the things that are most important and keep out all the things that are not. This is the 80/20 principle.

Usually, 20% of the things that people do is really what matters and 80% invest it just to see what else is out there. Convinced that they are excellent at multitasking one thing here and another there.

It becomes a bigger problem when you have a team, it is very likely that your team wants to contribute all the talent they have. It is very easy to accept things from other people. Your job as a leader and a high performer is to coach your team and teach them what is most important and what are the most important pieces to move.

This is what Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple, the first thing he did was eliminate the entire plan and focus on the 4-8 products that would be key to the return of Apple as a benchmark in technology. This was a critical and impactful step for the brand.

In your case, you need to be clear about what those 5 are key pieces in your business that will give you the greatest results and will make you reach your goals faster. Most people have no idea what the key pieces are in their business.

When defining which are those key pieces, prioritize by impact and not by ease. If you start the day by deleting the easier tasks from your list, you will have the feeling that things are progressing. However, it is my experience that the easy things do not matter, the difficult things, the ones that cause us the most discomfort, those that have the greatest long-term impact.

Exercise 3: Determine your 5 key pieces

What are those activities that you need to do in your business that will have a greater impact on your results?

It could be to contact your network of friends and acquaintances to tell them about your company. It can be to organize an exhibition or open conference to find potential clients. It can be to upgrade your equipment and guarantee the efficiency of your processes. It could be to get the necessary financing for that new idea.

Make sure you work on those key pieces, they are the ones that will have the greatest impact on your future and your vision.

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Habit # 4: demonstrate, then delegate

We all have strengths and weaknesses. When it comes to weaknesses, we generally tend to run away from them as they make us feel uncomfortable, clumsy, and frustrated.

We dream of having a great work team to be able to delegate all those tasks that are tedious for us. However, what we end up delegating is ease and not impact.

Many times we delegate tasks that even we ourselves are not sure if they bring an impact to our organization. We do not know what it is, or what it is for.

Before we can delegate we need to understand our own processes and systems before transferring responsibility to someone else. How can you manage something that you have never understood?

Show, show what is the best way to do things and what is the impact it has on your organization. Then delegate.

Those people who have not mastered the skills they need to be successful fail. When you are starting out, you need to learn the skills that will take you to the next level.

Seth Godin in the book “Manage your day to day”, Talks about a topic that is very critical and important and that many creative and innovative minds fail to master: selling.

“The first part of mastering your days is practicing a solid daily routine. The second part, which I think is critical, is understanding that being creative means that you have to sell your ideas. Selling is part of your profession because if you don’t sell there is no creation. ”

Exercise # 4: What are those skills that you have refused to master because you believe they are not within your capabilities?

Habit # 5: use performance enhancers

High-performance executives use techniques to raise their performance that directly affect their bottom line. Here are the top 3 performance enhancers most measured in all productivity studies.

  • Sleep: If you don’t sleep 8 hours every day, chances are you will also check your phone in the morning. There are 50 years of studies on the science of sleep. It has been concluded that a person who sleeps less than 7 hours a day suffers great losses in their abilities, both in their competencies and in the ability to make decisions. After 10 days of sleeping for only 6 hours a day, cognitive skills decline, memory fails, and social skills decline. By day 10, studies have shown that the person has a state equivalent to a person in a drunken state.
  • To meditate: meditation lowers stress levels, puts your mind in a state in which it is easier to access creative phases and think big, helps your ability to connect with your ambition and vision
  • Practice recovery transitions: When you finish a very large activity or a large and important project, you need time to recover. Athletes know this, after rigorous training, they know they have to give their body time to recover, repair tissues, and strengthen muscles in preparation for the next phase. We forget the importance that this element plays in our creative ability. We need moments of transition.
  • To plan: Most people don’t plan anything, they just get carried away. Plan your days, this is your great secret weapon.
  • Equipment: create a competent team that helps you achieve your greatest goals

Also, nourish your body properly, exercise and take specific supplements for your needs.

As you can see, success is not achieved by installing an app or buying the most powerful computer. The secret of the most successful is perseverance in their good practices.

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About Susette Solorzano: Entrepreneur and founder of Genius Assistant, an intensive program based on personal productivity techniques. Degree in Marketing and specialist in personal productivity techniques for Managers, Entrepreneurs, Executives and Personal Assistants.

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