7 Daily Habits of
Hyper-Efficient People
How to define the essential things in your life and business.
Staying ahead of the curve, leading, and
excelling in our jobs means we all must increase efficiencies.
Here are the seven things that
hyper-efficient people do differently.
1.They learn. Efficiently.
They
listen to audio books--but do it at double speed. I've discussed my obsession
with audiobooks here before.
When you're learning, you're growing. When you're growing, you're bringing new
opportunities to yourself and to those around you. A simple efficiency
hack is to increase the speed of your audiobook 1x or 2x. Or installiTalkFast--a sexy audio-utility app that allows the user to speed
up audio content up to 2.5x.
2. They're mindful.
Creating
space in our lives is difficult. Time for meditation, yoga, or simply being
aware of our breathing can all have a profound effect on our productivity.
Deirdre Breakenridge, author of Social
Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional, takes things a step further. She told me, "As much
as possible, when I'm in meetings, I remove unnecessary technology. At times,
this means no smartwatch, smartphone, or laptop in front of me." She went
on to share that, "When you listen to what people are saying, you
eliminate the time-consuming guesswork that occurs after the meeting. Listening
carefully allows you to move forward with clear direction, purpose, and high
efficiency."
3. They exercise and get enough
sleep.
By
now, we all know that exercise and sufficient sleep are important. But for
some, they feel unrealistic. Bill Arzt, co-founder of the hot
startup FitReserve, offers a
shortcut that's helped him. He suggests you "replace networking with
sweatworking. Combine your meetings with workouts."
4. They don't waste time with emotional
battles that don't matter.
Alex
Baydin, founder and CEO of PerformLine, told me, "I have found it very helpful to mentally
assign the emotional battles of running a startup to one of two
buckets. Bucket A--the stuff that matters bucket. Bucket B--the doesn't
matter bucket. Every time I am faced with an issue, my first course of
action is to decide Bucket A or B." He confessed that, "The vast
majority will fall into Bucket B. The few issues that truly matter I then deal
with head-on."
5. They prioritize their life.
Greg
McKeown, author of Essentialism:
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, speaks about the hyper-efficient in his book. He
says such people know what they want, and they put their goals first.
After all, he adds, "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else
will."
6. They live simply, by saying no.
Living simply means knowing what it means to
be productive versus active. The hyper-efficient are sculptors of their
own lives. They take away instead of add.
Time management is emotional--we feel
guilt. Understand that you are the problem. You're saying "yes"
to too much.
You want to help people, but when you
say yes to one thing that doesn't matter, you're saying yes to the
nonessential things that come along with it. So, start saying no more
often.
7. They throw away to-do lists and
automate menial tasks.
Efficient people don't just determine how
urgent something is (referring to how soon or significant it is). They
also determine how LONG something matters. Meaning: What can
they do today that will have the greatest impact down the line?
Success is no longer related
to volume. Success is determined by the significance the task
has in your life. You can then investigate ways to automate those
important yet time-consuming actions.
I
recently heard Rory Vaden, author of Procrastinate
on Purpose, share a profound idea. Rory said,
"Automation is to your time as compound interest is to your money.
BY CHRIS DESSI
http://www.inc.com/chris-dessi/7-daily-habits-of-hyper-efficient-people.html?cid=em01014week04a
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