These tips might be for you if you’re someone who consistently feels that there aren’t enough hours in the day. Maximize your productivity without losing sleep or increasing your stress levels.

Maximizing time throughout the day is a high-achiever’s specialty. Those who are most successful in life are able to maximize their days without adding undue stress, pressure, or chaos into their lives.

Here’s how you can use your 1440 minutes in a day to the best of their ability.

1) Work Smarter, Not Harder (Lazy Person Brain)
Applying processes and leveraging networks around you to drive efficiency is a major key to increasing your productivity. Successful people are “big picture” thinkers. They are most often reassessing and analyzing not only what they’re doing but HOW they’re doing it.

Create workflows, automations, and innovations that will allow you to do more but with less effort. This will help you divert some of your time to be used in other ways or to push other large tasks forward.

2) Outsource the Least Interesting Pieces (to You)
Successful people understand how to leverage talent around them to achieve collaborative goals.

Pieces of business, personal life, or other realms that don’t interest you can be easily outsourced.

Again, you can turn your time and focus to other things that you are more passionate about in the meantime. There are others who are passionate about the tasks that you are not – let them handle it!

3)  Appreciate and Reward True Talent

Part of outsourcing successfully means maintaining the team of people, friends, and family that you build around you. It only takes time and thought to appreciate those that have helped you get to where you are today. Treat others with patience, kindness, compassion, and understanding. When possible, reward those who are around you in the ways that they will appreciate (monetary, words of affirmation, experiences, etc.).

4)  Maximize your To-Do List Strategy

To-do lists can be easy to use as a way to feel productive. Successful people use a unique to-do list strategy that includes time estimations on each item (time blocking). They also will often start with the hardest or most time-consuming tasks first to ensure that the mental and physical energy is there to accomplish them. Don’t procrastinate your necessary tasks until the end of your list because it’s likely that you won’t get them done!

5)  Find Time through the Day for Efficiency

Is there time through the day where you can be more efficient? Do you commute on public transit? Do you spend time scrolling on social media? Do you have time in the morning that could be used in a better way? Whatever it may be – there is likely a way that you can structure your day to maximize time better. Successful people do a great job of filling their day but not overwhelming themselves.

6)  Prioritize Passions and Health

Being successful means that you’re also actively pursuing things that provide you joy and excitement. If you love to travel, ensure that you have a plan to work that into your short and long-term future. Successful people also take the time to prioritize their health by eating a balanced diet, moving their body as often as possible, and making time to take care of themselves. You only get one bill of health so it’s important to maintain it the best that you can over time!

7)  Live Authentically and Consider your own Needs

Finally, it’s imperative to live an authentic life. Consider your own needs outside of traditional “success” models. This is part of taking care of your mental health. Successful people understand that they’re in the journey for the long-haul so start to organize your life and habits around what makes you happy.

Will you incorporate any of these habits to boost your daily success and productivity? Are you going to do anything new to maximize your time?

We would love to hear your comments. Please contact us today!

Gary Brunson
gary@myclearfocus.com

Debra Rider
debra@myclearfocus.com

574.361.2674

Sustainable Growth & Profit Consultant, Coach, Mentor and Counselor/Therapist for Business Owners and Professionals.

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Leadership can be challenging, since many times you are forced to make risky decisions. However, effective leadership is important when it comes to making a change. And, many times, change is needed within a company if you want to make it grow. That’s why it’s imperative to become a change leader. But how can you do so, and what should you focus on? Let’s find out!

Focus on improving your communication

A good change leader needs to learn how to communicate his wishes and requirements. That’s why you need to be good at sharing what needs to be improved, while offering guidelines to everyone. If you want to make a change, then you have to communicate properly. Improper communication might not give you the results that you are waiting for.

Learn how to strategize (and improve all the time)

Strategizing is crucial for any change leader. When you want to make a change, your first focus is on creating a plan. However, you also need to strategize and find the ideal way to implement your plan. Once you start doing that, it becomes easier to make that strategy a success. A great change leader will always have a clear action plan, which is adequately structured with timelines and any specific priorities.

Make yourself more vulnerable

It might seem counter-intuitive, but yes, it’s a good idea for a change leader to step a bit outside the regular CEO or leader mold. By trying out new things, experimenting you will be able to show everyone needs to be open to change, and that can make a huge difference. You should be firm and with a vision, but also open to many new ideas.

Expect initiative

Yes, you want to expect initiative and not encourage it. The best change leaders are the ones that expect their team to be proactive and take action. Encouraging them means you’re doing half the job yourself. You want to let them push their limits and expect initiative from their side. It’s totally worth it, and the potential can be second to none.

Conclusion

It’s always going to be tricky to become a change leader, but these tips and ideas can be a great starting point. As you can see, you need to be the initiator of change, yet at the same time it makes sense to expect some signs of change from employees too. Avoid any rush, establish the right change-focused strategy, and results will be amazing!

What have you done to become a better leader? Please send us your tips today!

Gary Brunson
gary@myclearfocus.com

Debra Rider
debra@myclearfocus.com

574.361.2674

Sustainable Growth & Profit Consultant, Coach, Mentor and Counselor/Therapist for Business Owners and Professionals.

All articles, quotes, and material in this newsletter are copyrighted by our associate Gary Sorrell, Sorrell Associates, LLC ©. No part can be reproduced in any form without specific written consent. All rights reserved worldwide. Thank you!