Tag: Productivityblockers
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Productivity Blocker: not delegating tasks
If you’re feeling stuck doing it all then try our framework that will show you how to delegate tasks and get back to making progress!
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Productivity Blocker: Decision Fatigue
Red or green? Take a trip to the city or out to the country? Chicken, steak, pork or fish? Simple questions, but making them back to back to back to back can be exhausting. Harvard found that the average person makes over 30,000 decisions a day! With all those decisions to make, what are we…
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Productivity Blocker: Meetings without agendas.
Harvard Business Review did a study of senior managers and found that over 70% found meetings to be unproductive and over 60% thought that it took time from deep thought. These meetings are a serious blocker to productivity and keep us from accomplishing the things that move the needle! What are we to do then?…
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Productivity blocker: poor sleep.
How productive do you really feel after a poor nights sleep? Did that cup of coffee really help you feel better or do you just feel jittery? The sleep foundation found that many of us, around a third, get less sleep than we really need! Here’s the facts. The Sleep Foundation states that reduced sleep…
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Productivity Blockers: Notifications
Ping! Ding Ding! BUZZZ… Apps, emails, texts, calls, the notifications of something new are constantly trying to reach us as competition for attention grows. Even some web browsers are tying to get us to get ourselves up for alerts to websites! That can make it harder and harder to keep focused and productive to achieve…
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Productivity Blocker: Scope Creep
Have you felt like a task just keeps getting drug on forever? Like, there’s no real end goal or result that you’re trying to achieve? How about a task that just keeps getting bigger and more complex? You could be dealing with problems from project managers, call scope creep! Lets look at scope creep The…
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Productivity Blocker: Lack Of Prioritization
Here’s a simple truth, not all tasks are created equal. That’s because not every outcome is going to be equal! When we try and make everything happen with the same level of energy and urgency, the tasks that really are urgent and make massive progress gets lost in the noise of life. Proper and realistic…
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Productivity Blocker: Task Switching
Here’s the truth, trying to multi-task is costing you. What’s really happening is called task switching where you brain attempts to move rapidly between tasks and gives you the illusion that you’re working on multiple things at once. That means that you’re really losing out on time and progress you could have been making! Downsides…