Masters Of Productivity Schedule This Into Their Calendar First… — Perception Academy
Would you like to know the number one thing masters of productivity schedule into their calendar?
Over the past few years I have been modeling some of the most productive people around me and one of the patterns was extremely fascinating to me. These productivity experts are people who regularly publish articles and books, maintain their health, run successful 6–7 figure businesses, manage their relationships, and nearly never drop the ball on anything important.
These people accomplish so much more than the average person, and yet they seem to have more energy left over at the end of the day and the amount they accomplish seems surreal from the outside. How could they possibly pull that off?
When it came to scheduling, every single one of the productivity experts that I modeled scheduled their ‘self-care’ time first. Well, a few referred to it as ‘self care’, others referred to it as ‘breaks, days off, and vacations’, and one of them even referred to it as ‘sanity time’!
One fact of life is, you can always fill your calendar with more activities than you can actually accomplish.
When scheduling their calendars productivity experts first fill in the self-care blocks. If it doesn’t get scheduled it doesn’t get done, and self-care is a necessity of life. If you are tired, burned out, overworked, and under-slept, how productive can you truly be in the long run?
So how does this apply in practice?
If you are looking at your annual calendar, schedule your vacation time first. This does not necessarily mean travel vacations, but time off from required work. I recommend at least taking one weeks off every six months.
Looking at your weekly calendar, how many days off do you have scheduled? Even the bible recommends taking at least one day off from work per week.
Looking at your daily calendar, do you have your lunch break scheduled? Do you have the end of your day scheduled? Do you give yourself a break every 60–90 minutes or so away focused work? Do you have exercise scheduled into your calendar?
To maintain peak productivity in the long run you have to take care of yourself, and productivity experts agree that peak productivity is a result of scheduling time for yourself first.
Trouble maintaining boundaries for when it’s time to take a break? https://perceptionacademy.com/the-power-of-no/
How to get yourself to do things you need to do but don’t want to? https://perceptionacademy.com/a-technique-to-enjoy-doing-the-things-you-need-to-do-but-dont-want-to-do/
What is productivity and how productive are you? https://perceptionacademy.com/what-is-productivity-and-how-productive-are-you/
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Originally published at https://perceptionacademy.com on March 20, 2020.
