Personal Productivity is Strategic Yield
What is personal productivity? Getting more done . . . . . in less and less time? Partially correct. Productivity is directly tied to the purpose of what you’re doing. The more what you’re doing is vital to your ultimate success, the more you’re being productive.
The best definition for “productive” in this context is: “Yielding favorable or useful results.” The ultimate measure of productivity is STRATEGIC YIELD.
By definition, “busy work” is not productive. High-yield action tends to be related to significant, long-term goals . . . meaning results that actually change your business and personal life.
How many high-yield hours, on average, do you have in an average day? What would it take to experience a significant improvement – or even a dramatic improvement – in the number of high-yield hours? What can you delegate or eliminate to make yourself more productive?
Copyright 2009. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.
Oddly, as I mentioned this morning, the largest spur I find to increasing my productivity is to spend that 30 minutes to an hour doing something, with high focus, totally unrelated to my work. A long strenuous walk, an hour working in the garden, whatever. Getting my mind and body away from what I’m producing helps me to produce it.