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Video: The 5 Easy Steps To Think Like a Geek (and why you want to!)

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Want to improve your productivity and mastery over technology? Think geek!

No, that doesn’t mean you need to don Spock ears, enter a video game tournament, or take lightsaber dueling classes.

In this video you’ll learn the five easy steps I use to embrace my inner geek on a daily basis and radically improve my productivity and market value.

How about you? How do you embrace your inner geek?

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Video: “Daddy, is Facebook good for people?”

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Video: Travel Tips from the Moving Walkway!

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Top 10 Tips to move from a Culture of Now to a Culture of When

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A colleague of mine, Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D, asked me to put together a list of top 10 productivity tips on how to move from a “Culture of Now” to a “Culture of When.”

A “Culture of Now” says that everything needs to be done right now, it needs to have an immediate response. The “Culture of Now” is terribly unproductive.

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Video: Scheduling Time for Email

I’ve been so busy this with with my new National Association of Productivity Coaches that I needed to pull a “previously unleased” video from the archives.

So, it’s an oldie-but-a-goodie. (You’ll be able to tell from the fall colors in the background!) I actually recorded this right after a workshop session with the worldwide customer service executives from Novell. They were a very fun and knowledgeable group!

In this quick video you’ll get the answer I gave to them about one of their biggest questions.

P.S. Please comment: what times of the day have YOU established for checking your email? Does this work for you?

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Video: Zappos Tour Clips and Insights

Last week I was invited by Greg Habstritt to speak in Las Vegas to his VIP clients. He told me they were going on the Zappos tour in the morning, so I made sure I arrived early so I could go with them. Not only was the tour amazing, but Tony Hsieh responded to Greg’s request and spent about 1 hour just responding to our questions.

I filmed a bunch of clips from the Tour so you could get a taste of the experience, then added my own insights at the end.

After the tour ZapposInsights.com approached me for an interview interviewed me for a special piece they’re going to do on The Myth of Multitasking. If you’re a ZapposInsights member, watch for that in a couple of weeks,

This is a bit more of a “fancy” video then the usually fare that I offer. I hope you enjoy!

Everyone is Royalty at Zappos -- Even Dave

Everyone is Royalty at Zappos -- Even Dave

P.S.  Discussion question for this week: how can Zappos employees still be productive when they switch desks at random occasionally? I have my theory, but I’d like to hear yours. Please comment on the blog!

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Comment on CNN’s: “2010: Year of digital distraction?”

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Pete Cashmore founder and CEO of Mashable wrote a special article for CNN.com about how we are headed for ever-increasing distraction.

Even more interesting than the article, however, are the comments from the users on the site. One user says:

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the company i work for give you an “allowance” giving you 60mins of time on the internet in 10min sessions. This makes it good to go on these sites whenever you wish, but not when the company suits it. as well as this we have a “chill-out” room that we can browse the whole internet.

Another user replied:
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What company do you work for? My employer blocks all well known social networking sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Hulu, etc. So, yay, my productivity is “up”.
My message to companies worldwide: stop trying to hide from social media and the internet! You do NOT increase productivity by limiting internet usage. What will truly increase productivity in the workplace is by educating your employees on how to use these tools responsibly.
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Candid Productivity Bonus Episode: Out of the Ghetto

Spending thousands of dollars on technology, but getting pennies worth of results?

You first met Keith in the Power Delete! Candid Productivity episode. He talked me into to answering another question.

Consider this a Bonus episode, with more great content.

Keith called his current appointment scheduling system “ghetto.” I agreed!

So I gave him a few options for not only coordinating appointments with his assistant, but also improving his data synchronization. These are surprisingly common issues.

My guess is that if you’re like the majority of the people I coach, speak to, or who read my books, you’re misusing the technology available to you! Most people don’t need a new gadget or tool or planner or PDA. What they need is professional productivity coaching to learn how to properly use the tools they already have!

The bad news: There is no way that I could possibly answer all your questions in the brief time I have for these episodes.

The good news: My Two Day Productivity Miracle covers absolutely everything you need to get focused, get organized, and get time. It includes:

  • Over seven hours of video of episodes of me coaching a corporate team
  • A searchable database of a growing repository of direct answers to every single productivity question in the world.
  • Access to ask your questions via email to my Invaluable coaches (a live person) at any time you’d like.
  • In short, it’s just like having me come into your office, at any time you’d like, just as you see with Keith

Even though companies pay me up to $10,000 per day to train them personally, I can offer, for a limited window of opportunity, instant access to my Two Day Productivity Miracle for under $300!

To learn about the Two Day Productivity Miracle, CLICK HERE.

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Case Study: Incomplete Projects Finally Completed!

Clay Johnson is a business owner and very successful entrepreneur. Despite his successes, he always felt that he was ultimately limited by his inability to handle interruptions. In this video, learn how he was able to finally control the interruptions to increase his success level.

Pay close attention to the comparison he makes between my Get Time coaching and other coaching programs. How many times have you attended a seminar, read a book, or listened to an audio course only to find the results drop off after a few weeks?

The great majority of our clients say that same thing that Clay says. The results  from my Two Day Productivity Miracle will stick with you in the long run, longer than any other program in the world!

P.S. Sometimes you’ll see a testimonial about some amazing results in a training program, and then at the bottom, in little tiny letters you’ll see the phrase:

“Results not typical.” Huh? Then why tell us about the results?

You’ll NEVER, ever see that disclaimer with my case studies. The results you’ll see from Clay’s video ARE typical.

THESE results are actually very, very USUAL.

P.P.S. In fact it’s very UNUSUAL when someone who completes my Get Time training doesn’t gain tremendous amounts of time, improve focus dramatically, and become more organized than they have been for years!

Its so unusual that I offer a triple guarantee on my Two Day Productivity Miracle.

Learn more about my Two Day Productivity Miracle by CLICKING here.

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Candid Productivity Episode: The Meeter

Ever wish your meetings lasted half as long as the normally do?

Welcome to the next video in my new Candid Productivity Video Series!

These are the same kinds of in-depth answers my Invaluable Coaches and I provide in my Two Day Productivity Miracle.

Meet Skeeter, both a principle partner and director of sales for an online debt reduction company. Skeeter coordinates a lot of schedules and oversees the success of many sales reps.

Because of that, he sits in a lot of meetings. Skeeter is, well, a “meeter.” The meetings are supposed to help his people be more efficient, yet they end up wasting a lot of time.

Do you experience that at all in your workplace? In this episode I show him just two principles from my Two Day Productivity Miracle to make his meetings truly productive.

He also had another problem that I can relate with: office disorganization (it doesn’t look like it when you see the video, but he explains why it looks like he “cheated” before I came). I give him a simple principle to help him wrangle his cantankerous workspace!

P.S. Have you checked out my Two Day Productivity Miracle yet? It covers these principles I discussed with Skeeter in great  depth. More important, it helps you become conditioned for permanent productivity! After you watch the video, learn how to condition yourself for workday mastery at: http://www.TimeBootCamp.com

PLEASE COMMENT BELOW:

How long is an average meeting for you? Do you find them to be productive, or more of a waste of time?

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