But have you heard that your productivity is only as strong as your personal weakest link?
You probably are very strong in a few areas of productivity already. Maybe you have great follow-through. Maybe you make an effort to always be on time. Perhaps you have a very organized workspace.
It’s typically for the business leaders I work with to be strong in a few areas. Unfortunately it’s the one weak area that causes their chain to fall apart. That’s why they come to me for helps.
What is your ONE weakest area?
Mastering the entire productivity chain is critical to making yourself invaluable in today’s market.
Allow yourself to continue to operate with weak links, and
you make yourself easier to replace. You decrease the amount of money you can make. You devastate your own job security.
Watch this video, then comment to share what you feel is your ONE biggest weak link in your productivity chain.
Tim Mai and his brother escaped Vietnam on a fishing boat in 1986. Tim has become a master of helping people automate their Real Estate businesses. He built a substantial empire starting from literally nothing, so he’s very careful about how he invests his time and his money.
He tells people my Get Time coachingwas one of the best investments he ever made in his business.
He is truly one of the happiest people in the world. It’s nearly impossible to spend any time with Tim to not start smiling yourself!
He’s smiling even more after completing my Get Time Coaching. Watch this video to see why.
Good morning. I would like to share with you that it does relate to your productivity and it has to do with this: [holds up water] I have got a pitcher of water filled up.
This morning when I went to the sink to wash my hands I needed to use this pitcher of water. We live in a fairly new community and that means that sometimes development work needs to take place and in this case they had to do some work on the water mains. They did a great job of preparing us in advance. There was a big sign outside of our community, big flashing light that said, “This is the date that we are going to be working on the water, you are not going to have any water from 9 am to 9 pm and be prepared.”
My wife of course took note of that, is always very prepared and last night we got together lots of pitchers of water like this, filled them up so that we would have plenty for water for today.
Now, what does that have to do with your schedule? Think about the things in your calendar that you know are upcoming, that you know are going to be significant and may take a lot of time to work on. Have you put enough room in your calendar to deal with those things? Not just the actions that need to take place, but the switches that take place and the transition time that needs to take place. Do you have enough water in your pitchers for these kinds of events?
I will give you a personal example. In a few weeks, a very exciting event is going to take place in my entire family’s life, which is we are going to have a daughter and this is very exciting. My little boy is excited about it, my wife is excited about it, I am excited about it. But I had to put room in my schedule to be prepared for this. Not that I can predict with a 100% accuracy when she is going to come-because, hey, when the baby wants to come, she is going to come-but I did leave an entire week in my schedule completely open. I am refusing to schedule anything for myself during that time that is most likely to for her to be born. This gives me plenty of buffer space, plenty of water in my pitcher so that I am prepared in advance for that event.
You have events like that that are coming up in a month, in two months, three months, maybe even a year. You can put plenty of water in your pitcher and make sure that you have got lots and lots of space to be prepared for it so that you don’t come up on that time and realize that you have packed your schedule so full that there is no room for air.
You can be in control of your time and this is something that I help my clients do every single day. Thank you for listening. It’s an honor to serve you.
This is Dave Crenshaw. I am here at Beautiful Sundance in Utah. You can see behind me we have got the amazing stream. I just got done with a group called NetWeave and this was started by my good friend Jason Payne who is an outstanding financial planner and someone with the highest integrity that I know. [Dave's note: this informal group was created by Scott Asbell of Rocky Mountain Mortgage, as well. The term NetWeaving comes from a book by Robert S. Little and Donna Fisher]
I just wanted to share a principle with you that really came to my mind when we were spending all this time with NetWeave. The whole point of this group was to find ways to serve others. “They” always say that it is better to give than to receive. I certainly agree with that for so many reasons; but it is also more efficient and productive to give than to receive and here is why.
There were 18 people in that room and if we had spent our time in that room trying to convince each other how wonderful we were or trying to talk about “why you should do business with me,” it would have been extremely unproductive, it would have been a waste of all that time. But instead everyone in the group focused on how they could do things and serve each other during that time and we got lots done. I have a list of probably 40 different actions items that I can take away from that group. It’s just such a powerful principle.
The next time that you are in a situation where you can get to know people and you want to do business, you want to improve your business, remember that it’s better for you to give and more productive to give than to receive.
