Would you like to have more time for pure fun, whether it's vacations, playing soccer with your kids, hanging out with friends watching sporting events? The answer lies in how you deal with your to do list. Now everybody, whether they realize it or not, has a to do list, but highly productive people have a different relationship with their to do list. They don't put something on the to do list unless it is truly important. Something that's really going to make an impact on their life. The answer they just have to do sometimes you got to pick up your dry cleaning.
I understand that. But unproductive people and people of average productivity typically have way too many other things on their list that just aren't really that important, but they'll fill up your whole day. So what highly productive people do is they try to eliminate things that are Don't create a big impact. So if you do the most important things that have the biggest impact, that create the most productivity in your job, your business, your career and your life, and not much else, it frees up so much time for other things. So for example, in my core business of public speaking, training and media training, I do high end private workshops. And I used to do a great deal of public workshops and the public workshops, people pay a much smaller fee per person.
They come to an event venue, either my space or other spaces I've organized with people. There's a lot more marketing involved. And there's a lot more pieces of the puzzle. What I have determined is that's simply not a productive use of my time. Rather than spending all that time marketing to get people there one time, I'd rather create courses that will stand the test of time And it can be used for 510, maybe longer 1015 years, and reach people all over the world at different times, and, frankly, make me more money, reach more people and have a lot less waste and not have to spend time organizing venues and who's going to bring the coffee and all of that. So, even though I could do public workshops here in New York City, in different cities around the world, I decided not to because it is simply not the most productive use of my time.
So always be asking yourself, not Is it something I could do? Is it something that might help? Is it something that might make money but is it the absolute best use of your time, focus on that your calendar will free up for all sorts of other free time and leisure