You've heard me mentioned that before, but it bears saying again, productive people do not manage time. Because you can't manage. They manage themselves. That's what they focus on. So they have items on their calendar that fill up their calendar. They don't just have, what am I going to do today?

General sense. They have specific goals. A Parkinson's Law states that the amount of time you have an amount of time it takes to do something expands based on the amount of time you have, if you give yourself a set amount of time, whether it's two hours, two days or two weeks for a project, that's how long it will take to do it. That's why highly productive people try to give themselves specific goals within certain time frame. So for example, today I woke up. I looked at my calendar, it had only one item on it.

Well, you may think well, TJ, that doesn't sound productive. You're only gonna accomplish one thing today, I thought you were the productivity expert. The one thing is I'm going to make 100 videos for this course today. And that was will squeeze out everything else. Yeah, there are other things I've got to do, I might have to take an emergency phone call. I still want to finish in time for dinner and sport with my family.

But I'm going to do these 100 videos today. If I told myself the goal, were nine videos, I could easily fill up the whole day doing other paperwork, checking social media and doing the nine videos but I'm going to do 100 videos today. It's on my calendar and it's filling up the whole day. My recommendation to you if you want to be productive, you have to have things on your calendar. And they have to be things you're going to take seriously and accomplish in that time period. unproductive people never have anything on their calendar.

They never seem to be able to get anything done either before you know it, the day is gone and all they've done is eat three meals and check the news. That's not productivity.