Unproductive people are often the busiest people you will ever meet. They're running around going to this meeting, going to that meeting, sending out emails, cc to everyone. They're very busy. But they are reacting. And they're caught up in the flow quite often productive. People don't react, they act productive people are proactive, not reactive.

One way of doing that is having an agenda for each day when you wake up, have something positive you want to do that isn't just reacting to email. Now I do check my email. But it's not how I'm going to consume my whole morning. just reacting to email, there has to be a positive agenda. absolutely critical. If you want to be a productive person.

It's a really big mindset change. I know it just sounds like words you've heard them before. Every productivity guru talks about this And yet most of us don't do it. You have to be proactive. You cannot just wait for things to happen. That's not how productive people operate and how they conduct their lives.