Daily Productivity
Wave a stick around and you are bound to hit a pinata full of productivity tips somewhere on the web. Everyone has their special tips on how to make your day more productive as an entrepreneur or small business executive or simply as a worker bee. Some of them are quite good. I am especially a fan of Helen Raptoplous (also called Helen Rappy). She provides practical, easy to apply steps to manage your day more effectively and increase your productivity. When you can get more out of yourself in a day, whether working for yourself or someone else, you will be more be productive. You will achieve. You will get noticed. And you will be in demand as a result.
Dream to the Next Level
It’s been my experience that the ones who are most productive are driven; and they are almost always driven by a dream. They have a vision of who they want to be, what they want to do, how they want to add value to others.
When you feel that you have something special you can offer people in this world and it can make a difference in their lives and yours, you are more inclined to look for ways to be more effective about it.
No doubt about it, living your dream creates a new world with new possibilities and leads to to find out how to best share it with others.
That’s not to say that the dream alone is sufficient. You still must focus on daily growth, learning more about what you do and how you do it. You must learn to be intentionally productive. Many times we are “accidental achievers”; things get accomplished and we are not exactly sure how. What we want is to not only achieve our desired results, we want to know how we got there so we can repeat it.
Start that Dream
So, if the best way you can be highly productive is to work to realize your dream, then take a look at what you are doing today. Ask yourself these questions:
- What am I doing, small or large, to work towards my dream?
- What one thing, my 1%, can I use to grow today?
- What will I do tomorrow to build on that?