Stop! Wait a moment!
Do you want to change your life? Join me on my 50-Day Life Transformation Challenge. Get involved! It won't cost you anything except a few bad habits.
It's the penultimate day of my challenge, and there's something I need to get off my chest before the finale. There's something I've learned that is incredibly important: the willingness to start fresh every day.
Sometimes I feel a little stuck. Often, there are just too many options, and I find myself examining each one carefully, wondering which I should choose. Do I go left or do I go right? Which path brings me closer to my goal?
I often catch myself getting distracted instead of just picking an option.
If you want to change, you need to know where you want to go. You need a very concrete idea of what should be. Merely wishing for change leads to aimless wandering. Aimlessness leads to dissatisfaction, which then reinforces the desire for change.
A process of change can only begin once you have a very concrete vision of your goal.
Here is a simple method: Imagine your life in the future and write it down.
Consider multiple time periods and ask yourself the following questions:
You can read 5 books on increasing your productivity and achieve exactly the opposite: namely, nothing. Reading a book means you're not starting a project. Productivity equals zero.
Running shares many parallels with life. The experiences I've had while running often translate to both my personal and professional daily life.
If you start out faster than your usual pace, you’ll quickly reach a point where overexertion forces you to stop. Good pace management is therefore essential. Find your own limit to be fast, but not so fast that you overexert yourself.
There's one thing that has catapulted my productivity to an entirely new level: radical planning. I have developed my own way of dealing with tasks and planning my day, and here's how I do it:
My approach, which I call "radical planning," is based on 2 important pillars:
The first step, task capture, is the most important and simultaneously the most challenging. There is a crucial rule that must be meticulously followed:
Today, I traveled to Paris, and as always, outings with children require careful planning. Not only because it can be inherently chaotic, but also because you're leaving your familiar work environment, and daily life is completely different. A new environment can often impact productivity, but there are effective strategies to counter this: detailed planning.
It's crucial to create clear task lists and formulate them as precisely as possible, for example:
On the 17th day of my 50-Day Life Transformation Challenge, I'm dedicating myself to the topic of "Focused Work," also known as "Deep Work" – immersing oneself in work without distractions.
Some time ago, I wrote about the concept of pseudo work. Pseudo work is work that appears to keep us busy but doesn't actually create value. It tricks us into thinking we're highly productive when, in reality, we're not making real progress.
