3 Ways to GSD

Wanna get more shit done?

I do.

Want 3 powerful strategies to “create” time and get shit done (GSD) in your day?

Okay, but before I do...this is how I think about productivity:

Working on tasks is USELESS, Completing tasks is EVERYTHING.

That idea speaks to my enduring disdain for “Being Busy.” You probably know plenty of people who are “always busy” and never getting anything COMPLETED.

If you see yourself in that statement, here are those three tactics to end “the busy,” and get MORE done...

1) STOP TRYING

What does “try” even mean? Trying is not the same as doing. What is the difference? Remember that feelings drive actions. “I will TRY to do that” is not the same as “I WILL do that”. Think about how each of those different sentences drive different feelings and emotions, which will likely yield different results.

2) STOP DISTRACTIONS

A distraction is an agitation of your mind. A distraction is stopping what you're doing to do something else and not get what you were doing, done. Distractions pull us away from progress and since our minds are all naturally lazy they would much rather rest. It takes a conscious effort to ignore distractions and keep our brains working.

One of the easiest ways to minimize distractions is to make them harder.

I’ll give you one real life example for me. When we started REALLY growing on Amazon, I developed a habit of checking my phone every 15-20 minutes to check for new orders.

By simply putting my phone on the other side of my office, I didn’t have easy access to it so that habit was broken after a couple weeks.

3) STOP MULTITASKING

There is no such thing as multitasking.

Accept this reality right now.

Trying to do more than one thing at a time means getting less done because it takes time to shift from one task to another. Getting closure in one task before moving on to the next typically yields much MUCH better results in the long term because you generate momentum, which frankly is the secret to productivity.

There you have it! Three of my most effective tactics for getting shit done.

Hopefully one or more of those resonate with you, and you will take Massive Action today to implement the ideas into your routine and get better results than ever before!

Have a GSD-filled day!