Start Messy

How can you force your mind to focus on the most critical and important things? How can you fit them in during a day? Sometimes like seems like so much that you cannot focus or get it all completed…

But with this technique you learn today you will be able to use focus as  your superpower and achieve potentially 40% more productivity in a day.

Book:

Cal Newport "Deep Work"

Start Messy Action Items:

1. Get an alarm
2. Create ideal week using block methodically
3. Place to do list into blocks
4. Share

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With the current work from home climate, the flexible to choose your hours is more available now than ever. Do you know when you are most productive? Do you know when you will naturally get into the zone?

You cannot be expect to perform at a high intensity for the whole day or even for 8 "work" hours.  Working the typically 9-5 is honestly an old way of thinking. We should be prioritize people's most productive times over a set time.  If you could pick 4 hours without meetings and just focus time what would it be?

This is also why my morning routine doesn’t start until 10 or 11 because my productive hours are from 5-8am. Why spend is valuable productive time doing routine tasks? Morning routines are great but the time of it doesn’t matter as much as the consistency of completing the tasks.

Start Messy Action Item: Align your most important task with your most productive time of day

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In today's episode we are talking about self-doubt and how to reduce or minimize the negative self-talk.

"Everyone experiences self-doubt. Think about the most successful person you know, they have experienced self-doubt. Self-doubt is feelings of not being capable or good enough to achieve the outcome you want. Not all self-doubt is bad. Sometimes it can act as motivation for you. Maybe you are not as talented as you want to be at something and it pushes you to become better. The type of self-doubt that stops you from moving forward in life is the kind I am talking about to today. It can come when responding to a text or being asked to complete a new task. When you know you are truly capable of completing the task but you lie to yourself about your ability."

Start Messy Action Item:

Review your life & goals to find where doubt is preventing you from moving forward.

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Today's episode we discuss how to find happiness in your life already. Achieving goals can only improve your life, but it won't make you happy if you are already not happy.

So we are diving into 4 techniques that will create or show you happiness in your own life.

Quotes:

Brene Bown: “Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration”

Start Messy Action Item:

List 3 things you are thankful for today

Learn tips on how to create New Year's resolutions that are actually successful. Make this year different from all the others. Make this year the year that you achieve the goals that drive you closer to being the person you want to be.

Start Messy Action Item:

Once you have learned how to create successful New Year's Resolutions, reevaluate yours and update as need to set yourself up for success!

Have you ever felt disconnect from your spouse? Do you feel like sometimes they just don't get you? Are you trying to reach out but keep getting shut down?

Well you may be speaking different languages, different love languages. Love is not accept by everyone in the same way. Do you know your love language? Do you know your spouse's love language? Discover today how to build, improve, and succeed in your relationship by bringing the love back.

Book: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Dr Gary Chapman

Quizzes:  https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/

Start Messy Actions:

1. Chat with your spouse about love languages + determine each person's language
2. Start today with a small act of showing them love in THEIR love language

In this week's episode we discuss two different methods of prioritizing your day. It is not just about getting a task done each day. That tasks also needs to be the best task for you in the moment to achieving the biggest result.

Recommended Books: Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy

Eisenhower Matrix: Christinapoolesmith.com/podcast

Start Messy Action Item: Pick a method & prioritize your day today

Quote: "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." Stephen Covey

In this episode, we discuss what habits are, how they make up our identity, relate to our goals and how to create healthy productive habits. Habits are a very expansive subject so this topic will continue to be intermingled throughout our journey together.

Books:

Atomic Habits by James Clear:

https://tinyurl.com/yxap8bdl

Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg:

https://tinyurl.com/yxa46hro

The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins:

https://tinyurl.com/y557edqz

In this episode we are going talk about how to breakdown your focus goal into clear quick actions and create a game plan for success. Understanding exactly what is needed and knowing how long each action will take gives us the freedom to schedule our time accordingly while making progress.

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Today we focus on creating the correct 10 goals for your life based on your life evaluation and the 10 key areas. 

Goal Creation Steps: Pray, Write as if they have already

happened, Give it a measurable goal, Set goals about things that

you can control.

Once you have determined your 10 goals, we will review how to find your "focus" goal. You will put all your energy into the one goal that will be the catalyst for several if not all the others! 

Start Messy Action Item: Decide on your 10 goals and your focus goal, share it with me so I can root you on along the way, & then write your 10 goals including the focus goal every morning and night until they are ingrained in your soul.  

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