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Secret 5: How To Increase Your Productivity by 400% (The 80/20 Rule)

A big form of procrastination is that people don't recognize that they busy themselves with insignificant thing. They're unable to start on their dreams because they have to go to the bank, do the laundry, go to the store and generally run around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Without really focusing on a few core activities and making sure those are the first things to get done, we can watch 2,5, even 10 years go by without accomplishing anything significant.

People throw out their big dreams either because they don't identify what their big dream is, or if they have, then they're "too busy" to take action.

"As soon I get this done..." That's the habitual mind doing its thing...and next week it's the same words.

To get beyond this, you must understand and be able to apply the 80/20 Rule. It goes like this: 20% of what you do gets you 80% of your results.

This is sometimes referred to as the Pareto principle.

This applies to your finances, business, happiness, and relationships. Only 20% of your actions will give you 80%...so the goal is to figure out what those 20% activities are and focus on them and stop focusing on the other 80% that are getting you nowhere.

By simply applying this principle, you are able to put four times the time and energy into the things that get you all of your results...This means that you can get a 400% increase in your results!

Why would you spend 80% of your time doing things that don't give you the result you want? People ask me all the time, "I'm just starting to make it, so should I hire an assistant?" And I say"Why not?" And they say "Because that will take a lof of my profit."

If you have a system that is beginning to work, why not step on the gas now? Why not bring someone in to do the leg work and free you up for the money work? That is trading pennies for dollars.

If you don't have time to focus on your business or dreams because you're going to the dry cleaners, then that's just not intelligent. And that's not how successful people work.

Why don't I do the small tasks myself? Why do I have people doing these kinds of things for me? Because I'm lazy?

No. I am rich because I have a system and long ago figured out if I spent my time focusing on result-oriented activities, then my success came faster and in bigger chunks.

Bottom line: Decide what you want, determine what stops you from doing it and then focus your effort on doing the 20% THAT GIVES you 80% of your results.

Secret 6: How To Keep Your Energy High.

Let's talk about another ability that all wealthy people have in common...

I haven't ever met a highly successful person who didn't have tons of energy. I've never met an apathetic, low-motivation self-made millionaire. To be successful and achieve your goals, you've got to be able to generate and manage massive amount of energy.

So, what is a good way to boost your energy when the times get tough?

For me it's about the recognition that there are two kinds of energy: there is energy that is physical and energy that is mental and emotional.

Physical Energy

Your physical energy can be managed by making sure you're in decent physical condition. I'm not saying you have to be super buff or Arnold in his prime. You do have to be in good shape and your metabolism has to be running at the proper rate for you to feel energetic.

To achieve this, you need to work out, bring your heart rate up, and establish a normal fitness routine at least 3-4 dyas a week for at least 30 minustes per day.

Another major factor in raising your physical energy is managing your breath. You need to breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe, and breathe.

Our lungs have the capacity to hold 7 pints of oxygen, but most people only have 1 pint of oxygen in their lungs at any given moment...They're simply not taking deep breaths.

Our life force is energy and breath is the connection to our life force. (You can live weeks without eating, but only minutes without breathing.)

So, since you're going to be breathing for the rest of your life, you may as well make the most of it!

Make sure during the time you need it most, when things are at  their worst, you focus on diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe with your belly going out on the inhale, and the belly coming in on the exhale. This will get the full breath into your lungs and that life force will increase your energy.

The final key to managing your physical energy is getting enough sleep. We talk about sleep patterns and some of the methodolog surrounding sleep at Extreme Health, as well and some of the very big mistakes and some of the biggest reasons you don't sleep well.

You'd be amazed how many people are in bed for 8 hours and get a bad night's sleep and don't even know it.

Getting sleep is very important for regeneration. If you don't let your body regenerate it will fall apart. Cells must have to have time to regenerate and the best time to regenerate is when you're sleeping.

If you know you only have 5 hours of sleep, then do that...But if you realize that you need 8 hours of sleep, then for goodness sake arrange your schedule to accommodate that.

Mental and Emotional Energy

Your energy level is very strongly affected by your mental and emotional state. It can quickly be depleted by upsets, anger, disappointments, sadness, boredom, long meetings or mental fatigue from working on a tough problem.

The first thing is you have to find balance; make specific time to recreate and to relax...

This is so important because your parasympathetic systems (your nerves) (副交感神經) get frazzled... and if you frazzle them too much they become frazzle forever.

Warning: Nothing, nothing nothing depletes your mental energy faster than doing something you don't enjoy or are bored with. It's impossible to feel low energy when you're passionate and excited...So choose wisely, choose what you love to do.

But the reality is there will still be times when your energy is just low, and you need to be able to bring it back up.

A major part of managing your mental/emotional state is learning to keep an optimistic outlook. All highly successful people are optimists.

Let me ask you something...Is thinking something is going to work out well vs. not well true or false, right or wrong?

It's neither.

But it's more supportive to your mental outlook to expect the best than to think, "It's gonna be a dog fight and I don't wanna do this."

If you're pessimistic, you're draining your energy and that's not supportive to your mental health. Being positive and being an optimist is 10 times more advantageous.