The Science of Personal Productivity
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- Describe the power of a schedule in helping you organize your day to focus on important tasks, and explain how simply getting started can be the key to tackling your biggest to-do items.
- Explain how accountability partners and systems can help you avoid blame and shame and instead learn how you spend your time, and how to improve it.
- Describe how practicing forgiveness for your coworkers and having a short memory for your own mistakes can not only improve productivity, but also provide a wealth of health benefits.
- Master the “Graceful No” to help you clarify priorities and focus on productivity over being busy.
- Describe how decluttering your workspace and minimizing distractions can create a productive work environment, and how automating some of your decisions can limit Decision Fatigue.
- Reframe the stories you tell yourself about failures and setbacks so they stop holding you back and instead help you move forward.
- Explain how to make the most of your time spent on communications like email, and how small changes can make for better, more productive meetings.
- Describe how perfectionism is often due to fear of failure, and how embracing “good enough” can actually lead to better results.
Exploring the power of the mind to get more done
Do you start your day by checking your email and then get stuck? Do you let one big task loom over your head and get in the way of your productivity? Do you find yourself saying “Yes” to too many tasks and then not having enough time to do anything well?
If any of these sound like you, this course from Dr. Rebecca Heiss will help you understand more about why we find ourselves in these situations, and teach you practical, science-based ways to be more productive.
Topics covered include:
- Unleashing the power of a schedule
- Implementing accountability
- Practicing forgiveness for your coworkers and yourself
- Mastering the “Graceful No”
- Busting the myth of perfectionism
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