Below are my notes on Darren Hardy's seminar called Insane Productivity. Darren Hardy is really a speaker, author and publisher of Success Magazine. This presentation was handed at a Trans America conference.
In the 1930's Andrew Carnage commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview people like Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, King Gillette, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, William Wrigley, John D Rockefeller, and Harvey Firestone. Hill became the publisher of Success magazine. In 2007 darren hardy success magazine became the publisher of Success and surely got to interview people like Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Tony Hawk, Steve Jobs, Harrison Ford, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. You will find 4 types of people in the event that you made 4 boxes with the vertical axis being Results and the Horizontal being Time and Effort you'd get: Low Results-Low Effort that's the Unengaged, Low Results-High Effort could be the Over Motivated Underachiever, High Results-High Effort could be the Over Whelmed Overachiever and High Results-Low Effort could be the Super Achiever. Distractions are what's in the manner to be a Super Achiever. Especially in modern times the number one thing you need to find out is to manage your attention. We have to have the ability to scale our skills at exactly the same rate that individuals are scaling progress inside our society. We have to learn to weed out unneeded solicitations on our time. It's not what Super Achiever's do that makes them successful. It is what they don't really do. You've to perfect saying “no”. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “For every 100 great opportunities which are brought if you ask me, I say no 99 times”. Steve Jobs said, “Deciding what not to accomplish is as important as deciding what things to do”. It doesn't help to accomplish something efficiently that individuals should not need been doing at all. We have to be great at two things in place of average at many. We have to “give up” on certain things to make room for time and energy to be great at a few things. Some items on Hardy's “give up” list were television, news, watching sports, music, body building, and mechanics. Take that time and energy to master the skills you want. You will find vital few functions, vital few priorities, vital few metrics and vital few improvements. The vital few functions are those things that matter the most for the career. There could be activities that have plenty of steps but only some of these steps are vital that require your specific great skill. Leave the remainder to the team to complete. Give attention to what make the money. In real-estate he centered on prospecting and negotiating the sale though there are numerous steps which are needed included in the process. Determine what your 3 vital functions are and spend 90% of your own time on that and either delegate or discontinue the rest. What's usually the one activity that you prosper that a lot of impacts your success. A function can be an activity that you've do. A priority will be the over-arching goal. Give attention to a maximum of 3 strategic priorities. We're distracted once every 3 minutes but it takes us 11 minutes to return to a situation of concentration. There is no true multi-tasking. Everything you are really doing is switching back and forth from multiple tasks. This has actually be proven to lower your intelligence. Don't mistake activity for productivity. You can't be concentratingly productive for a lot more than 90 minutes at a time. You've to isolate yourself from distractions, you will need to utilize a countdown clock and you then need to recover. The vital metrics will be the 3 goals you will need to reach to accomplish your objective. Only give attention to those 3 goals. What are the 2 or 3 things needed to accomplish those goals? Then track those tasks on a daily basis. We have to set our “Personal Development Set Point” higher. This is our standard for such things as health, money, and relationships. For things to alter and improve you must change and improve. Learn less and study more. What's your #1 goal and what's the #1 skill necessary to achieve that goal? Once a quarter he focuses on that skill by reading 5 books, listening to 3 CDs or DVDs and attending 1 seminar. Every morning he reads for 30 minutes and while his driving, walking or exercising he listens to audiobooks for 30 minutes. Of each and every dollar your make use 10% to simply help others and 10% to simply help yourself. You've to don't succeed. You can't forget of failure. Note, I'm not sure what the second “5” is in the formula.
Hardy is a superb speaker. He provides you with the information he promises. Many speakers just offer you one teaser after another to keep you listening but there's never any payoff. Hardy provides you with the information he promises in a reasonable manner with a method that's light and engaging. He provides personal stories but he doesn't drag them on or get side-tracked. I'd suggest him for seminars and speaking engagements.
