Name: 3 Steps to Stop Wasting Time and Increase Your Productivity
Uploaded: 2017-06-30T14:26:06.000Z
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  Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching

MarieTV, the place to be to create a business and life you love.

Do you ever have one of those days where it feels like you’re doing a ton of things

but at the end of the day you didn't get anything really important done?

That’s why today I want to show you a simple three-step method to making progress on your

most important work while at the same time training your brain to be more focused.

  You see, we’re living in a time when we

are allowing our brains to be trained to underperform.

We’ve become addicted to checking our phones.

And in doing so we are reducing our ability to stay focused and do the deep, important

work that we’re meant to do in this world.

What do you want to say at the end of the day?

I’m a few emails closer to inbox zero and I clicked like on everybody’s posts?”

I did two hours of really great work on my book or my website or my painting.”

Now, what I’m about to suggest isn’t complicated and it is not time consuming.

But it will require you to take back control of your time.

Take back control of this beautiful brain and trust that your world will not immediately

fall apart if you don't immediately respond to every ding or every buzz or every question

It’s just three simple steps and, I promise, if you use these three steps every single

day you’ll not only get more important work done, but you’ll start breaking the destructive,

addictive behaviors that are killing your brain and your happiness.

  Step number one is do creative work first.

Now, a big mistake that’s really easy to make in today’s world is to try and do all

the little things and knock them out first.

And then you have this fantasy that you’re going to have all this time for the big, important,

But have you ever noticed that this rarely friggin’ works?

  Here’s why trying to do all the little things

Because when you wake up you have this full tank of cognitive fuel.

But what many of us forget is that we only have a finite amount of this super powerful,

And every single time that you make a decision or you resist temptation or exert any kind

of self control, you start to drain your cognitive fuel tank.

I want you to think about it kind of like this.

  “Oh, should I answer this email or keep

Where should I make a reservation for dinner tonight?

Dammit, gotta reschedule that doctor’s appointment.

Do you want to use that limited cognitive fuel on something really important and amazing?

Or do you want to blow your daily wad on a bunch of dumb crap that doesn’t really matter?

So don't try and ignore your phone or ignore the emails or ignore the slack messages or

whatever else that you have that dings and rings and pops up.

That’s like me telling Kuma to ignore this slice of salami.

  Remember what you just learned like two seconds

Resisting temptation is one of the biggest cognitive fuel suckers.

So rather than resist temptation, just eliminate it.

And that means you have to put your entire life on airplane mode.

  Now, obviously turn off all the notifications.

So close all the tabs, close all the windows, turn off the apps, and especially for your

phone I suggest just turning the damn thing off.

However, you’ve also gotta shut off some people too.

And that means that you might have to tell your kids and your spouse and your coworkers

that for the next two hours or one hour or three hours that you don't exist.

  And then finally our favorite step is step

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