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Boost productivity by 400%!
Years ago I watched a gardening video titled something like 'fill your garden bed for free!'. I, like most people am always eager to save a dollar so I watched it, only to be sorely disappointed. While I had hoped it would include cool gardening techniques that would help save money, in reality, the fellow in the video had basically click baited me. When he said 'fill it for free', what he meant was 'I didn't pay a cent this week, because I actually bought all the things I needed a while back and now I'm finally using what I paid for'.
While the video itself annoyed me at the time, it came to mind when I was thinking about how to initiate this post without sounding like a self-help influencer.
I'm not here to lie to you. Nor to push you to buy anything, post more, join an email list or any of the other things that go hand in hand with the myriad of courses that keep popping up on my social media feeds now I've had the thought to get out of my current 9 to 5 as soon as possible.
However, I can genuinely claim I boosted my productivity in the last few weeks, and have been able to quadruple the stock in my online store. I can, and will, even tell you how.
I found myself with extra hours in the day recently and made my goal of creating 150 new products, the priority for those hours. Much like my gardening muse though, I didn't sit down and research, design and create 150 new products completely from scratch one by one. That would have been a colossal amount of time, certainly more than the hours I found myself with.
I created a finished product in 20 minutes!
There it is, my wild claim. I can open one document, fiddle around a bit, type some things and have something sellable, in less than half an hour.
True? Yes.
Unbelievable? Maybe. I
mpossible? No.
You might be thinking a 20 minute idea or product sounds like a piece of rubbish, no one is buying that. And you'd be correct. If my products looked like they only took 20 minutes to put together, they wouldn't sell. Partly because they wouldn't be worth the money and partly because my buyers would ask themselves why they couldn't just create it themselves.
So again, I have a list, a spreadsheet, that I ticked off when I completed each document. And in a few cases I timed my progress because I was curious. The 20 minutes does not include the time it took to research the topic. It doesn't include formatting and designing the look of the document. It doesn't include the time taken to compile lists of key terms, clip art and write appropriate texts to turn into sellable resources.
Do I sound like I'm lying in my claim now?
The time taken to get from idea to product, is never going to be 20 minutes. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something, likely to you, for a price you're not willing to pay.
However, I guarantee you, there are many moments in your day or week that are sailing by unused. While you cannot bank spare moments for a later date, you can certainly use them wisely while you have them.
This can, and will, likely be a whole post at a later stage. But my point is, if you plan, ponder and record your ideas, research and moments of inspiration when they strike, you can return to them later when you have the time or inclination.
The research and planning I did to be able to create 20 minute products was months in the making. Not because it took me months of several hours a day weeks to compile. Instead, it was found moments across the week or month where I could sit and focus and start to research a niche, look at comparable products, consider what kind of topics and resources I could create, and actually start writing and storing content for later use.
Boosting your productivity and momentum in a tangible way can absolutely be done. I know this, because I have done it. If you stick around I can share with you how. And if you have questions or ideas of your own to share, I'm here for that too.
I will continue to share the outcome of my momentum as it happens and my hope is that you will too and that this will turn into a place you come to get things done, and so do I. I'm no better that you, just maybe slightly more organised this week than you. But I will have moments of self doubt and lack of motivation, and so will you. But I'll share those moments with you too, and keep moving forward despite them.
Come along with me?
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