Listed here are my notes on Darren Hardy's seminar called insane productivity course. Darren Hardy is just a speaker, author and publisher of Success Magazine. This presentation was given 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 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 categories of people if 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 is 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 way of being a Super Achiever. Especially in modern times the number one thing you need to know is to control your attention. We must have the ability to scale our skills at exactly the same rate that we are scaling progress in our society. We must learn how to weed out unneeded solicitations on our time. It's not what Super Achiever's do which makes them successful. It's what they don't really do. You've to master saying “no”. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “For every 100 great opportunities that are brought if you ask me, I say no 99 times”. Steve Jobs said, “Deciding what not to do can be as important as deciding what things to do”. It doesn't help to do something efficiently that we should not need been doing at all. We must be great at a few things rather than average at many. We must “give up” on certain things to produce room for time for you to be great at several things. Some items on Hardy's “give up” list were television, news, watching sports, music, body building, and mechanics. Take that time for you 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 items that matter the most for the career. There could be activities that have plenty of steps but just a few of the steps are vital that want your specific great skill. Leave the remainder to the team to complete. Concentrate on the things that make the money. In real estate he centered on prospecting and negotiating the sale though there are numerous steps that are needed as part of the process. Figure out what your 3 vital functions are and spend 90% of your own time on that and either delegate or discontinue the rest. What's the main one activity that you do well that most impacts your success. A function can be an activity that you've do. A priority would be the over-arching goal. Concentrate on a maximum of 3 strategic priorities. We're distracted once every 3 minutes but it requires us 11 minutes to get back to a situation of concentration. There's no true multi-tasking. What you are really doing is switching back and forth from multiple tasks. It has actually be shown to reduce your intelligence. Don't mistake activity for productivity. You can't be concentratingly productive for significantly more than 90 minutes at a time. You've to isolate yourself from distractions, you'll need to employ a countdown clock and then you need certainly to recover. The vital metrics would be the 3 goals you'll need to achieve to complete your objective. Only focus on those 3 goals. What are the 2 or 3 things needed to complete those goals? Then track those tasks on an everyday basis. We must 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 should change and improve. Learn less and study more. What's your #1 goal and what's the #1 skill necessary to reach that goal? Once a fraction he centers on that skill by reading 5 books, playing 3 CDs or DVDs and attending 1 seminar. Each morning he reads for 30 minutes and while his driving, walking or exercising he listens to mp3 audiobooks for 30 minutes. Of each and every dollar your take advantage 10% to simply help others and 10% to simply help yourself. You've to fail to succeed. You can't hesitate of failure. Note, I'm uncertain what the second “5” is in the formula.
Hardy is a good speaker. He offers you the information he promises. Many speakers just give you one teaser after another to keep you listening but there is never any payoff. Hardy offers you the information he promises in a timely manner with a method that is light and engaging. He provides personal stories but he doesn't drag them on or get side-tracked. I would highly recommend him for seminars and speaking engagements.
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