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You’re gonna love today’s podcast. Welcome back to success for Srini. Happy Wednesday morning to you. I’ll keep it simple. I’ll keep it precise to the point. Listen, you want to do more things in less time? Then this podcast is going to make sense. More things in less time. Who doesn’t want to do more things in less time? I wish I could do that. I could do a 20-minute podcast in less than two minutes. Maybe possible using ai, ai voice AI algorithms? Maybe it’s possible, but not really. As of now? No. Okay, I still need to record myself I need to speak and do this. Okay, you got to the point.
I want to share three productivity hacks with you today on the show that are going to help you accelerate anything that you’re doing. Here’s what we know. In order to do things much faster in less time, you need to have intense focus, you need to work on your focus. And the only way to increase focus that is through the brain, Genesis neuroplasticity, which means the way the neurons work, they can be trained to work, which means you can train the brain to increase your focus. And there are different tools and techniques to do that meditation helps you hear me talk about it hypnosis, for sure. All that is great. But then there are also things that can be done outside of all this, which will increase focus.
Now, what are the enemies of focus, let’s talk about them, what hinders focus? Well, clearly, distractions, you eliminate distractions, automatically, you increase focus, you operate from a structure. That means it will enhance focus, so you’re focused when you operate on the structure. So numerous times on this podcast, I talked about working with lists, planning the day before the night, or planning the day, the night before. And having monthly weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi yearly goals, and all that. And in the carrier, you need to have that and then you go into specific areas, and each area needs to have its own plan in place. So collectively, as an individual, you’re going to win, and you win in multiple areas of life. So don’t multiple podcasts on this concept on this topic. But I want to share three things today that are very dominant on my mind. The first and foremost thing is using limits. For everything I do, I have a time limit. This podcast has a time limit. This podcast has a date when it will be published which is today you know once this is done recorded, usually one tape recording and no edits. As such, there is an intro there’s an outro. I just press the record button, I record myself, that’s all I do. There is no prep work involved with this. This has a start time this has an end time is this has a processing time this has an upload time. And this has been transcript time all that time. Understood already. So can I precisely time this, I don’t I do not? But I have a time slot for this, which is I’ll record my podcast in under 10 or maybe 15 minutes. never gone beyond 15 minutes, as far as I know in recent times. So this podcast today may be for 10 minutes, maybe for short, under 15 minutes. So I have that scheduled and so I have a time limit. So everything you do should have a time limit. And I do sometimes multiple recordings on different topics altogether, sometimes for webinars, sometimes two for a radio ad, and all that. So I schedule time, sometimes 15 minutes, 15 minutes, I’ll get as many as things done. And I have 15 minutes of audio time already set on my schedule, every day, every other day. And you could set it up for 15 minutes so that you can take a 10-minute rest or you can set up a 25-minute duration and take a five-minute break. And I talked about this very early on at the beginning of this year. I talked about the time block planner, I talked about Cal Newport and his approach to doing this. And I suggest that you go back to the first of January of 2022 and listen to the early podcast on setting goals and specifically structuring tasks and getting things done. Okay, so, time limit. The Case in point, at least for today’s podcast is you got to have a time limit on everything that you’re doing. Okay.
Now, the second part, the second step to productivity is you got to close things. Don’t leave it open. Close. This close example applies to many different aspects of our life. And one aspect of our life is this, if I record this podcast, this is an example, I recorded this podcast I need to edit. Edit means to put an intro put an outro, right, get it transcribed, and get it, the image, the art clipart done for the podcast and recorded and released, sometimes by 7 am, the morning like maybe 10 am In the morning, done and published on the website, right after that, at the same time. Awesome, if you think about it, the process, so I need to close the loop, while I’m also having a time limit. So I cannot leave the loop open. I cannot say that I get to publish the podcast on iTunes. But then I’m going to upload the podcast tomorrow on my website can’t happen like that. It’s not a closed process. And I do close it once whatever I start.
Now, sometimes there are false closes. Sometimes you feel like your podcast recording is podcast recording podcast recording has no end value unless it is published and reaches you. It has no value I recorded leaving it on my laptop, what’s the point. So be careful with false closes in any process that you are engaged in right now. Also, you got to close out things that are distracting you that are taking your attention away. So there was a research done, an average employee opens and Claudius apps 1100 times in a day at work 18 hours toggling between tabs in your browser 18 hours a week, I think, oh, sorry, a month or something like that. So overall 160 hours a year of toggling between tabs of the browser tabs crazy, you start looking at data like this. So close is important. Close the process, but closeout things that are not helping you while you’re in the process. The third productivity hack is a pause. Pause. I press the record button here. I’m recording. I don’t get my ideas, right. I don’t get my communication, right. I don’t get my words, right. I don’t get my intent. Right happens. I pause I go come back. I have to pause. I don’t want to put a mediocre, half-baked in some water here some board there kind of a podcast I cannot do it. Got to be honest with me. At least from my side, I need to put the best effort in you listen to this and you don’t like it, I get it. But at least I need to feel good when I leave the microphone. I need to feel good about myself and what I have done. Not doing it is not dialed in. I’m not dialed in, people can’t I have somebody who I coach now started coaching people how to do radio shows and podcasts. And I’ve been doing that for a while. But then the podcast just got added just now. And the contract for podcasts. They just cannot record they cannot record because they don’t know. You see.
Somebody says I don’t know what to speak. That means they don’t know what they’re speaking about. It’s not a language, it’s not about words. It’s not about none. See, it’s easy for somebody to speak about something when they know it. And they know the topic they know the subject. See if I fabricate let’s say if I come here and say I just want to speak something because I have a podcast that’s called fatigue. You will figure out that I’m not coming from the right place. happened before I’m telling you from experience. See so things are not working pause, go take a break, come back, and pausing is breathing pausing is energy pausing is the recalibration pausing is starting again. And going back to the start line again to kind of take that plunge again or take that trajectory so to speak. So limiting calls to pause three things will increase your focus. And, but just with these three things, you can get more things done in less time.
Okay, under 12 minutes now, with the intro and outro hopefully, we’re done. Done with the podcast today. Thank you for listening. Hopefully, this is helpful if it does me a favor write a review and rate the podcast and share it with a friend or a family member. And you have a question for me. I’m here always for you. That’s all for now take care. Bye.