Activity Leads to Productivity

Activity Leads to Productivity

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Welcome back to the Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Hey, did you realize that it is never too late to start living the life that you were meant to live? I hope you do. I hope you do. I just got done working out, and I had a quick thought that I wanted to share with you today for our morning motivation.

And it's on the, it's on the heels of a pretty big launch that I'm doing on a product that we're doing out in in Texas. I'm surrounded by some amazing people.

I'm working with individuals that are really making it happen, and it brought up a thought that I want you to think about and it's this topic of activity leads to productivity.

Activity leads to productivity. What do I mean by that? What's the purpose behind that thought? Here's the deal. I've been thinking about why most individuals feel they don't have the results they want. 'cause one of the comments or the questions that I ask most people when I first start working with them, whether it's consulting, mentoring as a mentor or actually a paid mentor, I always ask the question, are you where you wanna be?

And if not, why? In other words, what results are you trying to get in life? And what I've always found is that the real and it's quote unquote real issue that causes most people to not get the results in their life is a lack of activity. I. Not productivity and results. In other words, you're, you are not getting the results you want in your life, but it's most likely boils back down to your activity.

So what why is that the case? Most people, they're focused on the wrong thing. They're thinking to themselves I've gotta find something with purpose and passion. I need to develop more skills to get more results. I need to focus more, to get more results. Maybe you're thinking. I just haven't found the right strategy yet.

I haven't found the right thing. Is it real estate? Is it stock? Is it a business? Is it my passion? But whether you're trying to create results through your focus, your purpose, your passion, your skills, your strategies, I'm here to tell you that 99% of the time, you're simply lacking progress.

You're simply lacking progress because what you've gotta realize is that on the road to results or on the road of productivity and process and progress, you'll learn to focus. You'll learn to find your passion. You'll learn to find that right strategy, but you won't find any of that if you're not moving.

And some of you're moving in the wrong direction in the first place. So the real issue, I believe, is the real issue behind why you don't have the results you have is because you don't have enough activity.

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Identifying the Right Activity

Now, with that said, you're probably thinking the right, the same thing I want to talk about, and that is what's the right activity because there is a right activity.

Now let me rephrase that. The right activity is something that has specific intent. In other words, if you're just running around doing things, that's not the activity I'm talking about. I'm talking about activity that has a target. There's a lot of different ways to get to the same destination, but as long as you have a target and you're moving, you're gonna figure out your way to get there.

So you just gotta ask yourself a very simple question. What's the number one thing I can do? That's gonna take me closer to my goal, not what's the thing that's gonna get my goal. So many of you don't have the patience and time, and what you've gotta realize is that it's just simply what's the number one thing that's gonna take me in the direction of my goal?

Some of you, that's daily rituals. Some of you, it's just physically moving, it's getting movement. Some of you, it's just getting around the right people, but what's the activity you can do? What's the big domino, as Gary Keller likes to talk about in his book, the one thing. What's the big domino that if you knock it over, it's gonna knock all the rest of the dominoes down.

So not only do I want you to focus on activity, but I want you to focus on activity that has specific intent, and I wanna give you a couple of other suggestions to think about and consider. One is.

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Creating Incentives for Activity

Create incentives for your activity because it's not just enough to be active and with a target, you've gotta motivate yourself.

You, I've found over and over in time and time again that you've gotta motivate the short term when you don't have the discipline and consistency to make it happen. Because it's human nature, we all have the ability to lose focus, to lose attention, to lose motivation. Be and keep in mind, motivation is a short term thing.

You can only motivate yourself so long and you can only discipline until you create habits so long. So willpower is a very short-lived. Type of characteristic or skill that you can kinda learn. I think willpower is a skill, but when you motivate yourself and find incentives, let me give you an example of this.

So I've had several call centers or sales teams in the past, and when we're not getting the results we want, instead of pushing hard and throwing out incentives and cash incentives and things to motivate them to get more sales. I back it all the way up to the activity. So I used to, in a, in just incentivize sales and we, when we weren't getting that and I needed to create momentum, I would back it up and say it's the number of presentations that you're gonna give on your product that's gonna create a sale.

But then I'd back it up further and I'd say, but you have to have appointments in order to make presentations. And then I'd back it up again and I'd say, but you're only gonna get appointments. If you do the context or the dials on an hourly basis. So what I would do to start creating momentum, and listen to me real carefully here, if you want to create some momentum with your activity, which will lead to results, I.

Incentivize the very basic, fundamental principle, the domino, the one thing that you think is gonna motivate. So in, in the case of these call centers, I would go with the highest productivity for dials or for contacts or for reaching out to customers, because I know that would lead to appointments, which would lead to presentations, which would lead to sales if you're in sales or business at all.

It's just a numbers game. So I what the message here is create incentives. For you motivation behind specific intent of activities that'll create the results.

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Tracking and Measuring Progress

The one other thing I wanna mention to you is that you've got to track your activity. You've gotta have a scorecard. If you don't have a scorecard and track the right activity, don't you know you've gotta track your activity that you're doing.

Because here's the thing, you know as well as I do that what you measure grows. What you focus on, you'll get results. It's that saying where focus goes, energy flows, right? So you've gotta focus and you've gotta track. And the best way to do that is a scorecard or a KPI, key performance indicators.

So track the number of things you're doing, how often you're doing them, because you will be surprised. I even do this at my level at times, and I will track my calendar or my activities or the number of contacts and things I'm doing in business. And sometimes it's an eyeopener. You may realize, you may think you are busy and active, but you are really not active on the right things.

And so having a scorecard allows you to make sure that you're doing the right things. And so you've gotta have a target. You've gotta have a destination, but you've gotta track the activity on the way to that destination.

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Final Thoughts and Encouragement

Now, one final thought I wanna leave you with, and that is I want you to remind yourself.

To measure the gain, not the gap between where you are and where your goal is. See, we all have a goal or a destination, and the challenge is most people that are unproductive, they measure the gap they have between where they are and where their goal is. And it seems like a long ways. And so we get impatient and we try to skip and we try to take shortcuts because we're measuring this gap.

But remember, if we focus on activity. Then what you wanna do is you wanna measure the gain. Because if you look back at where you started and you recognize how far you've come, it will actually motivate you to continue to go see. It's that whole abundant versus scarcity mentality. Are you, is the glass half empty or is the glass half full?

Are you this far away from your goal or have you made this much progress? So measuring the gain is key. So let me sum this up for you again real quick. We're talking about if you want to get results in your life, focus on the activities. The activities will get you there, but make sure there are activities that have specific intent.

And that will lead you towards your goal. Then learn to motivate and create incentives for yourself and track those things on a scorecard or in some type of a way of reporting and tracking your activity. If you do that and you learn to measure the gain and your goal now, and this is this process of measuring progress, see, success in my mind is progress, not destination.

When you attach your success to a destination, most of the times in life, you're not there. And when you get there, you're left feeling empty. So measure the progress, and all of a sudden things will shift for you. I think you'll find you'll get more and more results. You can absolutely create your best life if you start to measure your activity and your progress.

You have everything you need right now. You don't need anything else. Everything else you need to get progress, you'll get along the way.

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Closing Remarks and Call to Action

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Have an amazing day. I look forward to talking with you soon.