your productive brain review · brain dump personal professional friends & family birthdays...
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Phil Dobson
YOUR PRODUCTIVEBRAIN
PRODUCTIVITY: How to develop your produc:vity and effec:veness
RESILIENCE: How to sustain your performance under pressure
FOCUS: How to strengthen your focus and regulate your emo:ons
CREATIVITY: How to develop your crea:vity and problem solving skills
IMPACT: How to improve your communica:on skills and interpersonal effec:veness
LEARNING: How to ensure learning con:nues and behavioural change is sustained
PEAK PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
BUSY / PRODUCTIVE / EFFECTIVE
WORKING SMART
1. SET GOALS
2. DO 80/20 ANALYSIS
3. MORE MVTs / LESS LVTs
4. MANAGE MENTAL ENERGY
5. FOCUS ATTENTION
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
3 YEAR / 1 YEAR / QUARTER
1: Goals
2: 80/20 Analysis
20% :me
80% :me
80% results
20% results
MVTs
LVTs
M T W T F
3: 1-3 MVTs / Day
Energy vs Attention
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4: Mental Energy - Circadian Meeting culture
4: Mental Energy - Ultradian 5: Attention
no switching
Multi-tasking
no switchingswitching switching
numerical manipula:on tasks le]er manipula:on tasks
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rror
5: Distractions - External
5: Distractions - Internal Brain Dump
● Empty your P.F.C. ● Do not try to order, sort or prioritise ● Everything that is on, or in your mind ● Work and 'non-work' ● Free up your attention and mental energy
Brain Dump
personal professional
friends & family birthdays & events
home admin errands
bank & financial insurance
tech backups holidays learning
books & films leisure & hobbies
email replies phone calls follow up
things to chase wai:ng for mee:ngs
project next steps projects to begin
things to communicate business development
strategy
PROJECT 1
'INBOX'
PROJECT 2
MVT
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
CALENDAR
3 minute rule
SOMEDAY
'Mind Sweep'
Delete / Delegate
'Brain Sweep'
Empty
PROJECT 1
PROJECT 2
MVT
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
CALENDAR
SOMEDAY
GOAL 1
GOAL 2
GOAL 3
Effective
PROJECT 1
'INBOX'
PROJECT 2
MVT
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
CALENDAR
3 minute rule
SOMEDAY
'Mind Sweep'
Delete / Delegate
'Brain Sweep'
GOAL 1
GOAL 2
GOAL 3
SMART
● SET GOALS
● Year / Quarter / Month / Week
● DO 80/20 ANALYSIS
● MVTs and LVTs
● MORE ON MVTs, LESS ON LVTs
● <3 x MVTs per day
● MANAGE YOUR MENTAL ENERGY
● MVT at peak energy / most important task first
● 60-90 minute sessions + breaks in between
● FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION
● Eliminate distractions - inbox and alerts off
● Brain dump each week
● Practice meditation / mindfulness
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