100- New update to Personal Productivity

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In this episode of The Struggling Biz, we deliver the news of a post that is really an addendum to an update for personal productivity. It is for the free availability of a pdf document that is called How to Be More Productive in 2021: 4 Things to STOP and START Doing to Increase Your Output and Reduce Your Stress.

You can go and download the free pdf file from the following link:

https://go.vitalsmarts.com/EM-012121-GTD-BeProductivein2021_Productive2021.html

Normally, I would include the list of the four practices that author Justin Hale promotes in this pdf. However, since the tide of those authors is rising who claim “foul” if any of their content is listed, we recommend that you first go to the link to deliver your email and contact information, so that then you can get access to the free pdf in the manner originally intended.

My reflections on the content of this document for entrepreneurs, startups and small business owners is quite simple.

This update is just a reminder to follow along the precepts from the book Getting Things Done. Now, since I, myself, had been an instructor from 1995 to 2017 for personal productivity (then called “time management”) for both companies like Time Systems, Inc. and Q4Systems, Inc., as well as my own course on personal productivity (which was a podcast course from 2007 to 2017), I am familiar with these concepts and had included them in my courses (but under different names). In fact, my course was originally a 6-month podcast course that originally had been one of the courses listed in the original PremiumCast system in 2007 (which has changed to another system in 2009). But my course contained those elements — and more. I considered that my course actually delivered more concepts and better content for helping the small business owner, startup or entrepreneur and podcaster gain new skills in:

accomplishing more
in less time
with better quality
and reduced stress.

However, my course was blindsided with new technology from Apple in 2010, when it announced and delivered the first iPhone with its apps. Everyone in the podosphere looked to the new device as the “shiny new toy” and demanded that personal productivity training (which was already in the podosphere) be delivered by small apps. And thus, this was the death knell for my podcast on personal productivity and time management.

To this date, no app has been able to do this. And I feel that I, personally, have not seen or encountered any other program that was as complete as my own course, which was called GAIN CONTROL OF YOUR DAY.

The result: I still see people fumbling around with apps or other devices or forms that attempt to focus on one or more items in the world of personal productivity — including the book cited above.

However, I found out that my lost cause will not be redeemed, for the users of apps in smartphones will never be able to be structured enough to learn the real processes of personal productivity, nor will they ever have the patience of learning the steps to accomplish what I had been teaching for so many years. They think that a 30-minute app will do for them, and their impatience will be their downfall for never achieving the true process of personal productivity or time management.

So, although I wish them luck to try and approach such a goal, I do feel grateful for the people who did purchase my course or take my training and have stuck with it to achieve real, productive results in their work and lives (in fact, one student had gained a 25 per cent increase in productivity and time savings by using the processes that I taught).

So, before you claim your productivity savings in time, please be advised that the claims of your vendor may not be first class or top production results.

Thank you for your attention.