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Pain VS Gain Tasks

Published on Feb 02, 2016

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Pain VS Gain Tasks

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Productivity

Focus on Moving Forward
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Steve McClatchy in Success Magazine Feb 2015

Work Smarter, Reduce Your stress and Lead by Example
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Write His Book - Decide

  • Move Towards Gain
  • or Prevent Pain
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Gain Tasks 90% Results

  • Goals
  • Learning a new language
  • Writing a book
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Prevent Pain 10% Results

  • Taking out garbage
  • Survival tasks to your brain ...which is more sensitive to these
  • We focus on prevent pain, but they repeat...you never really complete them!
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We get 10 Compliments and 1 Negative comment and we focus on the Negative!

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How to GEt Unstuck

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Gain Tasks- Only WE can Do Them!

  • Eg...Getting an MBA...lack urgency but when we do them they produce significant results.
  • Remember them for a long time.
  • Also we can't delegate them
  • These create the balance and improvement in our lives

Difference between Delegation or Dumping

  • Saving time Vs Gettting it done Better
  • Is someone more talented than you? Can they do it better? What else can you do with the additional time?
  • If you get an additional month of time for your business...then delegate
  • If we are improving our life, work and relationships, it's awesome

To Do List Vs Calendar

  • Check something before you decide...
  • To Do list is after we have decided to do it!
  • Calendar you check before you decide if you can do it.
  • Pu
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Putting Gain Into Your Life

3 Steps: We schedule, We Defend, Neglect Pain Tasks
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Never a time You have No Prevent Pain Tasks to Do

So We Make Time....
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Make Time...

You are falling behind on your prevent pain tasks...You Have to Play Catch UP!
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Prioritize To Do List Are for Speed

Calendar Are for: Schedule, Defend, and Neglect Tasks
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Procrasination

  • Tasks we don't like
  • Psychology...I am going to wait...as I get close to the deadline...then apology...so close to deadline...those consequences are so great ...get scared...We motivate ourselves by fear...Brilliant strategy to motivate us to do things we don't want to do!
  • Deadline, Consequences, Fear, Do ...Then we will never do Gain Tasks cause there is no
  • Procrasination creates pressure...but you don't get quality with this motivation.

Value of Time- How we See its Value

  • Third Tool...Habits..to execute those tasks.
  • If we can see the Value of a minute...delegate a task
  • Relationships can only handle so much until you need to
  • Right way of executing so that they take less time and less drama

Interruptions - How to Manage 3 Main Reasons

  • They want you to to something
  • They want a quick Fact or statistic or piece of information
  • They need an appointment
  • So...To Do or AN Appointment or quick exchange of information
  • Key is to steer the person to one of the 3 reasons.

* To Do Task
* Make Appointment
*Quick Exchange of Information

Excuse Me Do You Have A Minute - Tell the Person What is being interrupted....

I'm at the grocery store, I'm doing a market analysis, 
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Consistency Or Sustainability- Stay on Track

  • Calendar. Is all about structure!
  • To Do List is about motivation, discipline and will power
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Burnout Comes from Too Much Maintance

  • Not achievable ...never run out of prevent pain. Brain has overpriortized maintance tasks.
  • Calendar snaps us out of our thinking.
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Vacation...we have a tough time switching...

Have To's Are Easier

When Want To's Are Near By!
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Brain says,"Let's do Prevent Pain Tasks First."

When we have GAIN in our life, prevent pain tasks are easier.

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How...The CALENDAR...

SCHEDULE IT and DEFEND IT!
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Defend the Gain Tasks that make Life Better

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Power of OUR Decisions

  • Brainstorm Your Ideas for Making Your Life Better....2 minutes...Every Goal You would love to achieve....
  • Then pull out your calendar
  • Energy from Endorphins...after the gym...after the task is completed...
  • To Do Lists...give us a sense of accomplishment...
  • Gain Tasks - Give us our Identity
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Take Out Your Phone

Brainstorm Your Goals, Start Your To Do List!
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