Rising Tide | Tuesdays Together | September Productivity

September 15, 2016

This month in Rising Tide, our focus in our Tuesday’s Together groups were to speak on productivity. Yes…I’m pretty sure everyone in the world is in need of this!! We all could make the most out of our day and we can all benefit from sharing what works and what doesn’t work to keep us on task.
I was able to make it to both the Appleton meeting and the Green Bay meeting, however….due to the bees that seemed to want to hang out right next to my Starbucks, I was too scared to take out my camera, lol!!! [sorry Emily] But we met up with a smaller group and has some good conversation in downtown Menasha…which by the way is SO adorable!!! You should really check it out. I think it’s a missed opportunity for those in the fox cities area.
A couple hours later, I found myself up in Green Bay at Broken Spoke bike shop with Shaunae, where we had again…some great conversation and I shared something that I share in both meetings.
Multi-tasking – – – – umm…it doesn’t exist! Okay…yup, I said it. It’s one of those false promises that life gives you. Like saying, yeah…of course anyone can win the lottery?? But sadly, I feel like you have a better chance winning the lottery than LEGIT multi-tasking (successfully…that is).
Ever try to talk to someone while you are texting a friend? Or how about reading an email while on the phone?? The fact is, you can really only focus all your energy on one thing at a time. If you are constantly bouncing back and forth from one thing to another, you have to keep mentally switching from one thing to the next and it’s not immediate…it takes your brain time to process. And that time that it takes every time you are going back and forth? It is a whole lot of wasted time. You end up better off doing one thing and completing it, before moving onto the next.
Another thing that has helped me…and which I need to do more often, is to work out. In my 8 hour day, if I take 2 hours to drive to the gym, workout, shower, and drive back home…I find that the remaining 6 hours is WAY more productive than if I just started at hour zero. There are tons of things that a person can do to be more productive and to remove distractions…it’s just a matter of actually doing those things and sticking to it. There are whole books and podcasts and articles and probably even tv spots where they talk about this topic. And it’s not going away anytime soon. So, these are just the two things that I had on my mind when thinking of this topic and we talked about a whole lot more!!! So, if you are a creative and ever want to do and be more, I highly suggest attending a Tuesday’s Together meeting and meeting like-minded creative business owners and sharing and receiving some awesome advice and tips from the mass.

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