Below are my notes on Darren Hardy's seminar called Insane Productivity. Darren Hardy is a speaker, author and publisher of Success Magazine. This presentation was presented with at a Trans America conference.
In the 1930's Andrew Carnage commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview people like Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, King Gillette, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, William Wrigley, John D Rockefeller, and Harvey Firestone. Hill became the publisher of Success magazine. In 2007 Darren Hardy became the publisher of Success and got to interview people like Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Tony Hawk, Steve Jobs, Harrison Ford, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. You can find 4 types of people in the event that you made 4 boxes with the vertical axis being Results and the Horizontal being Time and Effort you would get: Low Results-Low Effort that is the Unengaged, Low Results-High Effort could be the Over Motivated Underachiever, High Results-High Effort could be the Over Whelmed Overachiever and High Results-Low Effort could be the Super Achiever. Distractions are what's in how of being a Super Achiever. Especially in modern times the top thing you need to find out is to manage your attention. We have to manage to scale our skills at exactly the same rate that individuals are scaling progress in our society. We have to learn to weed out unneeded solicitations on our time. It's not what Super Achiever's do that produces them successful. It is what they don't really do. You have to perfect saying “no”. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “For each 100 great opportunities that are brought in my experience, I say no 99 times”. Steve Jobs said, “Deciding what not to complete is really as important as deciding things to do”. It doesn't help to complete something efficiently that individuals should not have been doing at all. We have to be great at a few things in place of average at many. We have to “give up” on certain things to make room for time for you to be great at a few things. Some items on Hardy's “give up” list were television, news, watching sports, music, body building, and mechanics. Take that time for you to master the skills you want. You can find vital few functions, vital few priorities, vital few metrics and vital few improvements. The vital few functions are those issues that matter the most for the career. There could be activities which have a lot of steps but only some of the steps are vital that require your specific great skill. Leave the others to the team to complete. Focus on things that make the money. In real estate he focused on prospecting and negotiating the sale though there are lots of steps that are needed included in the process. Figure out what your 3 vital functions are and spend 90% of your own time on that and either delegate or discontinue the rest. What's the main one activity that you excel that many impacts your success. A function can be an activity that you've do. A priority will be the over-arching goal. Focus on a maximum of 3 strategic priorities. We're distracted once every 3 minutes but it takes us 11 minutes to get back to a situation of concentration. There's no true multi-tasking. Everything you are actually doing is switching back and forth from multiple tasks. It's actually be proven to lower your intelligence. Don't mistake activity for productivity. You can't be Concentra tingly productive for significantly more than 90 minutes at a time. You have to isolate yourself from distractions, you need to employ a countdown clock and then you need to recover. The vital metrics will be the 3 goals you need to attain to perform your objective. Only give attention to those 3 goals. What are the 2 or 3 things needed to perform those goals? Then track those tasks on a daily basis www.ggmoneyonline.com. We have to set our “Personal Development Set Point” higher. That is our standard for things like health, money, and relationships. For things to improve and improve you should change and improve. Learn less and study more. What's your #1 goal and what's the #1 skill necessary to achieve that goal? Once a quarter he centers around that skill by reading 5 books, hearing 3 CDs or DVDs and attending 1 seminar. Every day he reads for 30 minutes and while his driving, walking or exercising he listens to audio books for 30 minutes. Of each dollar your take advantage 10% to help others and 10% to help yourself. You have to neglect to succeed. You can't hesitate of failure. Note, I am not sure what the second “5” is in the formula.
Hardy is a great speaker. He provides you with the information that he promises. Many speakers just offer you one teaser after another to keep you listening but there is never any payoff. Hardy provides you with the information that he promises in a reasonable manner with a method that is light and engaging. He provides personal stories but he doesn't drag them on or get side-tracked. I would highly recommend him for seminars and speaking engagements.
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