How to be Productive and Self-loving at the same time : 5 productivity tips for coaches
I felt drawn to create this episode after seeing too many of us glorify productivity whilst chucking our mental and emotional health aside.
I'm sharing 5 productivity tips for coaches and entrepreneurs which allow you to achieve your business goals with minimal burnout.
Across this episode, I offer tips and strategies to help you maintain your productivity without compromising your well-being.
Below is a summary of the strategies I shared in the podcast episode and Youtube video.
#Self-loving Productivity Tip 1 : Know your ‘Peak Work Time’:
Understanding your peak work time is crucial for optimizing productivity without burning out. It starts with recognising the period of the day when you are most creative and motivated. This can stretch between 3 to 4 hours and varies from person to person. When you identify this peak time, you can schedule intense, mental-draining tasks during this period. Leveraging your most productive hours for demanding activities such as strategizing, writing, or creating content can boost your productivity alot.
#Self-loving Productivity Tip 2 : Leverage on Your Strengths and Interests
Another tip that I can share with you to be productive without burning out is to leverage on your strengths and your interests. If you see a vlogger or a business or a coach or another business person vlogging twice a week or releasing podcast episodes every day or, I don't know, creating reels every day, there's a very high chance that they enjoy doing these things.
They may enjoy being on video. They enjoy speaking in a speaking into a mic. They enjoy writing, and they leverage on their interests and their strengths to be productive. So naturally, if you are someone who is good with writing, you're going to take maybe 15 minutes to craft a script for your podcast episode. Whereas someone who is not a natural at writing or who does not enjoy writing, may take about 3 hours to craft a single podcast episode. Be aware of your strengths and your interest and and, outsource the rest.
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#Self-loving Productivity Tip 3: Plan Your Days in 24 hours in advance:
Another tip I want to share with you is to plan your days at least 24 hours beforehand. You may realize that planning and strategising take much of your mental energy.
So if you plan your days at least 24 hours beforehand, all you need to do today is just execute. And that makes you incredibly productive. You're not wasting hours and your mental energy and mental capacity planning what to do. You're just executing today. You've done all the planning and all that mental work yesterday.
So that is one way for you to be incredibly productive. And when you plan, you need to be really specific. For example, if you want to batch-write 3 emails to your subscribers today, yesterday, you should be writing in very specific detail what you're going to write in each and every email so that today you are just executing. Merely writing and scheduling them out. So that is how we can be productive, which is to be is to plan ahead with as much specific details as possible.
#Self-loving Productivity Tip 4: Follow Your Natural Rhythm and Intuition:
This concept introduces the idea of following your natural rhythm and intuition for the day. It involves tuning into your inner guidance to determine your daily priorities and tasks. This method requires a deep sense of trust and self-awareness. I have elaborated on this a little more in the video version of this blog post.
#Self-loving Productivity Tip 5: Let go of perfectionism
The next step that I want to share with you is to let go of your perfectionism because perfectionism slows us down, and it definitely affects our productivity.
If you're a perfectionist, there's a very high chance that you prefer to do all sorts of research before you start doing something new. But the thing is we are always learning, and we are always works in progress.
The thing about letting go of perfectionism is to be okay that you're doing your best with what you have at this point of time and to trust that the work you produce is going to be very helpful to your clients and customers at this point of time. And it's good to bear in mind that making mistakes is how we learn. There is no way for us to create the perfect book or the perfect course or the perfect offer or the perfect program.
Over time, we will always be tweaking our products and services. We will always be tweaking and making them better. So as we make mistakes, it's how we learn, and it's also good for us to remember that the most successful people in this world make more mistakes than we do.
If you want a done-for-you productivity master class which you can release to your clients, audience and customers, you can head here.
You can edit the slides, edit the workbook, and also edit the transcript to suit your audience, or you can use the done-for-you masterclass as it is. It's ready to go - you can immediately launch that master class right now and sell the replays, or you can add your own voice to it to it.
You can add your own slides, add a few slides of your own and add an extra lesson or add an extra worksheet if you want. It's editable with Canva.
Take care and may you have a productive and meaningful day today.
Shikah
