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"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. -- Bill Gates\n\n\nRemember Four Daily Tasks? No matter how crazy or "complicated" you try to make your productivity and time management, this is what always keeps me productive:\n\n \t10 minute early morning, 40 minute morning, 40 minute early afternoon, 40 minute afternoon\n \tthree day window: forget about the 100 item to-do list or 4-week plan. What's this week?\n \tdegrees of doneness: no chipping away, starting, continuing. What did you finish?\n \taccountability & encryption: list out the acronyms of what you're going to do\n \tdistractions: don't check your phone, email, Twitter, or the news (it will find you)\n\nPrinciple #1:\xa0Complete For Now / Minimum Viable Product\n\n \tKeep it simple. Don't fool yourself into thinking complicated is better, or 100x half finished things are better than 1 finished thing (don't replicate the mistakes) -- get the bugs out\n \tAbundance mindset: there's enough room for everybody. A rising tide lifts all boats.\n \tContinuous learning, childlike curiosity\n \tThe Kid Test / The Mom Test: Can you describe what you're doing (list building, FB fan pages, Amazon FBA, etc.) to a five-year old?\n \tIt's okay to spend way more time taking action than spending time thinking\n\nPrinciple #2: Publish 100 Actions\n\n \t100 blog posts, 100 YouTube videos, 100 Kindle books, 100 podcast episodes (but COMPLETE one at a time)\n \t100 Days: Give it at least 3 months (100 days) of consistent daily action (and make some progress every day)\n \tMake some money as fast as possible as encouragement for you to keep going\n \tAppointment based business\n \tIf you don't have your own system & schedule, everyone will pull you in all directions.\n \tDon't plan it out ahead of time, but "put out" 100 things\n \tCompletion (day 1 isn't when you start learning, it's when your first "thing" is published)\n \tRepetitions. Fail forward fast. Do what most people won't do.\n \tYou can't learn to drive by reading the owner's manual 1000 times.\n \tHave a morning routine to get a jump on the day and do what matters before things distract you\n\nPrinciple #3: The Light at the End of the Tunnel\n\n \tKnow exactly what you're building towards (i.e. 20 sales a day, 5k/month Fiverr income)\n \tImplement and experiment.\n \tDon't learn just to learn, re-teach or criticize.\n \tFocus on just one thing at a time. Improve just one variable.\n\nPrinciple #4: Data Scientist\n\n \tTrack your efforts and results in a spreadsheet\n \tMarketplace Need: Create blog posts, videos, podcasts, products, courses that deliver on what people are asking for\n \tCrack the code: make all the mistakes, correct them, streamline that checklist (remove instead of add), stop doing what isn't working\n \tTrack it: You're fooling yourself into think you're doing so much\n\nPrinciple #5: Computer Programmer Mentality\n\n \tbreak the problem down into manageable sub-problems or milestones.\n \tIt's ok to admit you don't know. Find out what you need to know!\n \tSome questions have no answer, or just aren't important.\n \tDon't look for so many questions. Find "a" path to get where you need to go.\n\nPrinciple #6: Rough Numbers\n\n \tKnow your rough numbers (this is how 4DT came out, number of help desk tickets answered, clicks from emails, webinar attendees)\n \tEmbrace the Chaos: you need some degree of "messiness" in your business. JVZoo, RAP, multiple membership sites instead of one\n \tSeparate the forest from the trees\n\nPrinciple #7: Get a Coach\n\n \tAdmit when you don't know something: don't "juggle" it all in your head\n \tSee what someone more successful than you is doing.\n \tKnow what the "next" problem is that you're solving. Know how to ask a real question.\n \tRole Modeling & Anti Role Modeling: what would X do in this situation? and what would this unsuccessful person say about this?\n\nPitfalls to Stay Away From\n\n \tDon't go down the rabbit hole: learning to program when you just wanted to create an e-book