Setting Up Productivity Controls with Sebastian Marshall
A few years ago Sebastian Marshall transitioned from earning money as a consultant to starting a charity, and along the way he has honed his productivity systems. Sebastian is the Founder of GiveGetWin.
Sebastian’s Background:
- Worked as a consultant for tech companies
- Specialized in profitability and executive development
- Found creative projects to be more satisfying and started charity GiveGetWin
Productivity Controls:
- Analyze your most productive days
- Set your daily routine to imitate your most productive days
- Center your work so that it is more exciting to you than unproductive pleasures
Reflective Control:
- Firm off auto-pilot
- High positive, high willpower state
- Able to take action right then and there (physically healthy enough, enough glucose, space, time, etc.)
- Reflective control is the most productive state to be in
High Level Mistakes:
- Most businesses don’t have a one main thing they are optimizing for they have too many
- Rush to implement new ideas without completing current tasks
- Not slowing down and revisiting the on-boarding of systems
One Piece of Advice:
- Proactively carve out time to reflect on assumptions of what was to happen on this project vs. what actually happened. This will give you a better understanding of your resources.
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