1 00:00:04,319 --> 00:00:07,289 Josh Feinberg: Hi, this is Josh, welcome to this week's Josh's 2 00:00:07,319 --> 00:00:10,979 JabGrab, grab the jab before it hits ya. I want to come to you 3 00:00:10,979 --> 00:00:13,949 today in regards to a topic that I was thinking about this 4 00:00:13,949 --> 00:00:17,309 morning. And that's whether you're a busy work person, or 5 00:00:17,309 --> 00:00:20,069 you're productive. And a lot of people think that, you know, 6 00:00:20,069 --> 00:00:24,179 busy equals productive. In a lot of cases, that's not the truth, 7 00:00:24,449 --> 00:00:28,559 right? Because if you're busy, you know, I can guarantee a lot 8 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:31,349 of the characteristics that you have are, you have a lot of 9 00:00:31,349 --> 00:00:35,969 frantic work, you're thinking in the short term, you have goals, 10 00:00:35,969 --> 00:00:39,239 and a lot of times those goals, you know, aren't actually hit 11 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:42,869 because you're so busy. And there's a lot of characteristics 12 00:00:42,869 --> 00:00:46,679 that go into busy work. Now, if you're a productive person, 13 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:49,349 right, instead of actually having goals, you probably have 14 00:00:49,349 --> 00:00:52,739 priorities. And what I mean by that is, you'll actually 15 00:00:52,739 --> 00:00:56,489 schedule, you know, your priorities in a numbers game. So 16 00:00:56,489 --> 00:01:01,799 let's say for instance, you had task A,B,C, D, right, and wrote 17 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:05,219 those down on a piece of paper, and you knew that D was the most 18 00:01:05,219 --> 00:01:08,879 important thing you had to get done. And then then would come B 19 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:12,719 and then would come A and then would come C, right. And, you 20 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:16,589 know, that is very important, as far as being able to be 21 00:01:16,589 --> 00:01:20,249 productive, in being able to set priorities and be able to know 22 00:01:20,249 --> 00:01:22,889 when to structure it, right. And there's no right or wrong, you 23 00:01:22,889 --> 00:01:25,679 know, you got busy people and you got productive people. Not 24 00:01:25,679 --> 00:01:28,409 saying that people that are busy, aren't productive, there's 25 00:01:28,409 --> 00:01:31,199 just two different characteristics there. So you 26 00:01:31,199 --> 00:01:33,749 know, one of the things that you I want you to take a look at for 27 00:01:33,749 --> 00:01:37,229 yourself, is if you're busy or productive, because one of the 28 00:01:37,229 --> 00:01:40,559 problems with busy is you always feel like that, you know, work 29 00:01:40,559 --> 00:01:42,959 is frantic, you know, you're going crazy. And you're like 30 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,659 running in a bunch of different places, and you never really 31 00:01:45,659 --> 00:01:48,629 have a clear path of where you're going. And that can 32 00:01:48,629 --> 00:01:51,689 actually create, you know, some downfall. And you know, you're 33 00:01:51,689 --> 00:01:54,629 not being as productive as possible, comparatively, on the 34 00:01:54,629 --> 00:01:57,869 other end, you know, what your long term goals are, and you've 35 00:01:57,869 --> 00:02:02,039 kind of set the steps to get there. So you know, what I want 36 00:02:02,039 --> 00:02:06,149 you to focus on this week is if you are productive, or you're 37 00:02:06,149 --> 00:02:09,659 just busy, because the thing is, at the end of the day, you want 38 00:02:09,659 --> 00:02:13,019 to be able to be productive. And you know, you can go on Google 39 00:02:13,019 --> 00:02:16,019 and Google a bunch of different articles on how to be more 40 00:02:16,019 --> 00:02:20,789 productive rather than busy. And, you know, busy is kind of 41 00:02:20,789 --> 00:02:24,719 like a you know, I guess you could say a scapegoat to, y 42 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:27,599 u know, saying, "Oh, I'm doing my job. Look how good I'm doing 43 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:30,869 my job." It's kind of like a f lse sense of productiveness, ri 44 00:02:30,989 --> 00:02:34,919 ht. So you want to be able to f cus on being productive by doing 45 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,369 the necessary things that make you productive, and that's 46 00:02:38,369 --> 00:02:41,489 (1) looking at the long t rm, (2) creating the necessar 47 00:02:41,669 --> 00:02:45,269 steps. (3) Don't be frantic, e calm, (4) and be able to work 48 00:02:45,269 --> 00:02:47,159 hrough what you need to work through. H