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Josh Feinberg: Hi, this is Josh,
welcome to this week's Josh's

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JabGrab, grab the jab before it
hits ya. I want to come to you

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today in regards to a topic that
I was thinking about this

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morning. And that's whether
you're a busy work person, or

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you're productive. And a lot of
people think that, you know,

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busy equals productive. In a lot
of cases, that's not the truth,

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right? Because if you're busy,
you know, I can guarantee a lot

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of the characteristics that you
have are, you have a lot of

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frantic work, you're thinking in
the short term, you have goals,

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and a lot of times those goals,
you know, aren't actually hit

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because you're so busy. And
there's a lot of characteristics

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that go into busy work. Now, if
you're a productive person,

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right, instead of actually
having goals, you probably have

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priorities. And what I mean by
that is, you'll actually

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schedule, you know, your
priorities in a numbers game. So

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let's say for instance, you had
task A,B,C, D, right, and wrote

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those down on a piece of paper,
and you knew that D was the most

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important thing you had to get
done. And then then would come B

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and then would come A and then
would come C, right. And, you

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know, that is very important, as
far as being able to be

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productive, in being able to set
priorities and be able to know

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when to structure it, right. And
there's no right or wrong, you

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know, you got busy people and
you got productive people. Not

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saying that people that are
busy, aren't productive, there's

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just two different
characteristics there. So you

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know, one of the things that you
I want you to take a look at for

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yourself, is if you're busy or
productive, because one of the

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problems with busy is you always
feel like that, you know, work

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is frantic, you know, you're
going crazy. And you're like

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running in a bunch of different
places, and you never really

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have a clear path of where
you're going. And that can

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actually create, you know, some
downfall. And you know, you're

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not being as productive as
possible, comparatively, on the

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other end, you know, what your
long term goals are, and you've

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kind of set the steps to get
there. So you know, what I want

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you to focus on this week is if
you are productive, or you're

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just busy, because the thing is,
at the end of the day, you want

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to be able to be productive. And
you know, you can go on Google

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and Google a bunch of different
articles on how to be more

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productive rather than busy.
And, you know, busy is kind of

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like a you know, I guess you
could say a scapegoat to, y

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u know, saying, "Oh, I'm doing
my job. Look how good I'm doing

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my job." It's kind of like a f
lse sense of productiveness, ri

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ht. So you want to be able to f
cus on being productive by doing

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the necessary things that make
you productive, and that's

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(1) looking at the long t
rm, (2) creating the necessar

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steps. (3) Don't be frantic,
e calm, (4) and be able to work

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hrough what you need to work
through. H