Last October I wrote an article called “Taking Action: Improving the Hustle One thing at a Time”. I wrote that two weeks prior to launching what is now a quickly growing web design & brand development business called Growth Effect, and while finishing off my book Driven To Learn, Learning to Win, just before its publication.
At the time, I was struggling with managing the amount of work I had on my plate. Truth is, it doesn’t even compare to what I have on my plate today. But today, I’m getting things done like never before.
What Changed
Several things changed. For one, I maintained my commitment to stop multi-tasking and start applying better concentration to everything I was working on, on an individual-per task/project basis.
Prioritized Time Management
First and foremost I started allocating my time as if it was valuable (which it is). What that means for me is that I committed to spending my time on activities that were important (linked to my goals). In hindsight, some of the things that were keeping me busy in the past only had an illusion of importance–things that kept me busy but didn’t apply much weight in reaching my ‘forecasted‘ milestones.
The main area I was spending an insurmountable amount of time was reading blogs. I would read, then move on the next one to read. It got to the point where I was just reading a bunch but not taking a step back to apply anything. So basically, I was bombarding myself with information, but not giving myself time to take action. For me, in my reality, information is useless without action.
To be honest, this is a common thread online –we have so much information that we can spend all of our time simply learning, and always thinking we need to learn more. But if we don’t take action and incorporate and test what we learn into our life, then it’s all for nothing–a big waste of time.
Finally it clicked for me. I realized that people that are successful in ways that I want to be successful don’t spend hours every day reading blogs–they spend hours taking orchestrated and atomic action.
Understand When I’m at my Best
The next important change I made was committing to understand what controllable variables I perform the best under. What I discovered is that I work best under organized conditions and in sprints of about 15 minutes. Learning that I’m at my best in 10 to 15 minute bursts, followed by a 3-5 minute break, made me more at ease and decreased my urge to multi-task.
What I do now could be described as planned multitasking. I work on my main task for no longer than 15 minutes and then to free my mind from that task, instead of mentally venturing off as I did in the past–I now take a 3-5 minute break and focus on something else that I planned ahead of time. This allows me to work on two things, in an orchestrated fashion–with an efficient and quality-based approach.
I don’t know if this type of system could work for everyone, but for me, the intervals help calm my ever-wondering mind and keeps me on course. I have a short attention span at times, and this helps me stay on course.
Fully Committed To Winning
These two critical changes have allowed me to excel in my corporate job, more than ever, while keeping up with the incline of Growth Effect. The workload is significant most of the time, but I believe that’s part of the cost to reach big goals.
As a result to applying what I’ve shared here and staying committed to winning and discovering the areas in my life where I need to make adjustments, I’ve experienced an increase in income; less burden’some feelings from my workload; and more enjoyment in doing my work (especially with Growth Effect).
Are You Doing Yourself Justice?
I ask myself this question often these days. I question myself to keep myself accountable.
At Random times, I’ll ask myself (in 3rd person):
Are you spending your time as if it’s valuable? If time were money, would you still spend it the same way? Are you wasting time and avoiding taking action by creating false illusions of importance? Are you giving yourself time to apply what you learn?
I ask the same questions to you…Are you doing yourself justice?
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Hey man,
Luckily I caught this on my Twitter Feed as soon as you Tweeted it! lol.
What you said is so true. The biggest trap most of us fall into is spending too much time learning stuff online and get lost in the Universe of Information. I see lots of people doing this with blogs as well. They spend so much time blogging and commenting, I don’t know how they have time to run a business! I know it’s something we’ve spoke about before, and will be next week.
As you said man, information is only of any value whatsoever if it is applied. The truth is, most of us have enough information to apply, but it’s easy to keep searching for more. Really, it’s just a glorified form of procrastination, because no real action is being taken.
People only value our time when we value it ourselves.
Thanks for the tips about the 15 minute sprints, going to try that out myself and see how it works out, there’s always room to be more organised and efficient.
Looking forward to our chat next week man.
Speak soon.
P.S. Going to try and tune in tonight if it’s not too late at my end!
Excellent post, Jk!
This is exactly where I’ve been myself for over a month or so now. I found myself literally beating myself down trying to reach everyone’s blog I knew. Then after I finished reading them, I usually left with nothing… feeling nothing, doing nothing, and practicing nothing. So I stood back one day and begin to ask myself (because yes, sometimes we have to ask ourselves serious questions and give ourselves seriously honest answers), and so I asked, “Am I being fully productive in going after my goals? Is what I’m spending the most of my time doing, getting me any closer to where I want to be?”
And honestly, my answer was “No”. I wasn’t doing everything I could have been doing. My time was certainly not spent as though it was money. I believe I was still clinging to the way of thinking that kept me in the same exact life I’ve had for as far back as I can remember. And that’s my whole thing… I had to change my daily practices; it was the only way I saw it being possible for me to advance in my life, career, and relationships.
Time management was a biggie for me too. I’m still working at getting better at it, but I’m certainly better than I was, by far say a few months ago; but I know I can still use improvement in this area.
This post really put into perspective what needs to take place for me – more now than ever before! I think we both have similar goals and are heading in similar directions. You have the family dynamic pushing you, and I have the “it’s just time to stop playing around and get serious about my life” dynamic pushing me.
Both of us, are seriously focused on what we want though. That’s why I think I enjoyed this read as much as I did.
Great to be back here at HN, man! And Congrats to all the moves and shakes of GE! I see big things on the horizon for you bud! Keep up the great work! Cheers and Blessing!
I am here after so long but I am so glad I came by for this!
I felt that way some time back and I decided I needed to take action. And I am trying my best but I feel I just ain’t doing justice as much as I thought I would. I feel no matter how much I write, I can write more; no matter how much I read, I could read more and no matter how much I work, I could work more. I think it is about pushing myself to the limit to put myself to test at times. I feel I should be doing more justice!
Loved this JK! Have a lovely day!
On point as usual JK. I walked the information overload road for many years. From time to time, I will catch myself straying from the straight path and quickly whip out the map an d compass to right my course.
Thanks for the reminder and tested wisdom.
Prioritizing really does help to get more done however ironic it might sound. Less is really more when it comes to productivity. We don’t get to have extra hours daily, except the stipulated 24hours. The only way to get more out of it is to put in less into it.
Welcome back buddy. Glad to see that business is working out great. Just saw your email update and decided to drop by here to catch up on you!
Good post. Insight without action is just a form of mental masturbation.
Riley
JK,
Great post. This post fits me like a tailored suit. I find myself wasting a lot of valuable time reading and researching instead of taking action. This post was very inspiring. I am now moving forward in what I know to do. I still read several blogs and other material, but not at the expense of putting what I learned into action. Keep doing what you do.
Teacher: Who is living your life for you?
Student: No one; I live my own life.
Teacher: And do you know what causes you to live the kind of life you live?
Student: I cause it.
Teacher: Your deep conviction, your burning desires, your strongly felt points of view – these cause you to live the life you live.
I like how you have taken control of your convictions, desires and points of view, Jk
Blessings
Great show tonight (and I love that face you’re making up there!).
I agree – it is wasting time to just read blogs and comment for the sake of taking in more information. I consider it “social time” and plan accordingly.
I was having some trouble finishing up a course I was writing for A Clear Sign so I’ve simply targeted 2 hours a day of working on it until it’s done – and I’m not worrying about what happens AFTERWARD right now (marketing, publishing etc). I’m just writing and organizing the course – period. Otherwise my brain would spin out where it didn’t need to go yet – to the stuff I DON’T know how to do. It sounds like you’ve identified the things that throw you off track as well – they’re different than mine but we’re each much more productive.
What a great post. You are a man of action, my friend. I remember when you wrote that original post and look at you now. You are doing it, Jk. Writing it and now living it. What a great example of what to do to succeed in life and achieve your goals. You inspire me. I will be making more changes as well. Thanks so much for all you do and your continued support. Much appreciated, brother.
Al
man you put this up at the right time. I been putting in alot of meaning-less time over planning for things when i could simply just take action. when i see can see my own results with my action the better the plan becomes thanks again bra.
Congrats JK on the goals you set and achieved. I am so happy for you and what an inspiring post about winning. When I got your book, I sat back thinking about all the steps that was laid out for you and instead of thinking about it, you made it happen. That’s what I am doing for myself and some changes have happened in my life recently that allowed me to see that myself. I have found myself more focused on my priorities and what matters most in my life.
What I liked most about what you stated is that we do read too many blogs and there is so much information online it’s almost overwhelming, but where we choose to spend our time dictates the direction you’re leading your life towards. Thanks for an inspiring post and a reminder to keep hustling no matter what.
Sorry I missed you guys over the holidays. Hope the visit home was great for you guys! Did you guys go to Winchester House?
Hi Jk,
It’s good to see you posting again, even if you publish infrequently – it’s a pleasure to catch up on what the Hustler is up too
Regarding managing workload with available time (productivity), there’s never a solution that fits everyone. Some people limit themselves by dreaming small, avoiding the big dreams because they don’t believe they can achieve them. So they achieve the small dreams, but are always left with a sense that they could have done more.
Others try to take on too much, and so become overwhelmed and stressed when they realise their workload is more than their available time can bear. They want the big dreams as soon as possible, so they try to get more done in the same amount of time to reach these dreams faster. But the dreams arrive in their own time. Despite the intense levels of work, we don’t win – instead, we suffer because we’ve been pushing ourselves for too long.
To find an ideal way of working is something everyone has to discover for themselves. There are no ‘hard rules’ – what works for me works for me alone, because it applies only to my life. Somebody else could gain some ideas from my own unique way, but they can’t copy it directly. Everyone has to have their own level of individuality.
Take care my friend
It took me a while to understand the true meaning of the words “taking action”. Now, every chance I get is a chance I act!
You really have a point there JK.
We should all be like an opportunist sometimes. Thanks for sharing this.. Keep up the good work!
I find your post very informative JK. It gives me an insight on how to do things in a positive way and taking opportunities. Thanks for sharing this one JK.
Hey JK,
This reminds me of Anthony Robbins – nothing happens without taking massive action. Amen. As far as doing myself justice: I am getting back to that. Have spent way too much time in recent months on reading blogs and social media. I’ve cut way back, really pared my involvement and what I’m reading. In fact, I can’t believe I’m leaving this comment now instead of at midnight. But I saw the article on LinkedIn, written by Jk, and I couldn’t help myself…
Hey my man. I just had to stop in to tell you how happy I am to watch your growth and witness how your focus and goals have matured so much in the last year.
You’re an example to all of us JK.
Marcus
Thanks Allen for inspiration!
I always try to do one thing at the time but it sometimes very difficult but once you start multitasking the you feel that nothing is moving the right direction and time is being wasted.
It’s good to get this kind of reminders, why multitasking sucks
Insightfu stuffl, JK
Thanks for this 
And since ‘commenting on blogs’ aligns with my goals current goal of making an impact in the community and increasing my digital footprint, I feel comfortable writing this, rather than closing the browser window and never reading Hustlers Notebook again
Joke’s aside, I totally agree, I got sucked into information addiction for awhile some years ago
I’m curious, have you read Leo Babauta’s 4+ posts on a “goal-less” life?
http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/
How does your system relate?
JK,
Yes, yes and double yest to everything you said. You are so right about the common thread we all tend to bombard ourselves with so much information and reading and then busy ourselves with tasks which don’t really contribute to the bottom line.
BUT… I think i’ts part of the process. It’s part of the growth process. In the beginning we read and consume information, comment and try to replicate but then there comes a point where you just say, enough is enough and start taking that info and turning it into a plan for YOU.
p.s.
love that you’re side hustle is taking off. I’m getting ready to release a product of my own too in a few months and hope i can pick your brain in the future.
Take care, you were sorely missed and glad you are back now.
I am really happy that I have read this post because I know a lot of people are looking and waiting for this one…
Wonderful job!. This really a great help to people seeking development in their ventures.
I agree with you on multitasking. It only helps you not focus completely on a lot of things at once. Instead, I do what I think Tim Ferris calls “batching.” So, instead of reading blogs all day or answering emails all day, I’ll just set a small time block aside for those tasks and bulldoze through them all them.
Good thing you updated your post here…Anyway, I am sure this can help all businessmen and even to all people…
I haven’t been over here in a minute. Congratulations on finishing your book, JK!
As you know…there is a MAJOR difference between writing a blog post and writing a BOOK. And the difference is often defined as “consistent focus”.
Many people “talk” about doing this, or accomplishing that, but few are the ones who actually GET IT DONE. I believe that many of those who fit the “get it done” category are the folks who frequent your site and sites like yours. I’ve noticed that there’s a certain kind of doggish determination that’s needed to accomplish most things in life that you really want. I think your point you made about “knowing yourself and when you’re at your best” is often an overlooked quality for those who wanna get stuff done.
Sometimes knowing your limitations help you exploit your gifts and talents at just the right times.
It looks like you used your knowledge of “self” to get the MOST out of your self in order to accomplish your goal. While many people are walking around like Zombies and letting their lives pass them by———congratulations to you on taking yet another step to live the kind of life that you really want.
So stay motivated and stay VICTORIOUS!
~Victory Unlimited
I can understand what you’ve gone through. I also had an experience like that a few years back and I made the decision to let go of the things that hamper my work towards my goals. I never regretted doing that.
Great tips thanks for it sharing wonderful post.
Taking a kind of action will simply developed our personality and make us more productive… Winning is about participating in such activities and never afraid to face an actions….
This is an amazing post. I’m truly inspired.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful post.
-Jenson
Yes! I agree to this. Although life is not easy I still find time to develop myself to become a better person. Thanks for sharing! Very inspiring.
Hi Jk! Excellent post you have here! I am really sure that people can relate to this and will serve as a help for them…
Great post Jk! I can totally relate. For you to take the time to find a proactive strategy to get things done shows that you are winner. I am so glad that I read this post today… you never cease to inspire me. Your statement about learning for the sake of learning and not taking action amounts to wasted time is so right on! I believe that through actions, one gains insight and wisdom. Active learning is more valuable than passive learning. Keep doing what you do, Jk!
Make sure that you do not spend all night studying for your tests. Try to get your studying done early so that you have enough time to sleep. In the morning, eat something healthy like fruits or cereal.
Thanks for these tips and inspiration. How can I get a copy of your book by the way? You really write well.
-Eunice
I can honestly say that I’m trying my best to take care about how I spend my time. I’ve learned to praise it’s value and I find it precious now.
I found your website perfect for my needs,I really loved reading your blog.
It was very well authored and easy to understand.Thanks a lot for sharing your
thoughts
I think the tips you have provided here can be a big help…Anyway, It is important to use our time wisely always…We have to make an action and achieve our goals…
Cool post…
It’s no coincidence that my fav song is Rick Ross’ “Hustlin”!
Delthine Taya Njiu
Thanks for sharing this useful article, I really like your point on time management, and your tips are very useful for me, because I’ve been always in trouble when I need to manage my time efficiently.
The tips you have provide are really helpful for me. Thanks for these tips and inspirations.
JK, I agree with you here. In everything, when you want it to be happen you have to take an action for it works. I had made my time doing valuable things and wasted my time as well. Thanks for this inspirational post.
thanks that you sheared this. it’s so nice..
It was inspirational..
Thanks for this post..
Hey JK,
You’ve shared such great insight and tips through your experience alone!
The game absolutely changes once you focus on outcomes, not activities, and you use your best energy for your best results. Congrats on making it happen.
Helpful tips..
great post..
Thanks for sharing..
Those are great questions that everyone should ponder on. We should realize on our own if we are shortchanging ourselves and what we should do to address that problem.
This is really a big help…Thank you for sharing it to us here…
I am happy whenever I see some people who blog about change and making it happen. I agree that I was also the same before, first thing I change is time management and it really helped me to allow things to go smoothly.
Just wanted to let you know I really loved this post and I’ll be pinning this!
This post was very inspiring. I am now moving forward in what I know to do, and thanks for this post.
Interesting post…I’m similar when working..Planned multitasking perfectly describes the way i work.
I work the same way as you do. I take some breaks during work to freshen up my ideas. I like how you mentioned prioritizing things because that is where I am lost sometimes. I am so overwhelmed with things to do, I don’t know where to start. Thanks for the inspiration. Keep it up.
I believe We needed to accomplish most things in life that is where I am lost sometimes.When you want it to be happen you have to take an action for it works. I am now moving forward in what I know to do, and thanks for this post.
Taking an action is very important especially when we have our goals…Goals should be set and at the same time, we need to make a move…
I know that all of us is aware that we can attain every goal/ success if we are able to do an actions… Taking an action is like having a guts to perform every task effectively…
It’s nice to motivate with this post, making things worthy by dealing effectively with different challenge will bring a beautiful result at last… taking an action is making things possible…
Taking an action means a greater possibility to get what we really want and need in our life or in business…
dude…
First time here. Really like your style. I’m going to follow along closer and look forward to be part of the journey. Congrats on your success.
Thanks,
Ryan H.
Time is always running. To manage time, planning is very important.
You speak a lot of truth here. I used to find it to be new emails coming in which stopped me focussing on the job in hand (even if I didn’t act on them, I’d often be thinking on the contents rather than what I needed to concentrate on). The solution I found to that was to not read emails until midday, so that I could use the morning working on the priority jobs.
I think the biggest thing for me is the prioritizing of my time. I have so much I want to do but I know that I can only do so much in a day. Also I have found that if I treat my time like money I use it more sparingly. I even have a “budget” for my time so I know where it is all going.
Setting my goals and perform it effectively step by step process is one thing that I do it right now…
This is a great motivational post, everyone can benifit from been more organised its just finding what works for you when you want to get organised. I use large a3 flip charts with one project on each stuck around the room, its visual which helps.
Everyone can find their organisations form!
I think the only time to take action is right now. After all the only time you have is right now, tomorrow will never come and you can never change yesterday.
Thanks for this great motivational post. I enjoyed it so much. Good job!
Winning Big by Taking Action really works and I thank you for that great advice because it is such effective.
Hi…I hope you can update your site here and we can’t wait to read more of your posts… Anyway, thanks for this…
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I was recently told by 2 doctors to take action – lol. Got to start exercising more and adding an hour a day of anything is enough to upset my apple cart. I like your idea on prioritized time management and understanding there are so many distractions when you work online it might be best to try to concentrate in 15 minute increments. OK wish me luck on my new prioritized list. Cheers -
I like the concept of the blog. Winning big by taking action it works really works. Thanks for sharing your great post with us.
Great post!.. It is always great to have more people dropping by your websites, and your post should come handy for getting more people to drop by.
I hope this can serve as a lesson to everyone especially to people who are not familiar how to handle their life and business.. Thanks!
This is a great motivational post, everyone can benifit from been more organised its just finding what works for you when you want to get organised.
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At the moment, I think I’m not doing myself some justice. I’ve been slacking for a couple of weeks already. What can you suggest to stop my sluggishness these days? Thanks for sharing these actions.
-Jordan
How I wish I can also manage to change my habits like you did.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in trying to make money online, it’s not to divide my attention between 2 or more ventures at once…
I hope this can serve as a lesson to everyone. I learn more how to handle my life and business..Thank you for sharing this article. It is very helpful.
Thanks for being inspire with us..I learn a lot while reading on this blog..
It is really tough to win and there are no short cuts for success. For gaining anything you need to totally put yourself in. Perseverance is what that takes you beyond success.
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Great article, commitment is everything when taking action. There are no excuses
I learn more how to handle my life and business..Thank you for sharing this article. It is very helpful.Taking Action really works and I thank you for that great advice because it is such effective.
JK,
Just came across your blog. You’ve got swag my man. Looking forward to diving in a bit
Its totally depends on luck to win.
Any tips or suggestions chance to win for me?
Thanks
Albert
Very inspiring. I needed the motivation. Thank you
Great, I like your way to explain it, thank for sharing..:)
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Very well said JK… We need to set our priorities and manage our time to meet our deadlines. How we set our personal goals is the main key to effective time management . Setting personal goals carefully, will provide one with a sense of achievement, sustain motivation, and will help in reducing stress. And than we also need to effectively organize our daily actions and move one step at a time.
I fully agree with the concept of Understand When I’m at my Best. It is best to maximize those moments by going all out on what we are doing.
I can Identify with all that you have said in your article. You cannot win unless you try, and to try means to take action. Without commitment and perseverance to accomplishing what you like from the start you willnever win big.
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Your article really inspired me, and I read the article about Talking action: Improving the hustle one thing at a time and I really to got great inspiration from it too.
Great job with your blog! This is a really nice post. Where do you get your inspiration? Thank you very much for encouraging me and a lot of other people out there.
Thanks for providing he best advices for us. These advice will help us much to go ahead. Its really an important article to all.
You have a very good point in mentioning commitment. It is one thing to take action from a simple desire/decision, but being committed to the action takes more effort.
Nice article for making a winner out from yourself. Very motivating and truthful
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Very truthful and interesting !
Great article, you really boosted me up..:) Thanks for sharing…
I want to fulfill my achievement but time is a big factor. Everybody try to best himself but a few numbers can reach to goal. As per your beautiful topic i think, I’ll success. Thanks for sharing.
Well you previous edition was good…. I think you had done a great deal of work.
I’m glad i found this post! You have just inspired me. These are exactly the things i need to do and the questions i need to ask myself. Everyone should read this and start taking action.
Thanks for sharing this inspirational article, I think it could be helpful for many of us. I am in abad period of my live, things just won’t fit nowadays. But I know I have to take action and not to wait for the changes. I should make the changes my own!
Thank’s for your post, it lifts my goal, not only me but most of the readers as well.
It is really easy to undervalue yourself these days. On the other hand, it will really work wonders for us once we give ourselves justice and start to give our full commitment to what we are doing.
When i was little , my mom used to tell me finish you lesson before exam you will not have to worry in the hall .. I used to do opposite .. But now as i think of it , i find that everybody should do that .. Its best and easiest way to stay relaxed .. I’d say you should keep you mind calm and study but sleep at least 6 hours for sound mind ..
I always do multitasking because I don’t want to waste time. Sometimes it’s a good habit and sometimes it’s not.
Wow, I never actually thought about this before. I do agree with you on your points on taking actions to win. How do you keep yourself determined to really win? Anyway, thanks for posting this!
-Louise
Nice points.. This article shares a lot of helpful informations for us to be motivated and keep on going till we reach our goal which is to win! Thanks for sharing..
Good for you. I envy those people who are able to commit or prioritize on what they think should be prioritized. I particularly struggle on commitments everytime. I will try and follow what you did.
I love your thoughts on the sub-heading “Understand When I’m at my Best”. This is one aspect of work that we should all try to know and to take advantage.
Very interesting and truthful post – I have to work very hard on not getting sidetracked by all of the information available on the Web – I start out doing one thing and end up – who knows where…
I find I am much better if I focus on one thing at a time – set a (mini) goal, get it done and move on.
It is better to do thing one at a time. I think you cannot achieve two things at one time. Taking action for your one goal will definitely give an awesome result. In order to achieve success with your goal, it is very important to have time management. Then, you must be fully committed to achieve winning.
Time-boxing really works.
I have to admit I don’t always use it myself, because sometimes I just like to enjoy life, meander, cruise, call it what you will – even at work. Sometimes it’s cool not to be the most productive I can be.
But – if I really want to be the most efficient possible then I use time-boxing/the pomodoro technique – usually 25/5 for me works best.
I like that you described it as planned multi-tasking, that’s exactly what it is. Nobody really multi-tasks if they look closely at what they’re actually doing and they’re honest about it. Even computers don’t really multi-task – they can just time-box super fast in tiny time-boxes
great post JK,
take care,
Alan
I agree, I believe you need a healthy mix of constantly learning and applying techniques. As Bruce Lee once said, “Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.”