Productivity Tips

I read a post at SmartWealthyRich.com about choices you make affecting your future productivity. He compares this theory to dieting in that, when you decide to go on a diet you make a decision not to eat unhealthy foods, etc. So when someone walks up to a person dieting and offers a piece of cake, or some other kind of sweets, that person will decline because of a decision made previously. You can decide to be successful in life and in doing so, your future decisions will be based on the level of success you’ve decided you expect of yourself.

There is a point in our lives where we must realize it’s time to get serious and stop acting like we have all the time in the world. I reached that point and I looked myself in the mirror and told myself it was time to stop behaving as if life owed me something and get out there and take what was mine.

It was time to drop the dead weight I had been carrying and chart my own path and chuck the suggestions/demands everyone else was making on me that were only productive for them. At that time that meant a lot of changes to my life, A LOT! I’ve come through tough things, but so have you, we all have, but it really does make you tougher.

Fortunately I was 20 years old when I made the decision to take charge of my life and literally take what was mine, if I worked for it, I thought, I deserved it and no one gets to tell me different. My next step was to enroll in business classes, among other things.

Sadly some of us live our whole lives and never realize that it’s okay to take what’s yours when you’ve earn it. Some of us live our entire lives thinking that we always have to follow the path we’re shown by others because it worked for them, or someone they knew.

That blog got me thinking about the tips I’ve given you here that you can apply to your financial outlook if you so choose. It’s hard to be assertive and responsible about saving money when you see bills coming in and you don’t have any money to pay them or to just have fun. But the attitude you have about it can change everything.

Your lifestyle and the way you live will never change if you don’t have a proverbial “lightbulb moment” and decide that only you can change your situation. I can tell you how to save money, compounded times 1000 and that you can be a millionaire, but you would have to decide to do it for it to work for you.

Whether your problem is that you only have enough money to pay your bills and no extra or you find yourself spending hundreds in extra income every month without saving a dime. Both are equally desperate situations, both have solutions that begin with you.

If you find yourself not having enough money, examine your bills, there is something there you can cut out and save. If you spend too much, put yourself on an allowance. Either way, you have to make that decision to take charge - not of your money - not of your life, of yourself.

It’s self discipline. That is the key to productivity. To be productive, you have to be motivated, to be motivated you have to have goals. Make some goals. I think what I’m trying to say is that it’s all in your frame of mind, you decide that there’s something you want out of life and it doesn’t seem like a sacrifice if you have to give something up to meet that goal.

This is the only tip I have for you, you have to get real with yourself and know it’s you that makes it happen, and no one else.

I read a blog a few days ago at Disjointed Intelligence that explains this perfectly from a more personal perspective.

Everything you want out of life is out there for you, you just have to decide that you want it, and then go get it.