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Personal Development Personal Productivity Focus Mastery

Modern Productivity — Superhuman Focus In A Distracted World

Boost your productivity, reclaim your focus, and achieve your goals with this proven approach to personal productivity!
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (8,139 ratings)
28,558 students
Created by Brad Merrill
Last updated 8/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Develop a productive mindset and stay motivated
  • Develop strong self-discipline and use the power of habit to your advantage
  • Understand the difference between busy work and productive work
  • Minimize the many distractions of modern life
  • Understand the truth about multitasking
  • Break your compulsive social media habit
  • Take charge of your time and stop living on other people's schedules
  • Identify your peak hours for productivity and become an early riser (if you want to)
  • Set long term goals and break those goals down into actionable tasks
  • Conduct annual, quarterly, and weekly reviews of your life
  • Use a task manager to plan and organize your work
  • Develop a strong work ethic
  • Stop procrastination in its tracks using a very simple strategy
  • Increase your efficiency with deadlines
  • Avoid burnout by changing the way you work
  • Understand how music affects your productivity
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • No experience necessary—however, you should be ready, willing, and able to adopt the habits and behaviors outlined in the course. There's nothing to it but to do it!

Description

Why does productivity matter?

We all have goals and ambitions, but most of us aren't on track to reach our goals because we're not taking the right action at the right time and with the right consistency.

We live in a world that's constantly distracted. Everyone seems to be chasing short-term gratification over long-term achievement. And it's not necessarily their fault—we have people and companies competing for our attention during every single moment of our waking lives.

The result is a global economy where focus and productivity are infinitely more valuable than almost any other trait—including talent and intelligence.

In this course, we'll walk through a variety of strategies that you can implement to reclaim your focus, maximize your productivity, and achieve your goals.

More specifically, here are some of the things we'll cover:

  • How to adopt a productive mindset
  • How to stay motivated
  • How to develop strong self-discipline and use the power of habit to boost your productivity
  • The key differences between busy people and productive people
  • How to minimize the distractions of modern life
  • The truth about multitasking
  • How social media is KILLING your productivity (and what to do about it)
  • The benefits of waking up early and how to become an early riser in less than a week
  • How to set long-term goals and break those goals down into actionable tasks
  • How to conduct annual, quarterly, and weekly reviews to increase your productivity and improve your life
  • How to use a task manager to plan and organize your work
  • How to develop a strong work ethic
  • A simple strategy you can use to stop procrastination in its tracks
  • How you can increase your efficiency with deadlines
  • How to focus for longer periods of time while avoiding burnout by changing the way you work
  • How music impacts productivity

By the end of the course, you'll have all the tools you need to become the most productive version of yourself—it's just a matter of putting it all into action.

This course is based on hundreds of hours of research, as well as my own personal experience in building two successful media companies. The strategies you'll find inside are used by some of the world's most productive and successful people to get things done—and it's all neatly packaged and presented in a format that makes it easy to digest and implement.

So if you're ready to stop procrastinating and start bringing your most ambitious goals to life, get yourself enrolled and give these productivity strategies a try. They've made a huge difference in my life, and I hope they'll do the same for you.

I'm really confident that you'll love this course, and my confidence is backed by Udemy's 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don't love it, you get your money back—no questions asked.

With all of that in mind, I hope to see you inside!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who has goals they want to achieve

Featured review

Jess Hamilton
Jess Hamilton
7 courses
1 review
Rating: 4.5 out of 5a year ago
This did cover a few things I already knew - but it certainly also gave me a few new perspectives on why I find myself picking up my phone and scrolling through FB rather than sitting down and 'getting on'. I'll no doubt be re-watching this course in order to enact some of the tips - thanks!

Course content

9 sections • 31 lectures • 1h 47m total length

  • Preview04:53

  • How To Stay Motivated
    03:17
  • Discipline And The Power Of Habit
    Preview05:36
  • The Difference Between Busy And Productive
    02:57

  • Preview02:34
  • The Truth About Multitasking
    02:46
  • How Social Media Is KILLING Your Productivity (And What To Do About It)
    08:42
  • Taking Charge Of Your Time
    02:39
  • How Meetings Impact Your Productivity
    03:27
  • Eliminating Your Personal Procrastination Triggers
    02:24
  • Paralysis By Analysis
    01:36
  • How To Leverage Other People's Time To Get More Done
    02:50

  • Identifying Your Peak Hours (And The Magic Of The Morning)
    04:44
  • How To Become A Morning Person (In Less Than A Week!)
    03:58

  • Preview02:12
  • Conducting Annual And Quarterly Reviews
    08:40
  • Should You Tell People About Your Goals?
    02:53
  • Using A Task Manager To Plan And Organize Your Work
    09:07
  • Conducting A Weekly Review
    04:44
  • Is "Time Blocking" Right For You?
    01:01

  • Developing A Strong Work Ethic
    05:23
  • How To Stop Procrastination In Its Tracks
    02:39
  • How Deadlines Can Increase Your Efficiency
    02:52
  • A Counterintuitive Strategy To Avoid Burnout And Focus Longer
    02:55
  • Batching Similar Tasks
    01:21
  • How Music Affects Your Productivity
    04:22
  • A Simple Motivation Hack To Get More Done Every Day
    01:53

  • Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy Of Good
    01:09
  • Creating A Healthy Balance
    01:47

  • The Next Steps
    01:00

  • Bonus Content
    00:52

Instructor

Brad Merrill
Entrepreneur, Journalist, & Bestselling Instructor
Brad Merrill
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 18,825 Reviews
  • 80,132 Students
  • 8 Courses

Brad Merrill is the CEO of Merrill Media, a modern holding company focused on building independent, scalable businesses at the intersection of technology and media. He is regarded as an expert in his field, teaching business and technology courses to more than 70,000 students and providing marketing training to a number of prominent startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Merrill considers himself a passionate creative: he loves creating articles, videos, websites, companies, workflows, and new ideas. He has been creating things on the web since 2007, working on dozens of projects and reaching tens of millions of people in the process.

In 2010, Merrill founded VentureBreak, which became a leading source of news about innovation for forward-thinking entrepreneurs, investors, business execs, and interested consumers. Under his leadership, VentureBreak served more than half a million monthly readers, appeared regularly on Techmeme, and found itself cited by a number of notable publications, including the Wall Street Journal. As the editor, Merrill personally interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs and industry luminaries, sharing their stories with VentureBreak’s global audience. In 2015, VentureBreak was acquired by the organizer of Silicon Roundabout, Europe’s largest technology meetup.

Merrill still has his finger on the pulse of the industry as he works to build new properties in today’s evolving media landscape.

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