The Science of Personal Productivity
What you'll learn
- Describe the power of a schedule in helping you organize your day to focus on important tasks, and explain how simply getting started can be the key to tackling your biggest to-do items.
- Explain how accountability partners and systems can help you avoid blame and shame and instead learn how you spend your time, and how to improve it.
- Describe how practicing forgiveness for your coworkers and having a short memory for your own mistakes can not only improve productivity, but also provide a wealth of health benefits.
- Master the “Graceful No” to help you clarify priorities and focus on productivity over being busy.
- Describe how decluttering your workspace and minimizing distractions can create a productive work environment, and how automating some of your decisions can limit Decision Fatigue.
- Reframe the stories you tell yourself about failures and setbacks so they stop holding you back and instead help you move forward.
- Explain how to make the most of your time spent on communications like email, and how small changes can make for better, more productive meetings.
- Describe how perfectionism is often due to fear of failure, and how embracing “good enough” can actually lead to better results.
Requirements
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
Description
Exploring the power of the mind to get more done
Do you start your day by checking your email and then get stuck? Do you let one big task loom over your head and get in the way of your productivity? Do you find yourself saying “Yes” to too many tasks and then not having enough time to do anything well?
If any of these sound like you, this course from Dr. Rebecca Heiss will help you understand more about why we find ourselves in these situations, and teach you practical, science-based ways to be more productive.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to be more productive at work or home.
Course content
10 lectures • 51minIntroduction
- Preview05:12
- Preview04:30
- Preview04:23
- 04:29The Power of "No"
- 04:54Changing Your Environment
- 04:23Decision Fatigue
- 05:32Your Mindset
- 05:06Effective Communication
- 05:33Perfectionism
- 06:47Managing Stress
Instructor
![Chip Reaves](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Bigger Brains Founder and President Chip Reaves is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful companies. An Atlanta native, Chip began fixing computers for small businesses in the 1980's while studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. After 10 years building a successful IT Service Practice in Atlanta, Chip founded the Computer Troubleshooters franchise system alongside Wilson & Suzanne McOrist, which became the world's largest computer service franchise and received multiple awards from Entrepreneur Magazine, Franchise Business Review, and AllBusiness.
Chip has been interviewed on TV and other major media on topics related to small business technology and entrepreneurship, including ABC News, BusinessWeek TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and is a member of Jim Blasingame's "Brain Trust" on SmallBusinessAdvocate. In 2010 Chip was listed among the Top 150 most influential people in small business IT by SMB PC magazine.
Chip lives with his wife Maren and step-daughter Meg in Anderson, South Carolina where they also co-own a Computer Troubleshooters franchise location. In his spare time Chip is very active with his church and local charities, and consults with two aid organizations serving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.