![]() I didn't care if it made sense, I only cared that I was DOING it. I threw my phone on the couch and turned the Internet signal "off" and started typing. Don't believe me? My good friend John Romaniello - a celebrity fitness coach, NYT best selling author and practically Hercules reincarnate- wrote an in-depth article on how he has his own fitness trainer.Īs soon as I got the text from Adam - I recently hired him to help me get a move on - I shuttered in fear for one split second but then IMMEDIATELY snapped into focus. Successful people in all fields have coaches, and typically go on to lay their success on the fact they have a coach. No matter the industry or category, active mentors have a way of bringing the BEST out of you and taking you to the next level. This goes in any area of life: business, writing, hobbies, relationships, time management, you name it. ![]() Not very "secret" - is it? I think everyone needs a coach. That's the secret reason I'm "successful." I pay someone I trust to tell me what to do and make sure I actually do it (and properly). Now, this might sound unusual to some of you.the obvious question would be: "Why would someone who has written hundreds of blog posts that have reached millions of eyeballs across the world, who has a six-figure book deal, and who has been paid for copywriting, hire someone else to train him on writing?"įrom the outside, it seems backwards but you're looking at the equation in the wrong direction. Let me be totally clear about that: I pay someone to coach me, every freaking day, to make sure that I stay on track and hit my writing objectives. Not an editor (the publisher provides that). I was somewhere in the middle of making fart jokes with Maneesh and proactively forgetting about my 2,000 word count responsibility for the day when Adam texted me: Let me take you back to that fateful morning from a few weeks ago. If all these things AREN'T the solution to becoming more productive, then what can actually help? If anything, they distract me into thinking I'm doing something. None of these helped me produce a damn thing. Look, I've read every Lifehacker story on productivity.I've tried every Buzzfeed to-do list.I've got more wearables and downloaded more apps than I'd like to admit. In all three of these scenarios, you were busy "doing stuff" - maybe you were even efficient with your time while doing it - but there was a net gain of zero. You begin a new hobby, but get frustrated when you reach a plateau and quit. You lose weight, but lose focus and gain it all back. You come up with a few ideas, but don't test anything. You might spend years attempting to produce something and still have nothing to SHOW for your time. Therefore, to be productive, you have to produce something NEW. Being productive is simply what it sounds like: Producing something new. "You have to learn how to use your time better. It's the frustration of being unable to control your own focus for long enough to complete the things that really matter to you - and instead, wasting your time on trivial BS. ("Yeah.this paper is worth 33 percent of my 'm still going to wait until the night before.") It's that feeling of knowing exactly what you need to do but not being able to do it. Maybe you can relate to this crippling problem I've had my whole life. There I was, endlessly tumbling down the social media rabbit hole and text messaging distraction loop of external obligations, completely unable to stop myself.Įven though my editor was expecting a finished book in a few weeks.Įven though the morning was supposed to be phone off/ internet off.Įven though I promised myself I would change my habits. I looked at my phone and got lost in a series of group convos with my startup team, then with my friend Maneesh, and then started on Snapchat.even though the morning was supposed to be phone OFF. Just one word to get going! It was 8 a.m. In October, I landed a lucrative book deal with a major NY publisher and the first draft was due in three weeks. "I'm only on Chapter 5," I'm thinking, sweating.
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