Four Principles for Productivity

Four Principles for Productivity

1. Protect Deep Work

• Study habits that create concentrated thinking
  • Get off phones and away from distractions
  • Set aside time where you won't answer phone, email, or text. This time is head-down work time
• If you don't protect the time, the work never happens

1. Constantly Clarify the Vision and Win

• The most productive people know what the scoreboard is, and you can’t have productive work without knowing what winning looks like.
  • Example: Winning is when service is 90% full, not 60% full

1. Reduce the Unnecessary

• Great leaders constantly ask what we can stop doing
• Productivity is not about doing more - it's about removing whatever hinders
  • Examples: Put phone in a different room during sermon prep, policy against social media during work hours

1. Guard Your Attention

• Practice "selective ignorance" - deciding what you're not going to know or let your mind go to
• Best leaders have focused attention and don't get pulled into things not contributing to the vision