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What To Expect?

In today’s article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting is an article that will change your life. We all deep down want to be productive and do well. Then the magnitude of the task or the feeling of doing it isn’t quite aligned to get started. We’ve all been there but the simple technique of just starting will change all that.

What Happens If You Don’t Just Start Something

If you don’t start a task that is challenging straight away. Procrastination will start to build up and become a habit every time something challenging comes your way.

For the mind, you will always feel regret alongside a host of other emotions because you didn’t just start the task. Not starting straight away will lead to a build-up of work and a to-do list that will become more overwhelming for your mind to cope with.

How stressful is it when you have to hand in an assignment and you start the night before to complete it? It’s super stressful and you always say to yourself why didn’t you just start this earlier.

The habit of putting things off has to stop because it’s doing damage to your productivity, standards of work and mental wellbeing. The major difference is that when you’re competing in life. The person who gets started first will have a better chance at succeeding than someone who doesn’t. This then can become a compound factor where the choices you make today can affect your tomorrow and future self.

The Benefits Of Just Starting

What Helps Productivity In Life Is Simply Just Starting — Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash

Just starting can lead to many benefits within your life.

If you apply just starting, over time you will see the true benefits of this strategy to your productivity and overall level of success in what you do.

How many times do people put off going to the gym or following their passion? From my experience, I hear it a lot. Compare this to someone who doesn’t make excuses or procrastinates enjoy major success. The hardest part is always getting started. But I hear it time and time again that after someone does start they always carry on and are glad they just started it. The unknown can be scary and that’s what can hold people off sometimes. But I’d rather live a life knowing it wasn’t the right thing rather than regretting I didn’t just start.

The Effect Just Starting Has On Productivity

Productivity can be improved just by starting straight away and can drastically improve your output. This leads to life-changing scenarios and mental health will be improved because you will be progressing as a person. What damages mental health is procrastination, regret and not following through.

Getting started straight away also allows you to improve your preparation too. By ticking off all your to-do lists and finishing all your objectives allows more free time to do the things you want with a mentally healthy mind.

There is a unique feeling you get when you just start something to know it’s ahead of schedule and don’t have to think about it again. That’s why just getting started gives you that great feeling of life.

How Can You Apply Just Starting Technique Today

1. Make It Easy

No one wants to start anything difficult, break it down and trick the brain by making it easy to start.

2. Set Alarms

You can have alarms set for when you want to start something. When your planning you always feel good to attack a goal. It’s only when you have to do it, emotions can change. So by setting an alarm, it’s a signal to the brain that you have to do it.

3. Fear Of Loss The Mind

When it comes to the time you have to start but your brain is trying to drag you to procrastination. You envision a future if you don’t do it. Scaring yourself of the future you will have if you don’t start is an effective way to move your mind into action. When humans backs are against the wall they usually act and succeed. Using this fear of loss strategy can work wonders in the short term.

4. Let The Feeling Of Not Doing It Flow

Trying to stop a feeling only allows the feeling to grow. But letting It flow through you and be ok with it helps it not control your future choices. When you do experience the feeling of procrastination just say NO to it and say your why to yourself. This helps create no struggle with your mind but redirects to what you really want to do.

5. Having Your WHY In Front Of You

Whether it’s posted notes of inspiration, your family or your vision board. Knowing what your WHY is can transform you into action. When we fully understand our WHY it becomes a non-negotiable feeling of things that have to get done.

6. Don’t Think, Just Do

When the brain is about to put negative ideas into your mind. Shut it down straight away and let that be the first sign of just starting. This trick allows you to know when it’s time to get to work.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting.

Just starting is so beneficial to the productivity and the future you vision for yourself. So many people waste their talents because they didn’t just start.

With the tips of how to get started, I have written above. I hope this gives you a clear strategy of how to implement it for yourself. But the choice always comes from within you. Only you can decide when to start. Once you know it’s your choice, you must act on it with everything in your life.

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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

What To Expect?

In today’s article, how the action of showing me, not telling me provides effective leadership. I will discuss how effective a leader is if they can show their, team, organisation or child how to do it rather than providing the theory of it. I hope this helps on your leadership journey.

Showing vs Telling

All of our life we are surrounded by people in leadership positions. From our parents, extended family to teachers early on in life. There’s a lot of information that gets thrown at our minds. Some stick and some don’t.

We all have different minds with a different approach to learning that makes us unique in our own way. As different humans are we are also very similar in many ways too.

When it comes to learning I have found that the approach of someone showing me how to do something is completely different to some telling me. When a teacher told me about how I should write in English. The theory was great for understanding what it means. But that did not prepare me to fully comprehend how to put it into action.

Through trial and error, you give it a go. But It takes a lot longer to learn as your just showing yourself what’s right and what’s not. Whereas when a leader shows you. Your mind can decipher the puzzle by seeing everything they do down to the tiniest detail.

What You See Is What You Get

I have many examples in my life where I see something been done that has helped me learn a lot faster than someone just telling me. It has led to quicker productivity.

In a social setting when I’m playing games and I’m stuck on a certain level. I type on google the walkthrough of the game. When I read what to do it takes a lot longer to process. Whereas a Youtube video, I can understand what to do much easier.

I have taught many people in a coaching role with a variety of different skills and when you focus just on the theory the chances of them understanding it and applying the information are slim.

Whereas when I show them how to do it repeatedly until they can do it themselves. The rate increases exponentially.

What The Science Says

There have been many studies that have shown the brain retains more information when it is shown visually.

According to Dr Lynell Burmark, an education consultant who writes and speaks about visual literacy: “…unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear. Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information (plus or minus 2). Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.”

Furthermore, this effect increases over time. One study found that after three days. A user retained only 10-20 per cent of written or spoken information but almost sixty-five per cent of visual information.

Another study showed that an illustrated text was nine per cent more effective than text alone when testing immediate comprehension and 83 per cent more effective when the test was delayed.

These studies show the power of our eyes seeing something get done rather than just hearing how to do it.

How Can You Become An Effective Leader

How The Action Of Showing Me, Not Telling Me Provides Effective Leadership — Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash

Being an effective leader requires you to focus on what the people your leading need. They don’t need you to tell them what to do, they need you to show them what to do.

A child will learn from the parents who sit down and show them how to do a maths equation. A university student will graduate with the theory of the subject but will only truly learn how to put that theory into action. When someone shows them how to do it first hand.

Remember people will follow the leaders who provide the example to follow not the instructions of how to do it. Nothing compares to seeing clearly how something is done compared to imaging how we think it should be done.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, how the action of showing me, not telling me provides effective leadership

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