Summary

Brendon Burchard, a renowned high-performance coach, outlines four productivity rules to enhance efficiency and goal achievement.

Abstract

Brendon Burchard, recognized as a leading high-performance coach, has shared his top productivity rules on his podcast. These rules are designed to accelerate achievement by focusing on core activities that yield results, prioritizing tasks that lead to significant growth, eliminating projects that won't start within 45 days, and ensuring the delivery of excellence in committed projects. Burchard emphasizes dedicating an extra hour daily to the three most impactful tasks, critically evaluating current activities for growth potential, and avoiding overcommitment by parking less immediate opportunities. These strategies aim to streamline productivity, reduce anxiety, and enhance focus, ultimately leading to more significant accomplishments by year's end.

Opinions

Burchard's approach to productivity is grounded in practicality and common sense, focusing on what works and eliminating distractions.
The "One More Hour per Day on Your Core Three Rule" suggests that incremental focus on proven successful activities can lead to better results.
The "Significant Growth Rule" encourages individuals to prioritize opportunities that contribute to substantial progress, deferring or rejecting those that do not.
The "45 Day Quit Rule" is proposed as a method to alleviate anxiety and procrastination by removing projects from consideration if they are not started within 45 days.
Burchard advises maintaining a "parking lot" journal for ideas and opportunities that are interesting but not immediately actionable, to clear mental space.
The "Deliver Excellence Rule" serves as a reminder to honor commitments and avoid overcommitting, which can dilute the quality of work and decision-making.
The overall sentiment is that by adhering to these rules, individuals can expect to end the year with a sense of accomplishment and focus.

The World's Leading High-Performance Coach's 4 Productivity Rules

Speed up your achievements by the end of the year.

The world's leading high-performance coach, Brendon Burchard, recently shared the productivity rules he swears by on his podcast.

I've been a fan of Burchard's work for a long time and appreciate his common sense and practical approach to being a high performer. I resonated and liked the rules he shared, and I think you will too.

Productivity is all about getting things done efficiently and effectively. Different strategies can help you become more productive, but the following tips are Burchard's most effective ones.

By following these tips, you should get more done in less time and achieve your goals faster than ever before.

These productivity rules work whether you're trying to be more productive in your business, personal life, or corporate job.

One More Hour per Day on Your Core Three Rule

First, identify the core three things right now that brought you results this past year. Some questions to ask yourself to help identify your core three :

What are the three primary revenue drivers you have right now?
What's been working?
What are the three absolute best things that are working for you?

Once you've determined what those three things are, give it one more hour a day.

Every day, dedicate one more hour. You can use that hour to focus on one of those three things, two of them, or maybe 20 minutes for each.

Once you've identified your core three, you need to clear out the distractions to help you find the time for that extra hour. Some questions to ask yourself :

How am I going to get that hour?
How am I going to divvy up that hour?

Significant Growth Rule

With the significant growth rule, you look at everything you're doing right now. Of all the things you're working on, which ones will lead to significant growth this year?

Once you've answered this question, you can start pushing out everything else on your calendar. It could be a few months from now, or you could move it to next year.

It's an opportunity to take a close look at all your activities, partnerships, relationships, and everything you're doing, and you ask yourself which ones are leading to significant growth.

If they are not leading to significant growth, you need to minimize the time spent on them.

The difference between a core three and a significant growth rule is that you already know the core three things you're doing to get results. The significant growth rule is for all the new ideas.

You will have people try to add things to your plate; there will be new opportunities come your way — if it won't lead to significant growth this year, you need to say no or move it to later.

But what if a new initiative comes your way that could lead to significant growth?

You need to ask yourself if you can add it to your workload. Remember, you've already committed to adding an hour a day to your core three.

“Significant growth is a way for you to prioritize and say no. It’s a way for you not to take on any new projects if you don’t believe they’ll lead to real growth by the end of the year.” — Brendon Burchard

45 Day Quit Rule

If there is a major project that you want to do that could lead to significant growth but that you won't be starting in the next 45 days, you should take it off your plate until next year.

If you're not going to start on this project, you're most likely not going to do it.

You'll feel so relieved. People tend to have a lot of anxiety because of everything they want to work on or that they've put on their list.

“When we have many projects on our plate that we want to do, what ends up happening is that anxiety leads to a lot of procrastination. That anxiety leads to a lot of poor prioritization because there’s so much to do.” — Brendon Burchard

You'll notice how freeing it is to release yourself from a project and how your life will get easier.

Your mind can now focus on your core three or significant growth items. Your confidence, motivation and focus will come back.

“Many people lose their focus because they have too long a to-do list.” — Brendon Burchard.

Consider having a 'parking lot' journal or notebook where you're able to put all the things you're interested in working on but that you're not going to tackle this year.

Because you've parked those ideas and opportunities in your notebook, it won't be a mental concern anymore. You won't have to worry about what you're not getting done anymore.

Deliver Excellence Rule

This rule is another great prioritization tool.

Suppose you have a big opportunity come your way. It could lead to significant growth, you could get it going in the next 45 days, but it might compromise the deliver excellence rule of other projects you've already committed.

Some questions you could ask yourself :

Would this initiative prevent me from delivering to what I already committed?
If I commit to this new opportunity, will it steal time away from something I've already promised to someone important to me?
Will it make me fail to deliver what I want to deliver?

It's human nature to over-commit ourselves, and it is stealing from our ability to make good choices.

Final Thoughts

Evaluate where you're at, what you're doing and what you can deliver.

It's impossible to deliver everything with excellence. It's time to go to your core three and deliver on those.

If something comes up and it's a great idea, but it leads to significant growth, or you're not going to start it in the next 45 days, park it.

If it is something that you could get going and would lead to significant growth, but it's going to get in the way of what you already promised, park it.

If you follow these rules, you will feel more accomplished by the end of the year.

To listen to the full podcast episode, you can find the Apple Podcast link here.

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