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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the need to find bottlenecks in our lives. Did you know that if you want to double your profits in a business, you don’t need to improve one area by 100%, you just need to improve seven different areas by 10%. And to make something 10% better is a lot easier to do than to make something 100% better. The law of diminishing returns is one of the reasons why going for 100% better is a lot harder to do than to go for 10% better.
By having a dual monitor, it can increase your productivity by 20 to 30 percent. And this is a lot. If a task takes ten minutes on your computer with one monitor, then let’s say you improve productivity by 30 percent so now that tasks take seven minutes, in one hour you can save 18 minutes, which is enough to do almost two additional tasks in one hour. Then in one workday, you can do 15 more tasks in a day and that is 75 more tasks in five days.
So as you can see, small changes can make a huge difference in the long run. I’ve been traveling from place to place as a digital nomad and I’m staying put for a while because of covid, and I just bought another monitor on Facebook Marketplace and my productivity has increased tremendously. I have to copy and paste things from different tabs at times or do a search on one application and then put that information in another application.
I also used to use the trackpad on my laptop and when I got a wireless mouse, my productivity has increased tremendously. Another trick is to increase the mouse pointing speed to the maximum. Everything takes a learning curve but once you get past it, then you can see real gains.
Say if you only need to do 50 tasks instead of 75 for the week, you can use that time for something else that can make you more valuable as a person. Sometimes the bottlenecks are people that you interact with. So you need to use proper communication and strategy to lead people out of the bottlenecks. A bottleneck can also be a parent and you just have let go of wanting their approval. Once this happens then you can start living your best life.
If you see a bottleneck, don’t accept it, try to figure out a way to remove it. Sometimes the technology isn’t there, but it’s with people, then raise your skills. Or hire someone who can do that thing for your life. The key thing is that the longer that a bottleneck last in your life, the more dissatisfaction you’re going to deal with.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, find the bottlenecks in your life and remove them. And you don’t have to remove them completely, just try to improve them by 10 percent at first. If you can remove a bottleneck completely, then go ahead and do that. And realize that many of the bottlenecks are going to be with yourself. Head trash that tells us negative thoughts can prevent us from being our best lives. It can also be your skills. If you type at 45 words per minute, then you should raise your skills up to 70 words per minute. This will save you a lot of time. The goal of life is not to work 24 hours a day, the goal is to finish our work and then spend our time on things that give us joy. Do this and life will be great.
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