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Managing Your Energy

Managing Your Energy

Total video time: 36m
Award-winning instructor: Mike Vardy
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What you’ll learn

Make sense of your workflow
Understand why to-do lists don't work
Determine your prime and low times of the day
Discover a better way to organize tasks
How to pair tasks to varying energy levels
Explore tools to help you automate

Skills you’ll gain

Time management Automation Prioritization Productivity

To be a consistently high performer, you have to manage your energy, not just your time. In this course, you'll learn all about this often-neglected aspect of productivity and how to maximize your energy to improve efficiency and bring your best performance to everything you do. By better managing your energy, you can achieve results that can be far superior to the incremental gains you might get from time management techniques. Taught by productivity strategist Mike Vardy, you'll discover how productivity bends to the whims of your energy and what to do about it. you'll learn how to harness your body clock, how to determine your best and worst energy segments of the day, and how to marry tasks with your varying energy levels. By incorporating the strategies in this course, you'll have more control over your time and get more things done.

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    You're managing the wrong thing To be a consistently high performer, you have to manage your energy, not just your time. 1m
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    Making sense of your workflow Before you can start applying energy effectively, you need to get in touch with your workflow. 3m
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    Why your to-do list doesn't work If you're only using a to-do list to manage your tasks, you're missing out on something much bigger. 3m
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    A better way to organize When you're organized, you're more effective. After watching this lesson, you'll be able to follow a clear plan to get (and stay) organized. 4m
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    The optics of your day The way you manage your time over a day varies from person to person. 2m
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    Being absolute with your body clock Your body is already working in a rhythm to keep you awake and productive. 4m
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    Prime time We all have peaks and valleys of our energy. After watching this lesson, you'll be able to identify where you are at your most effective 2m
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    Effective times, effective tasks Once you understand your most effective times, you must take the step to assign tasks accordingly. 3m
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    Pairing energy with your to-do list The to-do list can have a place in your workflow when you use your body clock and peak effectiveness times. 2m
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    Advanced techniques There are next-level strategies that you can use to be more effective. 3m
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    Tools to help you automate Getting into the habit of using your energy effectively gets easier when you use tools. 3m
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    Manage your energy, manage your life Thanks for checking out this course. 1m

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded upon successful completion of the course.

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Instructor

Mike Vardy

Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker, productivity strategist, and founder of Productivityist.Productivityist offers coaching, workshops, and tools that help professionals craft their time and be more productive. Mike and the Productivityist team produce hundreds of blog articles, as well as a popular podcast. Mike is also the author of three books: The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want and The Productivityist Playbook, as well as TimeCrafting: A Better Way to Get the Right Things Done, to be released in June 2020 by Mango Publishing.

Founder of Productivityist Mike Vardy

Mike Vardy

Founder of Productivityist

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How GoSkills helped Chris

I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.

Chris Sanchez GoSkills learner
Chris Sanchez, GoSkills learner