10x Your Productivity Archives

Your Brain Prefers Lazy Tasks—Here’s What You Can Do About It

by Parker Houston | May 30, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” –Mark Twain Today’s BIG IDEA—Research shows that our brains generally prefer lazy...

9 Elite Productivity Tips

by Parker Houston | Feb 14, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

Hi guys and happy Friday! This will be the final post in the 10x Your Productivity series. This post includes some incredible expert tips that did not fit neatly into previous posts. When we started this series, we started with the idea that real productivity is about...

Disentangle Yourself From Device Addiction

by Parker Houston | Feb 7, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity, Self Leadership

Hi guys and happy Friday! If the photo above looks anything like dinner with your family, your time alone, or a recent meeting you had with your team—this post is for you. This series is all about maximizing your productivity at work, and in life. And I believe it is...

The Most Productive People Work in Their Strength Zones

by Parker Houston | Jan 31, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

Hi guys and happy Friday! If you want to maximize your productivity, you need to spend more time in your strength zones. In this post, I will highlight the research that explains why this is vitally important, then give you practical steps you can take to get yourself...

Harness the Awesome Power of Morning Routines

by Parker Houston | Jan 24, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity, Self Leadership

Hi guys and happy Friday! If you truly want to supercharge your productivity, you cannot overlook the importance of morning routines. Morning routines are consistently cited by some of the world’s most successful people—elite entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Olympic...

The 80-20 Rule

by Parker Houston | Jan 17, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

Hi guys and happy Friday! “If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.” —Tim Ferriss No productivity series would be complete without a discussion of The 80-20 Rule, also referred to as The Pareto Principle. Here is today’s BIG IDEA—A minority of your actions...

The Importance of Being Unproductive

by Parker Houston | Jan 10, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

Hi guys and happy Friday! If you think you read that title wrong—you didn’t. Here is today’s BIG IDEA—In order to be wildly productive, you need designated periods of being wildly unproductive. At the beginning of this series, I asked you a question—If you were so...

Create Your Ideal Week

by Parker Houston | Jan 3, 2019 | 10x Your Productivity

Ideal Week Template Hi guys and happy New Year! Last week we talked about time blocking. This week I want to go a little deeper with the Ideal Week Template. Here is today’s BIG IDEA: “Don’t prioritize your schedule, schedule your priorities.” –Stephen Covey A few...

Time Blocking—Why It Works

by Parker Houston | Dec 28, 2018 | 10x Your Productivity

Several years ago, I heard Stephen Covey say something that changed my life—he said that if something is going to get done, it must occupy a physical space in your calendar. Now this sounds really simple—but how often do you say you are going to do something and it...

Stop Multitasking

by Parker Houston | Dec 21, 2018 | 10x Your Productivity

Hi guys and Happy Holidays! Today’s BIG IDEA—Once you have recognized the importance of carefully investing your time, decided what is most important at work and at home, and you’ve started saying NO to a lot of stuff—then you need to stop multitasking and do one...

The most important word ever—“NO”

by Parker Houston | Dec 15, 2018 | 10x Your Productivity

Last week we discussed the vital importance of knowing what your most important goals are in your personal and professional life—the direction you want to go. That is the foundation for this week’s lesson. “It is the super-achievers, and only the super-achievers, who...

Direction is more important than speed

by Parker Houston | Dec 9, 2018 | 10x Your Productivity

One morning in 1972 Yogi Berra awakened his wife and three sons and piled them into the car to drive to his Hall of Fame ceremony. They were in a bit of a hurry, and it soon became apparent he had taken a wrong turn somewhere. He accelerated, hoping he would make it...