How To 10x Your Results As An Online Trainer

The topic that I'm going to take you through in today's video is about how you can 10X your output with less input. Now, what does that mean how to 10X your results, how to get more out of the time that you're putting into your business so you effectively can work ess than you currently are now and get 10 times the result? And, ultimately, there are so many people out there who are like, "I don't have enough time in the day. I got a list of to-dos massively. I never feel like I'm getting ahead." And at the end of the week or the end of the day, they sit and they're exhausted, tired, know that they've worked hard, but they look back and they're like, "I don't really feel like I've achieved much. I don't feel like I've moved further forward. I don't feel like I've had a successful week."

And that's pretty deflating. To be exhausted at the end of a day or end of a week and be like, "I know I worked hard, I know I put in a lot of hours, but for some reason I don't feel like I've actually ticked off anything important or moved further forward or solved any problems," or whatever it might be. And that's what this video's about, how to get more out of the time you're putting in so, effectively, you move forward faster, by the end of the week, by the end of the day, there's nothing more gratifying them being like, "You know what? I kicked ass this week. I've moved forward. I'm feeling good. I can't wait for next week," whatever it might be. That's about productivity and that's about getting stuff done in the time you allocate. And the technical term of that is how to get more output out of your input, how to get more out, out of what you put in.

Now, productivity is very, very important. There's a couple of books up there on productivity, some of my favourite ones. I've spent many, many years learning buying many courses, books, studying on the concept of productivity because, ultimately, we all only have 24 hours in the day and the time is a great equaliser. No matter how rich you are, no matter how poor you are, no matter where you live, whether you're in an affluent country, a poor country, I don't know, whether you have a huge IQ, whether you have a low IQ, whether you have, I don't know, short hair, long hair, whatever it might be, the great equaliser for all people is time. Because we all only have 24 hours in a day and within that time, you need to eat. You need to sleep. You need to spend time with family, friends. You need to enjoy life. And then you've got the time you allocate towards your business.

The stuff you put in to have impact in lives, to change lives, grow your business, and get the income that you deserve as a result of that, get paid what you're worth so you can use that monetary to do other things and enjoy life. And that's what business is all about. And that's why we're all here as entrepreneurs, ultimately, to be able to have more impact, earn more as a result of that impact, and actually work less or work on our passion projects, work on things that make us excited, that juice us up. Otherwise, you'd go get a job because, ultimately, a job, you can get paid at a job, but you have no control over what you work on and you have to be there the allocated hours, not a minute less. Otherwise, your boss would scream at you or whatever it might be. So, ultimately, as entrepreneurs, our goal is how to have more impact, get more income, and actually work less than we would at a job.

Because then we can work in areas of passion, we can help more people, we can earn more, but we don't actually have to punch the clock day in and day out and have a boss that kicks our ass if we're a minute late or a minute early, no matter what your outputs are. And that's one of the things I found most craziest in the corporate world is that people are like, "Oh, I've got to be at work at 8:00 and I've got to finish at 5:00 or 6:00. Can't be a minute earlier." But then you've got people who are very unproductive, who get very little done in those hours, and then you've got people who are phenomenally productive, who get more done in those hours than other people do in a week. But at a job, you still have to sit there and stare at the screen for the allocated hours. It's got nothing to do with your output.

As an entrepreneur, the most important thing that you have control over is your productivity. Because if you get more done, more focused, it doesn't matter how long you sit down and stare at your screen or your phone or whatever it might be, because you can have more impact, get more income, and actually work less. So that's why productivity's key. You've got tools. You've got methods. You've got strategies for growing businesses, getting clients, but productivity is the glue that pulls it all together. Without being able to be productive and focused, you don't get any of it done. It doesn't move you forward. So, in terms of productivity, I've got a couple of hacks and aspects on how to improve that. Now, the key to productivity is realising, one of my favourite books that I've read on this, I've read many, like I said, is a book called Indistractable, and the concept of this book is how to identify distractions.

There are distractions everywhere in your life. In every minute, in every second, in every hour, every day of your life, there are distractions. There are good distractions and there are low quality, low yielding, bad distractions, And the key to being able to label what is the distraction and what isn't is you being able to discern which certain thing is pulling you away from what's your priority at that given time. It's being able to label, what are your priorities? And it's being able to identify things that take you away from getting from where you want to be point A to where you want to be point B. And I'm going to talk specifically around business on this, but you can use this in every aspect of life, You've got to figure out what your priority is, what your goal is, and you're going to go, "Okay, I'm here today, I'm in point A, and I want to get to point B. All of the things that slow me down from getting point A to point B, they are distractions."

Now, once again, you can have distractions that you are happy with and you can have distractions that you are not happy with. We need to identify what they are so you can then identify the ones you're happy with in your life to slow you down and the ones you're not happy with to slow you down. Now, let me give you some examples of that. It probably sounds a little bit weird, but ones might be like your family or your friends. You might be like, "Okay, well, I'm at point A and I want to get to point B in my business." And me, myself, I've just had a new son, my wife gave birth to a son, our second son, about 10 weeks ago. And there's times where I'm totally happy. I love spending time with him. I'm seeing him grow. It's the one thing that I love about my business and being able to have the freedom that I do and be around for all of that sort of stuff.

So there's times where I'm totally happy to have the "distraction" of having to, I don't know, taking him for a walk or, I don't know, read him a book or whatever it might be, the quality things in life that I like. And then there's bad distractions. Bad distractions are things like reading the news, constantly reading the news, checking your social media multiple times throughout the day where it isn't tied to your goal, your phone pinging WhatsApp, WhatsApp messages, having your phone on loud, your emails. So many people who have computers have notifications on their computer. So it's constantly going, "Ping. Ping," or on the phone, "Ping. Ping." And you might be doing some deep work on some really important stuff and you get an email from a friend about, "Oh, what are you doing on Friday?"

Or you might get an email from a company that's sending you spam stuff, an even better example, that's totally not of interest to you, totally not of value to you. But that little ping takes your attention and you go and check the email and you think, "Oh cool. I've just deleted it. I'll get back to what I want to get to now." They've done studies. The average human takes 22 minutes to refocus properly on what they were doing before when they get distracted. Now, let me give you that example that I just referred to then. Just say you're doing some work, it's super important to your business looking to move you forward, some big, important stuff, and you've got your computer open or your phone and you get "Bing" and it's a spammer trying to sell you weird stuff. And you go check it. It gets your attention.

You're working super hard. It gets your attention. You go and delete it. Go back to all your work. It takes you 22 minutes to get solely, completely, deeply back to where you were before. That's 22 minutes of lost life because a spammer sent you an email or someone sent you a WhatsApp message about something that isn't important right now and you can deal with this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Or, I don't know, someone sent you a DM, a random person sent you a DM on Facebook, on Instagram or whatever the hell it might be, they're distractions. That's slowing you down from going point A to point B and it's not improving your life in any way, shape, or form. So you need to be able to identify these distractions and you need to be able to put together techniques and tactics to cut them away from your life.

Now, one thing that I really like saying people when they're like, "Oh, I'm super busy. I don't have time to do this or that. I wish I did," pull out your phone and go in through the settings and you can actually check now how much time you spend on your phone per day, how much time you spend on certain apps per day. And you're probably sitting there going, "Yeah, I know that exists, Chris." Whip it out today and actually have a look at it. Actually, look. And most people, I would say 99% of people, would look at that and go, "Shit, do I actually spend that much time on doing that or doing that or looking at the news or picking up my phone and scrolling social media?" You will see literally hours per day of lost life, really, lost productivity. Now, there are important stuff that you can get on social media. You get in, you get out.

I'm using social media as an example. I don't know, other things, you'll go on your phone, you'll see how you use apps and how long you are looking at your phone, how many times you pick it up per day. And that's being conscious, first and foremost. The first thing to being more productive is being conscious about your wastage. Second point is deciding, what are distractions and what are distractions you're happy with? And once you decide the ones you're not happy with, how to cut them away, how to put tactics and strategies around that. Now, there are apps you can put on your phone. These are couple of my favourite things. You can put apps on your phone that literally block ads when you're on social media, they're distractions, or YouTube or whatever it might be, or news sites, stuff you're not interested in.

You've got apps that allow you to block certain time usage for certain apps. So, for example, if you want to reduce your usage of something, you can put a cap on it for two minutes a day. And as soon as it hits two minutes, it blocks it and you cannot use it again. Once again, if that helps you get away from the addiction of time wastage. So that's locking down your distractions, taking away notifications, putting your phones on silent, computers on silent, emails not showing up, you've got badges that show, some people still have silent and they think they're doing well, but then you've got badges on iPhones that just scroll down every time someone texts you or sends you a message or something happens on social media. Same on emails, get rid of those as well. And, ultimately, when you're really digging deep into the deep stuff, get rid of your phone altogether. Unless you're working on your phone, hide your phone.

They've done studies around that as well that it literally drains your energy. Having a phone sitting next to you and not picking it up, drains a portion of your energy and your willpower every single day, because you've got to use willpower to go, "No, I'm not going to pick it up. I'm not going to pick it up." So some people think they're productive. They've got it there or they've got it on silent. Hide it and go, "I'm going to lock down for an hour and I'm going to get the stuff I need to get done." Of course, if you've got an important call from a family member, whatever it might be, take it. But cut away those small, little things. So these are how to reduce distractions. You can say to family members, you can say to work colleagues, "Hey, I'm about to do some really important work. I'm going to just dive in for an hour. If it's not super important, can you just wait till after the hour and then we can have a chat about it then?" Little things like that.

Another thing that I'm a big fan of is you can put order reminders on your emails and it can say, for example, "I only respond to emails after 5:00 p.m. or between 4:00 and 5:00 PM." And that's really, really awesome because it stops someone emailing you, you emailing them back, and then a ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, and all of a sudden you've wasted a lot of time. Truncating down when you do work, planning your day, it's very, very important for productivity. Now, I've got some amazing productivity hacks and tips on how to piece together your week your most important tasks. There's two key things here that I've got. If you're interested in it and you want to increase your productivity, I really, really recommend it. It looks simple. It's on a book, but literally I've paid tens of thousand of dollars to learn in these hacks and tricks.

Two very important ones. One, how to plan out your week. And I've just shown you then because you've got two pages. You've got a page of all your to-dos and then you break down your full week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or however many days you work, or whatever it might be. And you take all your activities and you place them on a day based on priority. The first thing is the highest priority. And you work your way down. And that's how you plan out your week. But the second part to this, which is really, really important is, how to identify high yielding activities. Now, everyone has to-do lists, but the problem with to-do lists is you generally just go from top to bottom. Just because you thought of that one first, you write that there. You thought of that one second, you write that there. So on and so forth, and people work from their top to the bottom.

But, unfortunately, sometimes on that list there are things that are phenomenally important and the things that are not important at all, like if you didn't do them this week, next week, nothing would matter whereas there's other stuff that, if you've got it done this week, it would move you forward in leaps and bounds. And, unfortunately, people just don't identify what are called the high yielding tasks. They just look at it as tasks and they just try and get through their task list. But how to be 10X more productive is only and firstly work on the stuff that are going to move you forward in leaps and bounds, and forget the little stuff. It's called big rocks, little rocks, how to identify what are the big rocks and what are the little rocks? I've got an amazing calculator tool that I give to all my client. If that's of interest to you and you have trouble around identifying an activity and its yield capacity, this is phenomenal.

It'll allow you to take you to-do list, put in those activities, and identify which activity you should work on first because it's going to give you the biggest output, and what you should work on second, what you should work on third, and what you should forget, you can almost cross off your list because it's a low yielding, low output task. Because I see way too many people spending hours on things and at the end of it, they're like, "Oh cool, I've got that," and they tick it off and you ask them, "Hmm. Was that really important? Did that really do anything in your business or you just wanted to tick it off your list?" And they're like, "Yeah, you're right. I just wasted an hour and now I don't have time to do the thing that I really needed to get done."

So being able to identify high yielding tasks in your to-do list, prioritise your tasks, and then do your [inaudible 00:17:05] throughout your week. It's extremely important. It's two exercises. If that's of interest to you, you can email me, [email protected], or you can send me PM or DM, whatever acronym you want to use, and I'll send them to you for free. You'll absolutely love them and, honestly, these two things, just these two simple things will teach you exactly how to become more productive with your time. It's what I've done for the last five years and it's moved me forward in leaps and bounds. Hopefully, that makes sense. Have an amazing day and, like I said, if you've got any questions, you can hit me up on that. I'll send you those free tactics and get you moving forward faster. That's it for me.