Want to be More Productive? STOP Doing These 3 Things

Hey, it's Marie Forleo. So a lot of people ask me, "Marie, what does a day in your life look like?" And the truth is none of them look the same. It always is depending on what season it is and what my primary project is at the time. But what I can tell you is three things that I never do every single day. And those three things make me weirdly productive, passionate, and happy. Yes. Even after 20 years in business. Let's go.

Number one, I never start my day without a success plan. You might be saying, "Marie, what is a success plan?" Let me tell you. It is a way better version than a to-do list. So I'm going to show you mine right now. It's on a simple little notebook. This is like a $2 notebook. You don't need anything fancy or expensive. And I write down the most important things that I will get done the next day. So today's success plan. I write down the meetings that I have. Here, I know I had a little meeting with my friend Regina to help her out with her pricing. There were things I needed to do to prepare, I'm giving a couple of big talks coming up soon, so I have all of my notes to rehearse. I have my meetings in here, and then there's a little section at the end for personal stuff, like return my Rent the Runway and then I need to leave at 6:30 to get to a friend's place for dinner.

So I never walk into my day without my success plan. As someone who has ADHD, it's not a wise thing to walk into an open day and go, “Well, what do I feel like doing,” or, “What might be the most important.” Uh-huh. I'm the queen of reverse engineering and setting myself up to give myself the greatest chance possible for feeling successful every damn day.

Number two is I never or rarely sit still. So this is kind of interesting. I hope I'm not giving you motion sickness, but this is just the truth. You want to know the thing that I say the most often to my team? It's this. It's, "Hey guys, I'm pacing. Can you take notes?" And here's what I do. I talk to my team. I have my computer like this, and I'm literally holding it like it's a frigging pizza. And we're having meetings, and I can look at stuff. And the reason I do this is because energy gets stagnant when you sit around all day. At least my energy does. And some of my best ideas, some of the best copy that I've ever written, the best headlines, the best you name it, literally come to me while I am pacing around. So this is what I do.

I remember one time I was talking to my friend, Kris, and she's like, "Can you please sit down? You're giving me motion sickness." So I'm sorry that's happening for you right now. But look, if you're someone who has a lot of energy like me, and if you ever feel yourself just getting tired or stagnant, get up and walk yourself around, pace. Use your computer like it's a pizza and have your meetings on the go. Try it out.

Number three is I do not force myself to sit down and focus straight for eight hours a day. Why? Because A) I don't think our brains are built to do that. In fact, science shows that after about four hours of intense focus, most of us are pretty toast. So I like to take breaks during the day. It gets me and keeps me fresh. I'm going to go interrupt my man. I want to see if he's in here. Oh, what cha doing? I'm talking about the fact that I don't work for straight eight hours a day. That I take little breaks and do things like interrupt you.

So if you want to be weird like me, give these three things I never do a go. And if you love stuff like this, then you got to join us for Time Genius. Give me five days, and I will absolutely transform your life, guaranteed. I'm going to show you my exact morning routine, how I change it. I'm going to teach you a little tiny language trick that'll make it eight times more effective for you to drop any bad habit. We've had thousands of people come through and they get results so fast.

So you need to go to jointimegenius.com. I promise you it will change your life forever. And now I would love to hear from you. So if you have any weird things that you never do that help you stay happy and productive and stress-free, I want to know about it in the comments below. And if you aren't already in MF Insider, you need to get your butt on that email list. It's amazing. I send out great emails every Tuesday that will keep you motivated, inspired and on track. Until next time, stay on your game and keep going for your big dreams because the world really does need that very special gift that only you have. Thank you so much for tuning in, and I'll catch you next time.

Most of us have so much information coming to us at all different times from our computers, our texts, our emails, social media, you name it. There’s so much noise from the external world that we’ve forgotten that this beautiful version of us exists if we can actually hear it.