Ultimate productivity - be the best version of yourself

If procrastination, lack of motivation or fear of failure are the reasons you can't succeed, then get ready to finish all your projects and stick to your new year resolutions !

Being successful is a choice ! Yes, you read it right, it's a choice. And you're the only one able to change your life. 

In this course you will learn:

How to identify the reasons or people that made you fail

How to finally get things done by motivating yourself with awesome tricks

How to identify good hobbies and time-wasting hobbies

How to stop wasting your time by analyzing the way your day goes

Good news, if you're WILLING to become successful, you already made a big step that most people don't do. 

This is a condensed course giving a little bit of information about a lot of subjects on the theme of motivation and productivity

After completing this course, fill the 'report-PDFO' document and upload it to see your progress! I will review them on a weekly basis.

After completing this course, fill the 'report-PDFO' document and upload it to see your progress! I will review them on a weekly basis.

Lecture 1: Introduction

The 5 sections of the course :

The first section is about trying to find out what is stopping you and why you failed previously.

The second section is about starting to act the right way to get things done. We will learn to get started with your new plan and stick to it.

Section three is about observing yourself to understand your bad habits and correct them.

Section four is about time and how to stop wasting it.

Section five will be the last section, it’s about taking a break and following a pattern of work and reward.

Recommendations :

- Work on one concept a day. 

- Don’t rush through

- Be honest with yourself

- Look for things to improve your life, don't expect to find them just like that

Video player commands :

Use B to take notes 

You can go back 15 seconds or forward 15 seconds

You can change the speed of the video

Use the left click, Enter or Space to pause 

Use Q to see questions

Use F to go full screen

Use C to see the curriculum

Lecture 2: Who are you?

You need to know who you are. What I’m interested in is your level of motivation. So tell me, who are you?

What was the last time you succeeded? When was the last time you failed?

Take a piece of paper and write down what was your latest success in life. 

Now that you have written the recent failure and success, rewind and think of all the failures and success you had for the last twelve months. 

On the bottom of the page, write what your last year goals were.

Lecture 3: Who am I ?

My name is Emilie, I often write it the English way. I was born in Brussels, Belgium. I currently live in the southside of Belgium, in a city between Brussels and the French border. Most of my close family members are French and English speakers.

This is the promise I made myself in December 2016, after failing my goals in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015:

“Emily, you will lose some weight, get a job, be nicer to people, read books and create courses online” Well, in January, I lost 15 pounds. In April, I got a job. In June, I published my first course. In August, I published my second course. In October, I published my third course. Living in the Southside of Belgium can come with some risks, so I cut ties with bad people around me and got happier. I started reading more books and felt better with the new me, the successful me.

The only reason why I got successful and motivated is because I learned life the hard way. You don’t have to learn the hard way, you can learn from the ones who learned before you.

Lecture 4: What is stopping you?

Now that you wrote down all the things you failed recently, you can understand the importance of writing things down. Writing down a failure gives you the opportunity to analyze it. 

Go back to that list of failures, and pick the biggest one. Start answering the following questions. Take your time. The more you write down, the better we can analyze it.

Why did you fail?

Is there anyone that tried to stop you from accomplishing your goals?

Is there any physical object that stopped you from accomplishing your goals?

How did your friends and family react when they realized you failed?

Did you fail on purpose? Were you scared of changement?

What was your motivation to succeed? Where did that motivation when you tried to reach your goals?

Where is that motivation now that you know you failed?

What was your method to reach your goal? What habits did you change?

Why DO YOU THINK it didn’t work?

Now that you have all these questions answered, you can realize the importance of taking the time to write things down and analyzing them. Do that for every time you think you need to understand why you failed. It will help you.

Lecture 5: Yes you can

When I was studying psychology at university in 2014, I had a crazy teacher. One day, she said :

“Do you know why you’re here? You’re here because this morning, you woke up and that little voice in your head told you to stay in bed, but you didn’t listen, you got up, and went to class. Some people listened to that voice and they’re not here right now, they’re the weak ones”. 

We all have that little voice that says “five more minutes” or “I’ll do my homework later”… And learning to not listen to that little voice is the first step to success. 

You need to focus on the good things that you hear in your head. Listen to gut feelings but not lazy commands. You might ask “Well, what if I want to skip workout day because I’m tired, is that bad?” “What if I want to play video games because it’s my passion, but it takes a lot of my time”.

Think about the middle choice. You want to skip workout because you had a tiring day? Why not do a little less exercise than usual? That way you won’t be dead tired, and you still did a little bit of sport. You want to finish that game you love so bad? Set a timer or play after you did your work of the day and your chores. 

Lecture 6: The two steps to get started

In this lecture, we’ll talk about how to start getting this done. We’ll do it in two steps. The first step is writing your own file. 

Here’s what you’ll need to fill for that report. Don’t worry, you don’t have to make it public, but it’s always better to compare with other people, so they can give feedback.

Alright, let’s focus on that report, you need to write down:

-     Who wrote the report (it can be someone close to you, or yourself)

-     Your first name

-     Your last name

-     Your age

-     Your level of motivation right now

-     Your latest failure

-     Your known skills

-     Your known flaws

-     Your current goals

-     The actions you’ll take to reach that goal

Please pause this video while you’re working on that file, or come back as soon as you’re done working. Take your time, working on yourself is the most important thing.

Lecture 7: Pick a motto and a mentor

The second step will be to pick a motto and a mentor. 

I picked Roman philosopher Seneca. I picked him because he wrote really interesting quotes in “On the shortness of life”. Seneca said “It’s not that we have so little time, but that we waste much of it”. That gave me motivation, because I’m the kind of person who wastes a lot of time. 

I have picked my mentor and use his quotes as my motto.

Now, who are you going to pick? It can be anyone personally inspiring you, someone from your family, a historic figure, or even a religious figure, as long as it gives you motivation, you’re good. You have to adapt everything around you to motivate you.