Ser altamente produtivo pode operar milagre na vida de alguém / Being highly productive can operate miracle on somebody's life

Português / English below

Na minha recente experiência eu aprendi que ser altamente produtivo pode operar milagre na vida de alguém. 

É um hábito (não é fácil desenvolver), que deve ser cultivado com disciplina, mas uma vez que você o tem como parte de suas habilidades operacionais, será capaz de: 

• cumprir muito mais tarefas em menos tempo; 
• parar a procrastinação de te parar; 
• ficar motivado pelo efeito de realizar mais tarefas e atingir metas importantes; 
• ser mais focado; 
• liberar tempo para as tarefas de gestão (plano, priorizar, comunicar, negociar, treinador ...) e de lazer; 
• sentir-se bem sucedido e ajudar outros a fazer o mesmo. 

A fim de ser altamente produtivo pode ser necessário (não exaustivo): 

• ter uma forte razão (desejo) em mente, que irá fornecer-lhe a energia, motivação e consistência para mudar hábitos (veja o post "Onde há uma razão, há determinação e um caminho"); 
• tirar proveito das ferramentas e metodologias, tais como (ver post "Recursos com o potencial de mudar a sua vida"): 
• Evernote, para ajudá-lo a libertar a sua mente de se preocupar com tarefas importantes a fazer (agendar lembretes); armazenam informações usando a câmera do smartphone para uma fácil recuperação (notas de reuniões, documentos importantes ...). 
• Fluxo Kanban juntamente com Get Things Done (GTD) metodologia para ajudar você a gerenciar e priorizar tarefas ad hoc; 
• MS Project ou SaaS, como Gantter, para ajudar você a manter o controle de conjunto complexo de tarefas (projetos). 
• definir e escrever metas SMART e usar pistas visuais em lugar estratégico onde você pode vê-las todos os dias; 
• prática do foco por meio da meditação; 

A lista acima não pretende ser como uma receita pronta, mas sim um compartilhamneto de alguns elementos que funcionaram comigo e pode funcionar com você também. 

Experimente-o e adapte-o às suas preferências! 

Eu posso te dizer que vale a pena.

Boa sorte!

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In my recent experience I learned that being high productive can operate miracle on somebody's life.

It's a habit (not easy to develop) that must be nurtured with discipline, but once you have it as part of your operating skills, will be able to:

• fulfill much more tasks in less time;
• stop procrastination from stopping you;
• get motivated by the effect of accomplishing more tasks and achieving important goals;
• get more focused;
• free up time to management tasks (plan, prioritize, communicate, negotiate, coach ...) and leisure;
• feel successful and help others do the same.

In order to be highly productive you may need to (not exhaustive):

• have a strong reason (desire) in mind that will provide you with the energy, motivation and consistency to change habits (see the post "Where there is a why, there is a will and a way");
• take advantage of tools and methodologies such as (see post "Resources with the potential to change your life"):
• Evernote, to help you free up your mind from being worried about important tasks to do (schedule reminders); store information using smartphone camera for easy retrieval (meeting notes, important documents ...).
• Kanban flow together with Get Things Done (GTD) methodology to help you manage and prioritize adhoc tasks;
• MS Project or a SaaS, such as Gantter, to help you keep track of complex set of tasks (projects).
• set and write SMART goals and use visual clues in strategic place where you can see it everyday;
• practice focus by meditating;

The above list is not intended to be as an one-size-fits-all recipe, but rather, a sharing of a couple of elements that worked with me and may work with you too.

Experience it and adapt it to your preferences!

I can tell you that it's worth a while.

Best of luck!

Quando não se tem uma mensagem, qualquer gráfico serve

Neste post compartilho dicas sobre como comunicar eficazmente por meio de gráficos.

As dicas são baseadas no livro "The Say It With Charts - Complete Tool Kit", de Gene Zelaszni, Diretor de Comunicação Visual da renomada consultoria de negócios Mckinsey & Company.

Zelazni, estabelece três etapas da construção de um gráfico:

• Identifique a mensagem;
• Indentifique a comparação; e
• Escolha o gráfico;

A etapa 1 é passo mais importante e geralmente é negligenciado por analistas. Trata-se da escolha da mensagem ou o famoso termo inglês "So What?", que numa tradução livre para o português significa: "E então?" ou "O que tem para me dizer?", ou ainda "Qual é a mensagem que deseja passar?".

Assim como 'quando não se tem um destino, qualquer caminho serve', 'quando não se tem uma mensagem, qualquer gráfico serve'.

Os demais passos consistem em identificar o tipo de comparação e selecionar o tipo de gráfico mais adequado, formatando-o de acordo em linha com a mensagem escolhida. 

Ao final, preprarei uma página contendo os 5 elementos básicos de um gráfico: título do gráfico e dos eixos 'x" e 'y'; rótulo de valores; quebra de escala e fonte da informação.

Recomendo a leitura do livro para obter informações adicionais, tais como, as variações dos 5 tipos básicos de gráficos e dicas de formatação deles para enfatizar a mensagem que deseja.

Boa leitura!

Highlights of the 8 Traits of Successful People

In this post I share a little bit more of Richard St John's work on the quest for the Success Formula.

You can find the e-book on Amazon for further details.

Highlights of the 8 Traits of Successful People

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Passion

• Passion is a starting point
• Successful people love what they do
• Passion turns underachievers into super achievers
• The big challenge is find your passion
• To find passion, explore many paths
• Falling into your calling
• Follow your HEART no your wallet
• Do it for love. Money come anyways

Work

• Successful people work really hard
• Become work frolics not workaholics
• Have fun working
• It’s not easy for anybody
• Often work long hours
• Forget TGIF. Think TGIW ( Thank God I’m Working )
• Hard work tops talent
• Work ethic
• Trust that hard work will pay off

Focus

• Focus on one thing
• Go wide then focus
• Stop dabbling in many things
• Create a single minded focus
• Great companies focus
• Develop the ability to concentrate
• Eliminate distractions
• IDD – Interest Deficit Disorder

Push

• Push Yourself
• Push yourself through Shyness
• Push through Self- Doubt
• Something that can push you
• Goals
• Challenges
• Deadlines
• Discipline
• Others
• Tor-mentors and mentors
• Push out of your comfort Zone

Ideas

• Ideas Light the way to success
• Everyone is Creative
• How to Get Ideas
• Have Challenge That Need to be Solved
• Look Around
• Listen
• Ask Questions
• Borrow and Idea
• Make Connections
• Mistakes and Failures Lead to Idea
• Write Down Ideas Before they Fly Away

Improve

• Keep Improving
• Get Good at What You Do
• Make it Better, Better, Better
• Aim to do Your Best
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• REPS: Repetition to Excess Produces Success
• Focus on Your Strengths
• Outsource Your Weaknesses
• One Word Business Plan: Improve

Serve

• Serve Other Something of Value
• Who Do You Serve?
• What Value to You Serve?
• Serving Others Will Give You a Rich Life
• Serving Others s How People Really get Rich
• The Formula to Get Rich
• To Be A Better Server:
• Forget About Yourself Focus on Others
• Put Yourself in Other People’s Shoes
• See the Other Person’s Perspective
• Listen to the People You Serve
• Big Ego Makes a Poor Server
• Bend Over Backwards

Persist

• Be Persistent
• Persist Through:
• Time
• Failure
• Mistake
• Criticism
• Rejection
• Nine Strategies to Persist:
• Take Small Steps
• Quitophobia
• Never Give Up
• Bounceability
• Stubbornosis
• Impatiently Patient
• Don’t Look Back
• Persist Through Unbalances Times
• RFM – Relentless Forward Motion

Where there is a why, there is a will and a way

Today I'm sharing some information about the importance of identifying the meaning of one's life as way to boost energy level / motivation and strengthen resilience.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
 Friedrich Nietzsche

Recently I got in touch with the book "Man's Search for Meaning" written by Viktor Frankl - an Austrian psychiatrist -, during the period he was a prisoner in concentration camps on WWII.

In his book, Viktor writes about the brutal experience he had in concentration camps and how the inhospitable environment affected prisoners in different ways:

• Those who gave up on life and lost faith were the first ones to die;
• Others, a small number, were able to survive despite the harsh psychological and physical conditions they were faced every day.
• Viktor managed to survive keeping hope alive by thinking about good times he had spent with his wife, the prospect of seeing her again and the dream of lecturing about psychological lessons from Auschiwitz experience.

Fact is that, when we find meaning in life we are able to resist during difficult times and to find ways to overcome obstacles to fulfill our dreams.

Below I selected some of the passages from the book and quotes from Mr. Frankl:

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” 

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times."

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” 

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” 

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” 

Finally, based on Mr. Frankl lesson I would adapt the old English saying: "Where there is a will, there is a way" to:

"Where there is a why, there is a will and a way"

Positive Psicology: Happiness Advantage

(Excerpt from TED Talk - Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work)

Broken Formula of Success: If I work harder, I'll be more successful. And if I'm more successful, then I'll be happier.

It's scientifically broken and backwards for two reasons. First, every time your brain has a success, you just changed the goalpost of what success looked like.  The real problem is our brains work in the opposite order.

If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral or stressed. Your brain at positive is 31 percent more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

Which means we can reverse the formula. If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present,then our brains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently.

We've found that there are ways that you can train your brain to be able to become more positive. In just a two-minute span of time done for 21 days in a row, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully. 

• Write down three new things that you're grateful for for 21 days in a row, three new things each day. And at the end of that, your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world, not for the negative, but for the positive first.

• Journaling about one positive experience you've had over the past 24 hours allows your brain to relive it.

• Exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters. We find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand.

• Random acts of kindness are conscious acts of kindness. We get people, when they open up their inbox, to write one positive email praising or thanking somebody in their social support network.

11:54And by doing these activities and by training your brain just like we train our bodies, what we've found is we can reverse the formula for happiness and success, and in doing so, not only create ripples of positivity, but create a real revolution.
Check the TED talk for more details:

Resources with the potential to change your life

English:

• An e-learning Course that really convinced me to put a lot of effort to be more productive. Full instruction and strategies to accomplish it: Ninja Productivity (only in portuguese). 
• 3 very useful methodologies that helped me be more productive: Getting Things Done (GTD), Kanban and  PDCA. 
• Two tools that supported me be more productive: Evernote and Kanban Flow

Português:

• Curso de e-learning realmente me convenceu a colocar um monte de esforço para ser mais produtivo. Cheio de instruções e estratégias para realizá-lo: Produtividade Ninja.
• 3 metodologias bastante úteis que ajudaram a tornar-me mais produtivo: Getting Things Done (GTD), PDCA e Kanban.
• 2 ferramentas que me apoiaram ser mais produtivo: Evernote e Kanban Flow.

Presente: estudar "A Classe Alta" (classe alta) e-learning, com o objetivo de escapar de armadilhas de consumo pela mudança de hábitos em direção a melhores decisões financeiras.

Próximo: método SCRUM para projetos ágeis.

Esclarecedor e inspirador: "8 traços das pessoas bem sucedidas".

8 traits of successful people - Richard St. John

Assisti aos vídeos e estou lendo o livro. Richard St. John entrevistou mais de 1.000 pessoas bem sucedidas de diversos campos de atuação, muitas delas "celebridades", e identificou um padrão de comportamento comum. Recomendo!

Watched the video and reading the book. Richard St John interviewed more than 1K well succeeded people from diverse fields, many if them "celebrities", and identified a pattern of behavior. Recommend it!

Ten years of research and 500 face-to-face-interviews led Richard St. John to a collection of eight common traits in successful leaders around the world.