Clip: Josh Mueller of Cutco on Brendon Burchard’s Daily Productivity Planner

Clip from Episode 15 featuring Josh Mueller of Cutco Cutlery and Vast Action, Inc.:

I learned from a mentor, Brendon Burchard, that the best way to strategize is to use what he calls the daily productivity sheet. It’s like a worksheet. I think you can download it on the website. You download this worksheet. You fill it out. I don’t necessarily fill out the worksheet everyday anymore, but it’s how I think about my day. It’s how I plan my day. It’s what are the three biggest projects I’m working on right now? What are the things that are must do to get done on those projects right now? You list those things out. Who are the people that I need to get in touch with today, that I need to reach out to to help me move these projects forward? Who are the people that I’m waiting to hear back from that I probably need to follow-up with again? Then, what are my priorities for the day? What are the things in those projects, outside those projects, around those projects… those things that gotta get done no matter what. All those things  go on a list. He calls it the daily productivity planner, that’s what it is. It’s just about going through and doing those things. Working that stuff out. That’s where that fifteen minutes of strategy everyday comes in. Figuring all that stuff out and then just following through on executing that stuff, and if there’s time at the end of the day. Then cool. I’ll do other things I need to do: check my email or work on other projects of whatever. That’s a huge thing. Time blocking is huge…