<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[One Productivity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get your free, 5 min daily newsletter. Used by 8k+ people to master procrastination and get things done.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png</url><title>One Productivity</title><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:23:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://oneproductivity.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[oneproductivity@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[oneproductivity@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[oneproductivity@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[oneproductivity@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastinating? Your $500 discount goes away today…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you procrastinating at this Elite Performer Retirement Celebration?]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/procrastinating-your-500-discount</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/procrastinating-your-500-discount</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:32:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you procrastinating at this Elite Performer Retirement Celebration?</p><p>Then read this short email till the end.</p><p>The past 10 months were a serious skill-sharpening time for the Elite Performers.</p><p>We recorded 12 in-depth workshops on various topics:</p><ul><li><p>Email management</p></li><li><p>Minimalistic productivity</p></li><li><p>Project management</p></li><li><p>And that&#8217;s just a snippet&#8230;</p></li></ul><p>And a gang of people have stormed my inbox asking to buy them&#8230;</p><p>Yet, what did I tell them? <em>Nope!</em></p><p>You had to buy it at the time of sale.&nbsp;</p><p>You miss a deadline, you miss a deadline.</p><p>However, since we&#8217;re celebrating retirement, for the first time ever&#8230;&nbsp;</p><p>I&#8217;ve unlocked the entire vault so you can reach in and grab whatever you want&#8230;</p><p><em>&#8230;and you can access it at quite a discount.</em></p><p>You can claim $500 in free workshops inside one big, brilliant bundle.</p><p>Or you can simply add any single workshop(s) to your cart.</p><p>(Of course, you&#8217;ll get all templates, bonuses, etc.)</p><p><em><strong>In about 5 hours this vault will be locked back up for good.</strong></em></p><p>My advice? Stop procrastinating.&nbsp;</p><p>Upgrade your productivity, performance, and business to the next level.</p><p><em>&#8230;and do it now.</em></p><p>Procrastination is a thief of your time and success.</p><p>Time to put it in the grave&#8230;</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Procrastinating? Your $500 discount goes away in 5 hours</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you on this list?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last day for your special access to the Elite Performer Vault&#8230;]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/are-you-on-this-list</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/are-you-on-this-list</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:24:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>These entrepreneurs and professionals deserve the spotlight today&#8230;</strong></p><p>I launched the Elite Performers Retirement Celebration&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;and your big, brilliant bundle of all 12 workshops is hot and ready.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Your Special Access to the Elite Performer Vault</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>An ambitious gang of entrepreneurs and professionals stormed in and grabbed their bundle.</p><p>So I want to showcase the last 5 people who invested in the Elite Performer Celebration.</p><p>Will your name be on the list today?</p><p><strong>Mia Evans</strong></p><p><strong>John Sullivan</strong></p><p><strong>Mark Philipps</strong></p><p><strong>Anne Strong</strong></p><p><strong>Elizabeth Donovan</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll each receive an email personally from me including everything you purchased (including bonuses, templates, etc).</p><p>Today is the LAST day this will be available:</p><p>Here&#8217;s your private access page to get your bundle now:</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Your Special Access to the Elite Performer Vault</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p><strong>P.S. &#8212; </strong>My marathon is fast approaching&#8230;</p><p>I&#8217;m ready. And I&#8217;m beyond grateful for this freedom.</p><p>Do you want a freedom business?</p><p>That&#8217;s great.</p><p><em>Here&#8217;s a tip:</em></p><p>You need to make sure your business supports your lifestyle <em>first</em>.</p><p>I don&#8217;t care how much money a business is printing&#8230; If it comes at the expense of my freedom or happiness&#8230; It's not a business, it's a prison.</p><p>You must design your business around your freedom.</p><p>Do that, and your life will be flooded with freedom&#8230;</p><p>And cash&#8230;</p><p>And impact&#8230;</p><p>Alright, I&#8217;ve got some training to do.</p><p>Talk later.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your questions answered…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the last day of the Elite Performers Retirement sale.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/your-questions-answered-a0c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/your-questions-answered-a0c</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:55:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tomorrow is the last day of the Elite Performers Retirement sale.</p><p>After this&#8230;the vault will be locked up again, probably for a very long time (if not for good).</p><p>So, I want to wrap this sale up by answering some questions I&#8217;ve been asked recently.</p><p>Cool? Let&#8217;s get into it&#8230;</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>Why are you doing this sale?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Instead of celebrating with a fancy steak dinner or anything like that, I wanted to celebrate with YOU.</p><p>The Elite Performer Retirement is a big milestone for me.</p><p>Over the last 10 months, the Elite Performers and I dug deep and pulled out a version of ourselves we&#8217;ve never met before.</p><p>I&#8217;m super proud of the work we&#8217;ve done.</p><p>Plus, these workshops are beyond valuable.</p><p>I know I constantly fall back on these systems, frameworks, and habits when the hard times come knocking&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Because, frankly, they just work time and time again.</p><p>And the last thing I want to happen is for these assets to go to waste while we&#8217;re evolving into a new group.</p><p>So&#8230;I&#8217;m giving you a limited-time chance to pull back the curtain and see what we&#8217;ve been working on.</p><p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m doing this.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Want to celebrate with me?</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>What&#8217;s the Elite Performers Pass?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>This &#8220;pass&#8221; is your key to unlock ALL of the workshops I&#8217;ve hosted for Elite Performers this year &#8212; 12 in total.</p><p>Plus&#8230;you&#8217;ll get all the plug and play templates, valuable bonuses, etc, etc.</p><p>The best part is you&#8217;re getting everything at a 25% discount.</p><p>So it&#8217;s a heck of a deal.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Claim your Elite Performer Pass now</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>Can I buy any individual workshops, too?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Yes.</p><p>If you aren&#8217;t interested in getting all of the workshops, that&#8217;s fine.</p><p>I&#8217;ve got good news&#8230;</p><p>You can buy any single workshop you want <em>AND</em> still get the templates + bonuses that come with that specific workshop.</p><p>Make sense?</p><p>Moreover, if you&#8217;ve got your eye on a couple (or even a handful) of workshops, you can grab those too.</p><p>Simply add them to your cart, and you&#8217;ll be emailed the links.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Want to claim your workshop(s) now?</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>Will you ever sell these again?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Look, I&#8217;ll be honest&#8230;</p><p>I have ZERO plans of bringing this back anytime soon&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; And, on the off-chance that I do bring it back, you&#8217;d find it at a significantly higher price.</p><p>My recommendation?</p><p>If you&#8217;re thinking about it, pull the trigger and get your hands on it now.</p><p>The sale ends tomorrow&#8230;but don&#8217;t procrastinate on this, grab it while you have time.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Tick&#8230; Tock&#8230; Grab it while it&#8217;s hot</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>Is there a guarantee?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Of course.</p><p>Just like all my past workshop sales, you&#8217;re protected by my full-money-back guarantee&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Fair warning: I&#8217;ve NEVER had a refund on my workshops (and only 2 ever in my decade-long career).</p><p>If, for whatever reason, you feel you didn&#8217;t get any value out of the workshop(s)&#8230; plug and play templates&#8230; OR the bonuses&#8230; I&#8217;ll be more than happy to refund your money fully.</p><p>However, the chances of that happening are slim to none.</p><p>If they do, simply email me and we&#8217;ll get it sorted out for you.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Invest in the Elite Performer Pass 100% risk-free!</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>How do you get access to it?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>It&#8217;s super simple.</p><p>Whenever you buy, I&#8217;ll send you an immediate email including the links to everything &#8212; video, templates, bonuses, etc.</p><p>From there, you should put the email somewhere you&#8217;ll always be able to find it.</p><p>Then you will enjoy the value inside, and watch your business and workflows transform.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Claim access now</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p><strong>Q: </strong>How long will you have access to these workshops?</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Lifetime.</p><p>That&#8217;s right, once you invest in these, you have them for life.</p><p>Just as long as you don&#8217;t lose the link.</p><p>&#8230; But even if that happens, email me and I&#8217;ll help you.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Get lifetime access to ALL workshops now</a></strong></p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;</p><p>Okay, that wraps up this FAQ email.</p><p>Hopefully, you found that to be super valuable.</p><p>And of course, if you have any other questions that didn&#8217;t get answered, please email me.</p><p>I&#8217;ll get back to you before the sale ends.</p><p>Cool? Great.</p><p>My next marathon is fast approaching. I&#8217;m super pumped for it, and I think this will be my best one yet.</p><p>&#8230; But it&#8217;s been <em>hard</em> work. Hours of my time and energy poured into this.</p><p>That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about, though. Working hard&#8230;so you have the privilege to choose your <em>hard</em> and love your <em>hard</em>.</p><p>Alright, talk soon.</p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>P.S. &#8212; Do you have any other questions? Feel free to email me and I&#8217;ll get back to you before the sale ends.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your “invisible script” might be holding you back…]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all seem to have an excuse.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/your-invisible-script-might-be-holding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/your-invisible-script-might-be-holding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:44:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all seem to have an excuse.</p><p>I&#8217;m not talking about legitimate excuses like not being able to drive to work because your car broke down&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; And I&#8217;m not talking about the little day to day excuses like &#8220;I can&#8217;t clean my room today, I&#8217;m too tired.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;m talking about a different type of excuse.</p><p><strong>The one or two big excuses that hold you back.</strong></p><p>The stuff your mind tells you every day unconsciously that holds you back from being where you truly want to be.</p><p>The &#8220;invisible script&#8221; running in your head&#8230; day in and day out.</p><p>&#8230; And you probably don&#8217;t even realize this script is sabotaging you at every turn.</p><p>Some common ones are:</p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have enough money&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have enough time&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m not good-looking enough. Strong enough. Tall enough. Fast enough. Smart enough&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have what it takes to do what HE or SHE did&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have enough resources&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s just not who I am&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m lazy. I&#8217;m messy. I&#8217;m too overwhelmed&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p>These are the types of excuses that keep you frozen in your tracks.</p><p><strong>Then, there are 2 other types of excuses&#8230;</strong></p><ul><li><p>The justifying excuse.</p></li><li><p>The comforting excuse.</p></li></ul><p>Here&#8217;s the reality of our &#8220;invisible scripts&#8221;&#8230;</p><p>Every excuse we make has either a &#8220;justifying phrase&#8221; or a &#8220;comfort phrase&#8221; behind it.</p><p>The justifying phrases go like this&#8230;</p><p><em>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you have enough money?&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>Well, I don&#8217;t have a four year degree&#8230; My parents were poor&#8230; I didn&#8217;t have opportunities because of the city I&#8217;m from.&#8221;</em></p><p>The comfort phrases go like this&#8230;</p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t NEED more money. I&#8217;m content with where I am&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t NEED more love in my relationships. Things are good enough&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t NEED to be healthier. I&#8217;m healthier than most of my friends&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p>Now, yes. There are times when you truly do have enough of something.&nbsp;</p><p>You <em>can</em> be fully content with what you have.</p><p>&#8230; But you need to be able to differentiate when it&#8217;s the truth &#8212; and when it&#8217;s just a way to stay in your comfort zone.</p><p>These phrases aren&#8217;t true.</p><p>When you believe them, you hold yourself back from your full potential.&nbsp;</p><p>You&#8217;re stealing your gift away from the world, and those who can benefit from your gift.</p><p>YOU decide what your life is like.</p><p>YOU are exactly where you are because that&#8217;s exactly where you&#8217;re supposed to be.</p><p>Your life is shaped by your decisions.</p><p>So it&#8217;s up to YOU to make the decisions and take the actions necessary to get where you want to go.</p><p>You can&#8217;t take action without making a decision.</p><p>So decide where you want to be. Then act relentlessly until you get there.&nbsp;</p><p>Decide you&#8217;re not going to succumb to the defeating beliefs.</p><p>Decide you&#8217;re not going to listen to lies your brain is telling you anymore.</p><p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not picking on you here&#8230;</p><p>Maybe you&#8217;ve figured it out and don&#8217;t make excuses&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; But if you&#8217;re not like most humans, then you probably do make some excuses that you could let go of.</p><p>I just don&#8217;t want them to hold you back from what you want. Or from giving your gift to the world.</p><p>The world needs it. We need it. We need you.</p><p>So&#8230;if you&#8217;re ready to decide and take action to better your life, a great place to start might be implementing a new system&#8230;</p><p>Or a new habit&#8230;</p><p>Or a new routine&#8230;</p><p>And right now, I&#8217;ve got a ton of those available for the first time ever.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Check them out here</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do NOT watch this documentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a conspiracy theorist guy, but&#8230;]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/do-not-watch-this-documentary</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/do-not-watch-this-documentary</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:54:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friend recently told me about this gut-wrenching documentary.</p><p>He said he almost wished he hadn&#8217;t watched it.</p><p>He was angry. Like genuinely upset.</p><p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;<em>Pet Fooled</em>.&#8221;</p><p>The level of manipulation and corruption within the dog food industry completely blew him away.</p><p>Now, I&#8217;m not a conspiracy theorist guy.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not an &#8220;I hate all corporations&#8221; guy.</p><p>&#8230; But this? This is different &#8212; it&#8217;s not a conspiracy at all&#8230;</p><p>I haven&#8217;t seen the documentary. However, based on what he was telling me it&#8217;s pretty messed up.</p><p><strong>Now, there&#8217;s a point to this story&#8230;</strong></p><p><em>Sometimes what you trust &#8212; what you&#8217;ve been relying on &#8212; is actually the thing holding you back.</em></p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s dark. But it&#8217;s true.</p><p>&#8230; And the same goes for productivity and business.</p><p>I&#8217;ll explain:</p><p>For years, you&#8217;ve probably trusted your systems and routines, right?</p><p>Well, if you trust your systems and habits for the pure reason that <em>you&#8217;ve always done them that way</em>&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Without questioning or challenging them?</p><p>I&#8217;m sorry to say&#8230;but the reality is&#8230;your systems are probably holding you back in some way.&nbsp;</p><p>Or, at the very least, not as cutting-edge as they could be.</p><p>How can that be? Well&#8230;things change.</p><p>Markets change. Businesses change. <em>You</em> change.</p><p>If your systems, habits, and routines aren&#8217;t changing with them&#8230;you&#8217;ll be left in the dust.</p><p>The way I do things today is completely different than how I did them 2, 3, or 4 years ago.</p><p>And today they&#8217;re better than ever.</p><p>They&#8217;ve evolved.</p><p><strong>At the end of the day, I fall back on what&#8217;s useful </strong><em><strong>and</strong></em><strong> effective.</strong></p><p>The best way to find that is by questioning and challenging what you do.</p><p>Make sense?</p><p>Now, I understand that&#8217;s an uncomfortable thing to face &#8212; <em>change</em> &#8212; and it&#8217;s certainly not for everyone&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; But if you&#8217;re up for the challenge, and willing to welcome with warm arms&#8230;</p><p>A life of freedom, productivity, and profits&#8230;</p><p>Today, challenge your systems.</p><p>Question why you do the things you do.</p><p>Dig into it.</p><p>Be ruthless with finding the answers.</p><p>They&#8217;ve come. You just need to go deep enough.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Here&#8217;s a good place to start</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unforgiving trap of “I’ll get to it later”]]></title><description><![CDATA[It starts with one small task.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/the-unforgiving-trap-of-ill-get-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/the-unforgiving-trap-of-ill-get-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:45:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It starts with one small task.</p><p>You think, <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll get to it later.&#8221;</em></p><p>Then another one pops up.</p><p>Then another.</p><p>&#8230; And before you know it?&nbsp;</p><p>Your to-do list is mountain-high &#8212; and you&#8217;re buried underneath it.</p><p>At first, it&#8217;s not so bad.</p><p>You miss a couple of deadlines, but nothing serious&#8230;yet.</p><p>&#8230; Then something important slips through the cracks.</p><p>A client project that you promised to review&#8230;</p><p>A meeting you completely forgot about&#8230;</p><p>An urgent email sitting unopened in your inbox for days&#8230;</p><p>By the time you realize it, the damage is done.</p><p>You&#8217;re frantically playing catch-up, rushing from one fire to the next.</p><p>You start missing deadlines.&nbsp;</p><p>You spend your days exhausted, but somehow, nothing important gets done.</p><p>It&#8217;s overwhelming.</p><p>Yet, it doesn&#8217;t stop there&#8230;</p><p>That one small task you pushed off snowballs into a series of missed opportunities, forgotten priorities, and sleepless nights.</p><p>Your to-do list feels like a haunted maze &#8212; no matter how much you check off, it seems to grow larger, more chaotic, and impossible to manage.</p><p>Listen, you&#8217;re not alone.</p><p>I&#8217;ve certainly been there.</p><p>Thousands of people are there right now.</p><p>&#8230; But it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.</p><p>You can have a minimalistic productivity system so dialed in that nothing &#8212; not even the smallest task &#8212; slips through the cracks.</p><p>No more missed deadlines.</p><p>No more rushing from one thing to the next.</p><p>No more drowning in overwhelm.</p><p>I&#8217;ve designed this exact system for myself.</p><p>This year I taught it to my Elite Performers, and it&#8217;s been sitting inside the vault for months now&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; And for the first time ever, it&#8217;s available again.</p><p>You&#8217;ll learn everything you need to build a minimalistic productivity system that works for you.</p><p>Plus, you&#8217;ll do it without wasting hours each day on complicated setups or apps.</p><p>Ultimately, once you let something fall through the cracks, it doesn&#8217;t just disappear, it lurks&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Waiting for the moment you least expect, to strike when you&#8217;re already spread too thin.</p><p>However, with the right system, that horror story never comes to fruition.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Grab the minimalist productivity system here</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>P.S. &#8212; You also have the option to get ALL 12 workshops I&#8217;ve created in the past 10 months for a fraction of the price.&nbsp;</p><p>(Plus &#8212; plug-and-play templates and tons of bonuses.)</p><p>Hundreds of people are using these systems and frameworks.</p><p>Fair warning: If you&#8217;re not willing to challenge your current system, this probably isn&#8217;t the right fit for you.</p><p>It&#8217;s going away soon, so act fast.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst productivity system ever created]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wise words from Albert Einstein]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/the-worst-productivity-system-ever</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/the-worst-productivity-system-ever</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:11:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Albert Einstein famously said:</p><p><em>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t explain it simply, you don&#8217;t understand it well enough.&#8221;</em></p><p>I&#8217;d add to that and say:</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t execute it simply, you don&#8217;t understand it well enough.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>What do I mean?</p><p>Well, lots of business leaders and entrepreneurs like to build big, complex teams and systems.</p><p>They live in a self-created storm of complexity, and everyone suffers because of it.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Believe it or not, I used to be one of those guys.&nbsp;</em></p><p>A few years ago, I felt like I had the <em>secret</em> to productivity.</p><p>I spent countless hours researching and building what I thought was the best productivity system in the world.</p><p>The only problem?</p><p><strong>I spent more time working on my system&#8230;than, you know, actually&#8230;working.</strong></p><p>In my pursuit of building the best productivity system, I found myself doing the exact opposite of what a world-class productivity system does.</p><p>So, I took some time to reflect, and I realized something&#8230;</p><p>A great productivity system helps you:</p><ul><li><p>Prioritizes what&#8217;s important.</p></li><li><p>Finds time for deep work.</p></li><li><p>Stays on top of things so nothing falls through the cracks.</p></li></ul><p>And a great system runs like this:</p><ul><li><p>Quick setup time &#8212; up and running in a few minutes.</p></li><li><p>Highly flexible &#8212; that&#8217;s the nature of your work.</p></li><li><p>Easy to maintain &#8212; it&#8217;s the support system, not the main act.</p></li></ul><p>I got back to work.</p><p>When it was all said and done, the Minimalist Productivity System resulted from hundreds of iterations&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Boiled down to the absolute minimum number of things required.&nbsp;</p><p>It runs on 3 apps only.</p><p>Listen, the fact that you&#8217;re reading my emails says one thing:&nbsp;</p><p>You&#8217;re ahead of the curve when it comes to productivity and performance.</p><p>That&#8217;s your strength, however, at a moment&#8217;s notice it will turn into your weakness&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; That is, if you fall down the &#8220;complexity rabbit hole.&#8221;</p><p>Take it from someone who&#8217;s been there, done that&#8230;</p><p><strong>Minimalism &gt; Complexity</strong></p><p>This is the way.</p><p>Simple is hard, but simple is better.</p><p>Simple takes years and years of boiling down complexity to its bare bones.</p><p>Not everyone makes it to the end of the road like I have.</p><p>Albert Einstein probably knew that better than anyone.</p><p>And that&#8217;s one reason why I&#8217;m so proud of my <em>Minimalist Productivity System.</em></p><p>Normally&#8230;this system is locked up inside the Elite Performer Vault.&nbsp;</p><p>However, since we&#8217;re celebrating retirement you can get your hands on it right now &#8212; for a limited time.</p><p>Soon, this Vault will be locked and closed for a long, long time &#8212; if not, forever.</p><p>So go get your ambitious hands on it now.</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Get the </a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">Minimalist Productivity System</a></strong></em></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[hey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey, are you still interested in purchasing any (or all) of my past workshops from 2024?]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/hey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/hey</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:55:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, are you still interested in purchasing <a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">any (or all) of my past workshops from 2024?</a></p><p>-Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were lied to…]]></title><description><![CDATA[This &#8220;yearly fallacy&#8221; is why life rags you around]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/you-were-lied-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/you-were-lied-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:24:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quick, personal question&#8230;</p><p><strong>How many yearly goals have seemingly slipped through your fingers?</strong></p><p>Too many to count? If so, I need you to know something&#8230;</p><p>You&#8217;re far from alone. And I&#8217;ve certainly been there before.&nbsp;</p><p>This dance isn&#8217;t alien to me. It goes something like this:</p><p>You set a big, ambitious yearly goal. You&#8217;re excited to land some big successes under your belt. Yet, when the time comes?</p><p>&#8230; You find yourself with no victory, only sorrow-filled defeat.&nbsp;</p><p>(Followed by a not-so-fun puddle of guilt and regret.)</p><p>If you&#8217;re in an unnerving place where big goals keep getting lost in the fog, I urge you to listen closely&#8230;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s not your fault&#8230;</strong></p><p><strong>Your problem is NOT the goals&#8230;or your level of ambition.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Your real issue is the </strong><em><strong>timeframe</strong></em><strong> you plan to achieve them.</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ll explain:</p><p>This is the &#8220;yearly planning fallacy.&#8221;</p><p>Since we&#8217;ve been kids, we&#8217;ve been told to set yearly goals.</p><p>January 1st rolls around&#8230;and we get ambitious.</p><p>&#8230; But that momentary ambition never turns to fruition.</p><p>It&#8217;s a lie.</p><p>Why? That dreamy goal you have in your head almost always gets lost in the ether when life inevitably rags you around.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the good news&#8230;</p><p>If you stop pulling on the &#8220;yearly goal &#8216;lever&#8221; and start pulling this different one&#8230; you&#8217;ll soon be achieving all of your goals.&nbsp;</p><p>Even more:</p><p>You can put yourself in a position where you will get more done in 90 days than most do in 2 years.</p><p>How so?</p><p>Over the past 10 years, I&#8217;ve published bestselling books, scored strong success in my consulting company, and coached hundreds of professionals and entrepreneurs&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Not because I&#8217;ve set yearly goals, but because of the systems I use.</p><p>It&#8217;s directly responsible for every deadline I&#8217;ve met and every goal I&#8217;ve hit.</p><p>What&#8217;s this system? It&#8217;s simple 90 day planning&#8230;</p><p>Where you achieve BIG goals in 90 day bursts.</p><p>Each 90 day sprint is made up of just 4 powerful components.</p><p>This tried-and-tested system keeps you in absolute control of your life &#8212; and keeps you firmly on track for the next 90 days.&nbsp;</p><p>It&#8217;s great and hundreds of people are using it right now.</p><p>Normally this isn&#8217;t available for public purchase, however, right now you can get your hands on it&#8230;</p><p>How? Inside the new <strong>Elite Performers Celebration sale.</strong></p><p>Which is, unfortunately, going away soon&#8230;</p><p>Let&#8217;s be honest:&nbsp;</p><p>Accomplishing yearly goals is the equivalent of crawling across broken glass&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; But 90 day sprints are powerful and productive.</p><p>When you&#8217;re a trailblazer toward 90 days goals &#8212; and NOT yearly goals &#8212; you get 4x more accomplished and more milestones.</p><p>Who doesn&#8217;t want 4x more profits for their company?</p><p>What doesn&#8217;t want 4x more freedom in their life?</p><p>Who doesn&#8217;t want 4x more impact on their customers and clients?</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Leave the &#8220;yearly planning fallacy&#8221; behind for good</a></strong></p><p></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p><strong>P.S. &#8212; Here are some more valuable things you&#8217;ll learn in this workshop:&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li><p>Most people (and companies) successfully accomplish yearly goals, right? <em>Wrong!</em> They&#8217;re doomed to fail. Instead, here&#8217;s how to set a clear &#8220;North Star&#8221; so your goals will be adaptable <em>and</em> results-driven.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Caution: Without a scoreboard, it&#8217;s easy to get distracted by day to day work and lose sight of your goals &#8212; here&#8217;s how to build on what keeps you on track. (Hint: plug and play template included.)</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>PLUS &#8212; how to use the &#8220;I.C.E. Framework&#8221; to prioritize your biggest opportunities and ensure you&#8217;re always working on high-impact tasks (before you commit).&nbsp;</p></li></ul><p><strong>P.P.S. &#8212;</strong> You have the option to invest in one big, brilliant bundle and get ALL of the workshops I&#8217;ve put together in 2024&#8230; for 25% off.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steal a few minutes here, steal a few minutes there]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday I woke up with a mission.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/steal-a-few-minutes-here-steal-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/steal-a-few-minutes-here-steal-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:51:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Wednesday I woke up with a mission.</p><p>Rolled out of bed.</p><p>Jumped into my chair.</p><p><em>And, prepared to <strong>replace myself.</strong></em></p><p>Let me explain&#8230;</p><p>Sometimes, my workflows get interrupted when I&#8217;m deep in flow.</p><p><strong>It drives me nuts.</strong></p><p>You probably know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;</p><p>That one small task you do manually.</p><p>It steals a few minutes here, steals a few minutes there.</p><p>It adds up.</p><p>Whenever I&#8217;m deep in flow, and something breaks my focus, I want to rip my hair out.</p><p>So&#8230;I spent Wednesday morning automating tasks.</p><p>In other words, replacing myself.</p><p>That way I can swiftly move through my deep work.&nbsp;</p><p>With my flow never being broken.</p><p>Just how I like it.</p><p>How it&#8217;s supposed to be.</p><p>It took me 1-2 hours &#8212; but it&#8217;ll save me dozens of hours in the future.</p><p>The truth is&#8230;</p><p>This is a normal Wednesday for me.</p><p>I&#8217;m always &#8220;replacing myself.&#8221;</p><p>I spend 1 day per week working to make the other 4 easier.</p><p>&#8220;Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.&#8221; <em>&#8212;Abraham Lincoln</em></p><p>20% to optimize 80%</p><p>Give it a shot.</p><p>It adds up.</p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>P.S. &#8212; <em>Want to collect $500 worth of free workshops today?</em></p><p><em>Good.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>Come celebrate the Elite Performer&#8217;s Retirement and grab one big, brilliant bundle with everything from the last 10 months.</em></p><p><em>Hundreds of people are using these systems and frameworks.</em></p><p><em>Listen&#8230; they aren&#8217;t perfect, but man, they work.</em></p><p><em>This sale is going away soon.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>This is my first, and likely, the last time I&#8217;ll ever do this.</em></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Collect $500 in free workshops</a></strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uh, oh… this can’t be good…]]></title><description><![CDATA[A human sneeze can travel at over 100 miles per hour.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/uh-oh-this-cant-be-good</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/uh-oh-this-cant-be-good</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:15:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A human sneeze can travel at over 100 miles per hour.</p><p>How&#8217;s that relevant?</p><p>Well, apart from the fact that it&#8217;s super interesting&#8230;</p><p>Just like a sneeze, time is flying by &#8212; and the Elite Performers Vault is about to get a major price increase.</p><p>I had a gut feeling I underpriced it&#8230;and what do you know&#8230;my gut was right.</p><p>The value inside this Vault is groundbreaking.</p><p><strong>So&#8230; I&#8217;m raising the prices starting tomorrow.</strong></p><p>You have until midnight tonight (EST).</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been debating, procrastinating, or simply stuck on the fence&#8230;</p><p>It&#8217;s time to take action and get your ambitious hands on this big, brilliant bundle now&#8230;</p><p>Right now is the cheapest it will ever be for you&#8230;</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Go here before the price increases</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swipe this system…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds are now using this to achieve Inbox Zero (24/7/365)&#8230;]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/swipe-this-system</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/swipe-this-system</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:13:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s a new day, with a new opportunity&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; And you have a chance to &#8220;swipe&#8221; my secret to engineer your email for (repeatable) success.</p><p>However before we jump into that, I want to pay my respects where they&#8217;re due.</p><p>I commend you for showing up today.</p><p>You rolled out of bed, set your ego aside, and actively sought out new, better ways of doing things by reading my emails.</p><p>I&#8217;m impressed. And you should be proud.</p><p>I want you to know that.</p><p>Anyways&#8230;</p><p>Last week I spent roughly 45 minutes on email.</p><p>That&#8217;s a pretty normal week for me, too.</p><p>In fact, not too long ago, just for fun&#8230;</p><p>I let my inbox overflow to 500+ emails. Then, I processed it to zero in a matter of about 20 minutes.&nbsp;</p><p>The whole thing was recorded live, and frankly, it was a ton of fun.</p><p>There&#8217;s something I want to point out here though &#8212; this is quite important, too:</p><p>If you ever stole a sneaky peek inside the average-joe entrepreneur or professional email inbox&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;You&#8217;d find a jungle overgrown with unread messages, where important emails are lost in the thicket.</p><p>They are being swallowed whole by the overgrown inbox.</p><p>And, in some cases, email has literally become their job.</p><p>That&#8217;s a huge problem.</p><p>Knee-deep in anxiety, frustration, and overwhelm&#8230;all from the notorious culprit &#8212; email.</p><p>While important, needle-moving work goes untouched.</p><p>*barf*</p><p><em>So&#8230;what&#8217;s my secret?</em></p><p>I&#8217;d offer it being a simple, proven system that I fall back on each and every day.</p><p>Now, I should put it on the record that it wasn&#8217;t always this way&#8230;</p><p>Email used to control my life &#8212; and embarrassingly, called all the shots.</p><p>It wasn&#8217;t until I studied a few high-level colleagues (who were masters with email) that things changed for me.</p><p>First, I learned their principles, patterns, and practices.</p><p>Then, I applied it to my own life.</p><p>This is a system I&#8217;ve honed for years and taught to hundreds of my private clients.</p><p>It works.&nbsp;</p><p>It engineers your email for repeatable success.</p><p>Moveover: It only takes a mere 20 minutes to set up &#8212; which you only do once.</p><p>As long as you have the discipline to apply 5 steps and 7 rules, you too, will experience for yourself what life on Inbox Zero is like.</p><p>How?</p><p>By &#8220;swiping&#8221; my exact system.</p><p>You&#8217;ll get a step by step system on how to use my system to get Inbox Zero each and every day.</p><p>Plus, you&#8217;ll get the recording of me taking my 500+ overflowing inbox to zero in 20 minutes&#8230; so you can see this system live, in action.</p><p>You normally wouldn&#8217;t be able to access this system&#8230;</p><p>However, with the Elite Performers Retirement Celebration going on&#8230;</p><p>You can invest in any workshop from the past 10 months&#8230;</p><p>You can grab them all in one big, brilliant bundle (at 50% off).</p><p>Or you can just grab some individual workshops.</p><p>Either way&#8230;</p><p>I think it&#8217;s time for you to make the transition&#8230;</p><p><strong>The transition from living in your inbox to living your life.</strong></p><p>Just like the hundreds of people who are now using this system to achieve Inbox Zero (24/7/365)&#8230;</p><p><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Want to see my secret to Inbox Zero? Click to see&#8230;</a></strong></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p><em>P.S. I think I messed up big time&#8230;</em></p><p><em>I &#8220;low-balled&#8221; the prices for this celebration&#8230;</em></p><p><em>And people are taking full advantage.</em></p><p><em>Which is awesome, but frankly, I think it&#8217;s too &#8220;cheap.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>So, heads up&#8230;&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>Soon, I will raise the price.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you spend your 1,000 minutes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think of time as an inventory.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/how-do-you-spend-your-1000-minutes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/how-do-you-spend-your-1000-minutes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:31:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it helpful to think of time as an inventory:</p><p>Your day is divided into <em>Sleep Time</em> and <em>Awake Time.</em></p><p>We all have about 16 waking hours or roughly 1,000 minutes to work with each day.</p><p>So we can divide <em>Awake Time </em>into 3 buckets &#8212; what I call the &#8220;WPP Framework&#8221;:</p><p>1) <strong>W</strong>ork: Job, school, family requirements, chores</p><p>2) <strong>P</strong>assion: personal projects, side gigs, hobbies</p><p>3) <strong>P</strong>lay: unstructured, guilt-free play time</p><p></p><p>If we work first and play later, we can stay on top of our responsibilities.</p><p>&#8230; And we don&#8217;t have to get stuck in a crunch staying up all night, procrastinating, engaging in avoidance behavior, and having to deal with last-minute panic.</p><p>This is a &#8220;molehill&#8221; approach as opposed to a &#8220;mountain&#8221; approach: Stay on top of things every day, the first chance you get, before goofing off.</p><p>&#8230; But our brain is also like a sponge.</p><p>So&#8230; at some point, it gets saturated and needs time to decompress or &#8220;evaporate.&#8221; Whether that&#8217;s evening after work or weekends when we have more free time.</p><p>Otherwise, we become subject to burnout and chronic stress.</p><p>On the other side&#8230;</p><p>If all we do is work and play, that leaves out the opportunity to grow ourselves as human beings. And to engage in good experiences outside of our required work (including education) and goofing off.</p><p>Looking at time as an inventory and then breaking that up into 3 individual &#8220;buckets&#8221; &#8212; <em>work, passion, play &#8212; </em>allows us to take our volumes of responsibility, pull out specific tasks to do&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; And sequence those into our days so that we can knock out our responsibilities first.</p><p>Then, we &#8220;pay ourselves first&#8221; before goofing off with personal passion activities.</p><p>And finally, enjoy some 100% guilt-free downtime, knowing that we accomplished what we set out to do.</p><p></p><p>So, recap:</p><p>1) Work first</p><p>2) Pay yourself before goofing off</p><p>3) Then enjoy guilt-free downtime</p><p>This approach creates balance.</p><p>Work all day = workaholic.</p><p>Goof off before work = time tends to slip away.</p><p>Goof off all day = couch potato.</p><p>Only do work and play = no personal growth &amp; development.</p><p>This balance ensures your 1,000 minutes are well spent.</p><p></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>P.S. &#8212; Over the past 10 months, I&#8217;ve created 12 workshops on business and productivity&#8230;</p><p>Hundreds of people are using these exact systems and frameworks right now&#8230;</p><p>And they&#8217;ve been locked inside the Elite Performer Vault all year&#8230;</p><p>However, for the first time ever, every single one of them is up for grabs.</p><p>Each individual workshop might not be the &#8220;Silver Bullet&#8221; to turn a disaster into a triumph&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; But when you combine all of them together, you&#8217;ll have exactly what you need.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Click here to check it out</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do less, not more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texting and driving is a recipe for disaster.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/do-less-not-more</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/do-less-not-more</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:01:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Texting and driving is a recipe for disaster.</p><p>&#8230; Or at the very least, doing so hinders our ability to drive.</p><p>We both know this. The statistics know this.</p><p>Yet, there has certainly been a time or two when I&#8217;ve sent a quick text to my girlfriend behind the wheel.</p><p>And I&#8217;m willing to bet you can relate&#8230;</p><p>But I&#8217;m not here to lecture you on your driving responsibility&#8230;</p><p>Nonetheless, there&#8217;s a reason I bring up texting and driving&#8230;</p><p><strong>Doing more things does not drive faster or better results.</strong></p><p>When you text <em>and</em> drive&#8230;you don&#8217;t drive better. You drive worse.</p><p><strong>Doing things better drives better results.</strong></p><p>Even more:</p><p><strong>Doing one thing as best as you can drives better results.</strong></p><p>See, we&#8217;re capable of doing two things at the same time &#8212; like texting and driving.</p><p>However, it&#8217;s impossible to concentrate on two tasks at once. You can only do one thing at a time.</p><p>What&#8217;s my point?</p><p>I promise this email isn&#8217;t a &#8220;trojan horse&#8221; lecture to get you to stop texting and driving&#8230;</p><p>Although, you should probably cut that out (just saying)&#8230;</p><p>What you should take away from this lesson is to <strong>do one thing at a time.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s it.</p><p>Just one.</p><p>Whether that be implementing <em>one</em> new system... Learning <em>one</em> new skill&#8230; Or focusing on <em>one</em> project at a time.</p><p>At the end of the day&#8230;</p><p><strong>Do less, not more.</strong></p><p>When you do, you&#8217;ll get more profits, freedom, and impact.</p><p>And right now is the perfect opportunity for you because my Elite Performers Retirement Celebration sale is live.</p><p>This is a big milestone for me, so I wanted to celebrate properly.</p><p>You can get <em>one</em> big, brilliant bundle of all 12 workshops I&#8217;ve created in the past 12 months&#8230;</p><p>&#8230; Or you can even just buy any <em>one</em> workshop (or a handful).</p><p>They all come with the original bonuses, templates, etc.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Do less, not more</a></strong></p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>P.S. &#8212; Heads up, I&#8217;m leaning toward raising the price on this bundle soon.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to increase results AND decrease inputs (simple system)]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Good things take time&#8230;but great things happen all at once.&#8221;]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/how-to-increase-results-and-decrease</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/how-to-increase-results-and-decrease</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:57:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Good things take time&#8230;but great things happen all at once.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s a quote from the movie Rat Race.</p><p>It&#8217;s a ridiculous comedy where people compete to find a bag of money.</p><p>As silly as that movie is&#8230;the quote stands true.</p><p>Good things <em>do</em> take time. You must work at them. Build them.</p><p>&#8230;but then suddenly, as if by some sudden force of nature, those good things turn into great things.</p><p>And it happens faster than you can imagine.</p><p>Seemingly &#8220;all at once.&#8221;</p><p>Let me give you an example&#8230;</p><p>Imagine yourself trying to push a boulder off a hill.</p><p>You push and strain. You&#8217;re tired.</p><p>&#8230;but keep pushing and the boulders barely seem to move at all.</p><p>You nudge it one inch. Then another inch.</p><p>Until suddenly&#8230;</p><p>It rolls down the hill at a blistering pace. Taking out the obstacles in its way.</p><p>The momentum that YOU gave it from pushing makes it a near-impossible force to stop.</p><p>Your workflows and productivity act on the same underlying principle as the boulder.</p><p>(Except without the sweating and pushing&#8230;and a lot less hard work.)</p><p>All you have to do is take small actions toward improving your workflow every day.</p><p>You may not see any changes in your productivity and performance right away.</p><p>&#8230;but you keep doing that &#8220;one small action&#8221; until BOOM. You start to get a little more done in a little less time.</p><p>Then you keep going&#8230;and BOOM again. You drove a stronger result with less effort.</p><p>See&#8230;your productivity, performance, and business&#8230;don&#8217;t and/or doesn&#8217;t always improve gradually.</p><p>You won&#8217;t see your results boost while your input declines every few days or each week.</p><p>It improves in &#8220;leaps and bounds.&#8221;</p><p>However, if you have no system (or a scrappy one) in place, and you make some adjustments&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;you can see a major change in your time/effort spent and the results you drive.</p><p>One of the quickest and easiest things you can do is get some sort of &#8220;prioritization system&#8221; in place.</p><p>In fact, I recently recorded a workshop about &#8220;Getting the Right Work Done.&#8221;</p><p>Dozens of people have watched it and applied the system to their own workflows.</p><p>Now they&#8217;ve decreased their inputs&#8230;but increased their results.</p><p>Your results may not be as big&#8230;but you&#8217;ll get some results.</p><p>Just as long as you take that one small action a day!</p><p>How do you know what action to take? Simple&#8230;</p><p>The <em>Getting the Right Work Done</em> workshop provides you with a plug and play template that spits out exactly what you should focus on&#8230;and what not to focus on.</p><p>You normally wouldn&#8217;t be able to access this workshop.</p><p>However, since the Elite Performers Retirement Celebration is going on right now&#8230;</p><p>You can grab it (with the templates and bonuses) inside one big bundle along with a dozen other valuable workshops&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;Or you can just grab it individually.</p><p>Your call.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Check it out here</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p><strong>P.S. &#8212; Here&#8217;s some other stuff you&#8217;ll learn inside the workshop:</strong></p><ul><li><p>How to focus only on your most important work by using the $10K Framework to prioritize tasks that move the needle forward.</p></li><li><p>What you MUST do every week to stay on top of your priorities: Use this short, simple routine to ensure you&#8217;re always moving forward on the right task.</p></li><li><p>Getting everything done makes you productive, right? Wrong! Focus on getting the <strong>right</strong> things done, and let the rest go.</p></li><li><p>The &#8220;LEGO Framework&#8221; &#8212; a simple way to block out your day by scheduling high-priority work into your calendar first, ensuring you always work on what matters most.</p></li><li><p>Productivity isn&#8217;t about doing more &#8212; it&#8217;s about doing the right work at the right time. This system helps you focus on what truly matters.</p></li><li><p>Do you know how to prioritize your work for maximum impact? Learn the $10K Framework to focus on high-leverage tasks that create real results.</p></li><li><p>When should you abandon a project? Use the &#8220;deathline&#8221; technique to decide whether to push through or move on when projects stall.</p></li><li><p>The truth about productivity: It&#8217;s not about getting more done, it&#8217;s about getting the right work done &#8212; and this system makes it possible.</p></li><li><p>PLUS &#8212; how using &#8220;deathlines&#8221; instead of deadlines forces you to finish or bury projects that aren&#8217;t moving the needle.</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does your productivity’s “cardiovascular system” need an upgrade?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an instant boost...]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/does-your-productivitys-cardiovascular</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/does-your-productivitys-cardiovascular</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:43:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Lvu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc853cf50-355f-41c8-a2df-b237599c784a_1238x936.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started running in early 2021.</p><p>The first time I went for a run I lasted 8 minutes (where all start somewhere).</p><p>The whole time I was thinking:</p><p><em>This is stupid. And really, who likes to run anyway? I can&#8217;t do this. I need to stop.</em></p><p>&#8230;but I kept running.</p><p>Not long after, I got a watch&#8230; some running shoes&#8230; and started logging my runs.</p><p>Then, I completed a 5K&#8230;</p><p>Soon after, I completed a 10K&#8230;</p><p>Eventually, 15K&#8230;</p><p><strong>And on September 26 2021, I completed a half-marathon in 2 hours:</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Lvu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc853cf50-355f-41c8-a2df-b237599c784a_1238x936.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Lvu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc853cf50-355f-41c8-a2df-b237599c784a_1238x936.jpeg 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p>The journey of going from my 1st run to completing a marathon in less than a year was no walk in the park (no pun intended)&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;but frankly, there was no other option.</p><p>I had to invest hours of <em>brutal </em>training.</p><p>I had to run hundreds of <em>sweaty </em>miles.</p><p>I had to hire a coach with <em>hard</em> programs.</p><p>Why did I have to do all of that?</p><p>My body needed to be conditioned for what I was about to put it through.</p><p>My entire cardiovascular system needed an upgrade.</p><p>Nobody could do that for me except for me.</p><p>Sure, I had guidance&#8230;but when it was all said and done? It was up to me and me alone.</p><p>However, the thing about business and productivity is that you don&#8217;t have to tackle it alone.</p><p>That&#8217;s one of the things I love so much about it.</p><p>You can &#8220;skip the line.&#8221;</p><p>You can get &#8220;instant upgrades.&#8221;</p><p>You can &#8220;hack the journey.&#8221;</p><p>The running process is nothing like that.</p><p>Nobody can run the miles for you.</p><p>That&#8217;s your job, and your job alone.</p><p>&#8230;but when it comes to business and productivity?</p><p>Time-tested systems will save you years of &#8220;beating the wrong drum.&#8221;</p><p>Plug and play templates will help you avoid hours of frustration.</p><p>Powerful frameworks will transform your workflow.</p><p>This is good news for you and me because we can get better results in less time.</p><p>We can upgrade our business &#8220;cardiovascular system&#8221; instantly&#8230;</p><p>We can upgrade our productivity &#8220;cardiovascular system&#8221; instantly&#8230;</p><p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m running the Elite Performers Retirement Celebration.</p><p>You can get your hands on every asset I&#8217;ve put together for the elite performers in the past 10 months&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;and collect $1,000 in free workshops, in one big bundle at 50% off today.</p><p>Or you can simply grab any individual workshop (or multiple) that you&#8217;d like.</p><p>They all come with templates, bonuses, and tools that boost your performance and profits.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been reading these emails for a while, you know I rarely (almost never) re-sell old products.</p><p>Once it&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s gone.</p><p>This is a major exception.</p><p>You don&#8217;t want to miss it.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Grab your one big, brilliant bundle now (and collect $1,000 in free workshops)</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My 3 favorite systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[3 systems have given me a bigger ROI than anything else.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/my-3-favorite-systems</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/my-3-favorite-systems</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:04:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>3 systems have given me a bigger ROI than anything else.</p><p>It&#8217;s not even close.</p><p>They&#8217;ve single-handedly had the biggest impact on my business, profits, and freedom.</p><p>Today, I want to share those 3 systems with you (not in any particular order):</p><ul><li><p><strong>Managing Multiple Projects System </strong>&#8212; I&#8217;m constantly juggling multiple projects because that brings the most success&#8230;this system allows me to do that without dropping the ball on anything (or feeling like I&#8217;m behind).</p></li><li><p><strong>Minimalist Productivity System </strong>&#8212; I get way more done in a faster, more effective timeline with this system&#8230; without losing my sanity in complexity (K.I.S.S.: Keep. It. Simple Stupid)</p></li><li><p><strong>Effective Delegation System </strong>&#8212; I hate doing things I hate&#8230;and I love doing things I love&#8230;this system allows me to do exactly that effectively and effortlessly (while expanding my impact).</p></li></ul><p>The list of systems I&#8217;ve tested throughout the past decades is longer than a CVS receipt&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;but these 3 are my favorites.</p><p>If you&#8217;d like to get your hands on these today, you&#8217;re in luck.</p><p>I&#8217;ve recently put together a &#8220;celebration bundle&#8221; for the retirement of the Elite Performer Community&#8230;</p><p>You can collect $1,000 in free workshops&#8230;</p><p>And you will instantly access 12 workshops, dozens of plug and play templates, and tons of bonuses.</p><p>&#8230;Or you can simply grab all 3 of these systems.</p><p>The choice is yours.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Grab my favorite systems here</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[One big, brilliant bundle inside for 50% off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Want to collect $1,000 in free workshops today?]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/one-big-brilliant-bundle-inside-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/one-big-brilliant-bundle-inside-for</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:47:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to collect $1,000 in free workshops today?</p><p>Here&#8217;s how:</p><p>I&#8217;ve recently retired from the Elite Performer Community (it has evolved into Freedom Founders)&#8230;</p><p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m pulling EVERYTHING out of the retired Elite Performers Vault&#8230;</p><p>Workshops, templates, bonuses, etc&#8230;</p><p>And handing it to you for 50% off today in one big bundle&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;Or you have the option to simply add any single workshop you&#8217;d like most to your cart.</p><p>Heck, throw in 2 or 4 (you&#8217;ll still get all templates and bonuses included with each workshop.</p><p>After all, we are celebrating.</p><p>I must warn you, though&#8230;</p><p>This will be your one and only opportunity of this kind to squeeze every ounce of value out of the retired Elite Performer Vault&#8230;</p><p>And frankly, I think I under-priced everything. So there&#8217;s a chance I will increase the price.</p><p>If this at all interests you, click the link below to check out all the details.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;New Elite Performer Retirement Celebration Pass</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Need a superpower? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I talk a lot about what it takes to scale your productivity, performance, and business&#8230;]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/need-a-superpower</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/need-a-superpower</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:01:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I talk a lot about what it takes to scale your productivity, performance, and business&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;but some people believe there isn&#8217;t a &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; to driving more freedom and profits.</p><p>They think everyone has different circumstances and there isn&#8217;t <em>one answer to any one problem.</em></p><p>I tend to agree&#8230;</p><p>However, I think most people overlook the power of plug and play systems can have on your workflows&#8230;</p><p>And it&#8217;s important to understand what it actually takes to &#8220;make it&#8221; in creating life freedom and accomplishments together&#8230;</p><p>I believe it boils down to 12 superpowers. These are the same ones I spent the last 10 months teaching my private clients:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Superpower #1</strong> &#8212; The Minimalist Productivity System</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #2</strong> &#8212; Email Machine</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #3</strong> &#8212; Building a Digital Brain</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #4</strong> &#8212;The Effective Delegation System</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #5</strong> &#8212; Design Your Dream Week</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #6</strong> &#8212; The Multiple Projects Management System</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #7 </strong>&#8212; Getting the Right Work Done</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #8</strong> &#8212; 90 Day Sprints</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #9</strong> &#8212; The 20 Minutes Weekly Review</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #10</strong> &#8212; The 7 Habits of Highly Productive Professionals</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #11 </strong>&#8212; Inbox Zero</p></li><li><p><strong>Superpower #12 </strong>&#8212; 7 Day Course Creator</p></li></ul><p>Understand and apply these, and things will become significantly easier for you.</p><p>That&#8217;s because when you know exactly what superpower you need to develop next&#8230; it takes all the guesswork out of things.</p><p>Rather than constantly wondering, <em>&#8220;Am I doing the right stuff?</em></p><p>So, how do you learn these 12 superpowers?</p><p>Simple&#8230;</p><p>Since I&#8217;ve recently retired the Elite Performer Community&#8230; I&#8217;m making the entire Vault of resources available to you&#8230; so you can &#8220;swipe&#8221; the skills, systems, and resources for yourself.</p><p>Plus, you can collect over $1,000 in free workshops when you buy the big bundle&#8230;</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Need a superpower?</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why you drop the ball when you have multiple projects…]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love managing multiple projects.]]></description><link>https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/why-you-drop-the-ball-when-you-have</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://oneproductivity.substack.com/p/why-you-drop-the-ball-when-you-have</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Silvestre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:37:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swkz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29c253e6-c502-4dd6-a67d-5fb01b06ed30_873x873.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love managing multiple projects.</p><p>When you do so successfully, oftentimes you&#8217;ll 10x the results of your company.</p><p>That directly correlates to more profits and impact.</p><p>&#8230;but after working with hundreds of clients, I&#8217;ve realized for most people, managing multiple projects is beyond stressful.</p><p>That&#8217;s because to do it successfully requires different skills and tools than what is required for a single project.</p><p>Defining multiple goals&#8230;</p><p>Organizing multiple projects&#8230;</p><p>Wearing multiple hats&#8230;</p><p>Prioritizing multiple tasks&#8230;</p><p>Meeting multiple deadlines&#8230;</p><p>The list goes on.</p><p>You may be able to knock a single project out of the park, every single time&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;but the second multiple projects land in your lap, you drop the ball.</p><p>That&#8217;s when project performance declines. Impact declines. And anxiety jumps.</p><p>And this is where the right framework comes in.</p><p>It will transform and streamline your workflows &#8212; making it significantly easier to manage multiple projects at once.</p><p>I&#8217;ve laid out the exact frameworks you need for this. Along with the exact plug and play templates to make things that much easier.</p><p>You will find all of that inside my <em>Multiple Projects Management System</em>.</p><p>Which I ran this year&#8230;</p><p>Normally you wouldn&#8217;t be able to buy this&#8230;</p><p>Fortunately, you have the chance to pick it up right now inside the Elite Performer Retirement Celebration Pass.</p><p>Where you will instantly access 12 workshops, dozens of plug and play templates, and tons of bonuses.</p><p>&#8230;Or you can simply grab the Multiple Projects workshop by itself.</p><p>The choice is yours.</p><p>But this won&#8217;t be around forever.</p><p><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a><strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&gt;&gt;&gt;Discover how to manage multiple projects with success here</a></strong><a href="https://go.dansilvestre.com/retirement">&#8203;</a></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p><strong>P.S. &#8212; Here&#8217;s an &#8220;appetizer&#8221; for the &#8220;full meal&#8221; that this workshop offers for multiple project management:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Why breaking down projects into &#8220;Atomic Packets&#8217; is the key to avoiding overwhelm &#8212; and how it helps you maintain momentum on every project.</p></li><li><p>What you MUST do before starting any project &#8212; use &#8220;Reserve Planning&#8221; to map out a clear, simple path to success.</p></li><li><p>What NEVER to do when managing multiple projects if you want to avoid burnout and ensure consistent progress? Find out inside&#8230;</p></li><li><p>Managing multiple projects is all about multitasking, right? Wrong! It&#8217;s actually about focusing on one project at a time with complete clarity. Here&#8217;s exactly how to do that almost effortlessly&#8230;</p></li><li><p>WARNING: Trying to focus on all your projects at once can lead to disaster &#8212; here&#8217;s how to prioritize and focus effectively to avoid dropping the ball.</p></li><li><p>BETTER than traditional project planning &#8212; &#8220;Reverse Planning&#8221; helps you start with the end goal and work backward for more efficient execution.</p></li><li><p>PLUS &#8212; a powerful progress dashboard that shows you exactly where you are with each project, helping you stay on track and meet every deadline.</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>