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Productivity In 2020 — Part 5 — Mindfulness What does mindfulness have to do with productivity? On the face of it, they seem like opposing concepts, don't they? Mindfulness (for most of us) is associated with pensive reflection and not a whole lot of action.Productivity, on the other hand, smacks of frenetic activity and output.Turns out, the two are critical to each other if you want to use your time effectively.A mindfulness practice helps to cultivate a proactive mindset which means you make better (quadrant 2) decisions as we saw in the first part of this 5 part series.When you're proactive, you're more likely to focus on the 1% of your efforts that yield 51% of your results. If this sounds like complete gobbledygook to you, then check out the third video in this 5 part series. You can access it on the YouTube channel.And if you're mindful when you do your Pomodoro sprints — which is exactly what we do within the Productive Insights membership program — when we rate ourselves after each sprint in terms of our focus levels for that sprint, you get EPIC results!So here's the fifth and final video in this Productivity 2020 series. If you find the video useful, please do leave a comment below and share it with someone who might benefit. Links Mentioned: www.GetMeToDone.com www.Productiveinsights.com www.YouTube.com/ProductiveInsights https://productiveinsights.com/the-eisenhower-matrix/ Related Episodes: 187. Productivity In 2020 — Part 1 How To Grow Your Business Effectively And Fast 188. Productivity In 2020 — Part 2 Systems 189. Productivity In 2020 — Part 3 — How To Use The 80/20 Rule To Grow Your Business 190. Productivity In 2020 — Part 4 — Pomodoro Technique Ash Roy Video Transcript (This transcript has been auto-generated. Artificial Intelligence is still in the process of perfecting itself. There may be some errors in transcription): Ash Roy (00:01): Did you know that Novak Djokovic currently ranked number one in the world in tennis at the time of this recording used mindfulness to get him to world number one and to stay there more on that later in this video, But for now, I want to talk about how you can use mindfulness to take your business to the next level and grow profitably, provided you use it consistently and you combine it with the previous four techniques taught in this five-part series in productivity in 2020. By the end of this video, you'll learn how to use mindfulness to focus on the things that really matter in your business while still maintaining a healthy and comfortable lifestyle. Companies such as Google, Intel, and Goldman Sachs have embraced mindfulness wholeheartedly and are getting awesome benefits from it. Mindfulness has revolutionized Google. Every year. Google employees take a course called search inside yourself, and the waiting period for this course is six months long. Ash Roy (01:04): Inspired by Google, Intel introduced the awake at Intel program and it's delivering great results to Intel and their employees. Even Goldman Sachs has embraced mindfulness. Fancy that, huh? And investment bank embracing mindfulness. Sally Boyle, the head of human capital at Goldman Sachs said in years to come, we'll be talking about mindfulness as we talk about exercise now. So there's no question that mindfulness delivers awesome benefits and they're there for the taking for you right now. So I hope you can embrace these techniques mentioned in this five-part series, including this one on mindfulness and achieve awesome results in your business while still living a wonderful lifestyle. Now, like all the other techniques discussed in this five-part productivity in the 2020 series, mindfulness is simple but not easy, particularly when it comes to using it consistently. The thing is it's easy to do, but it's also easy not to do so. Ash Roy (02:06): It's important that you develop a consistent practice and you do it a little at a time.