How to be a genius Amazon seller 75% of the time

Here’s something I’ve done for the past 3 months.

I hope it helps you operate more in your “zone of genius”.

This idea originated with Diana Chapman of the Conscious Leadership Group, but is adapted here by Matt Mochary.

Here goes nothing…

“Your goal should be to spend most of your time (75-80%) doing things that energize you.

If you do, magic will occur. Get two highlighters, pens, or pencils of different colors (red and green are ideal, but any will do). Print out the last two weeks of your calendar (from the past, not the future) when you were working, and that is representative of your everyday experience (i.e., if you did something unusual in the last two weeks like go on a big trip, then pick the two weeks prior). Add in activities you did in between meetings, before work, and after work.

Go through each workday hour-by-hour and ask yourself, “Did that activity give me energy or drain my energy?” Highlight those that gave you energy in green and red those that did not provide you with energy.

There are no neutrals; every hour must be marked one color or the other. If an hour does not give you energy, it is red. (If you want to take a shortcut, you can just mark the reds.)

When finished, write out a list of each of the reds. Then group those activities into similar buckets. (i.e., 1-1 meetings, recruiting meetings, etc.)

For each type of activity that does not raise your energy, write down ways to:

– Outsource it,

– Eliminate it, or

– Make it exquisite (i.e., meetings that you believe you must attend).

Turn each of these into actions with due dates and put them in your Task Manager. Keep doing this Energy Audit each month until you’re spending 75% or more doing things that give you energy. If you do, you will achieve far more in less time because you will perform far better. You will be in your Zone of Genius.”

Have fun with it! It’s served me well so far. I hope it does the same for you. -Pat