{"id":773,"date":"2011-09-12T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T17:58:11","slug":"bootcamp-day-4-finish-work-faster-with-the-olympian-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Bootcamp Day 4: Finish Work Faster with the Olympian Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>Today is another video guide. This time I&#8217;m going to be talking about getting more work done. I&#8217;ll be sharing the tactic that enabled me to have a social life while running a business and taking classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_1YqTQeUlu8&amp;feature=related\">Watch it here<\/a> (6 minutes). Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/learnonsteroids\/grab\/TranscriptOlympian.pdf\">download the full transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever encountered these problems?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Procrastinating, when you know you need to work?<\/li>\n<li>Trying to balance work, studies and a social life?<\/li>\n<li>Feeling burned out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today&#8217;s idea proposes to tackle all three. But it does so in a rather unconventional way. Instead of trying to make your schedule &#8220;balanced&#8221;, you deliberately create a top-heaviness in your workload.<\/p>\n<p>The core of this idea was pulled from the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2Frtn9uB&amp;session_token=YKhdvVAS3f3uOR40PXLioXvvgcp8MTMxNTkzNjY1M0AxMzE1ODUwMjUz\">The Power of Full Engagement<\/a>. The authors insight was that Olympic athletes don&#8217;t train non-stop. They alternate between work and rest. More importantly, by working the way Olympians train, you could see dramatic productivity increases.<\/p>\n<p>Top-heaviness means putting more of your work at the beginning of a day or week than at the end. More than just being proactive, it&#8217;s about having a deliberate imbalance in your schedule.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKE ACTION: Use The Olympian Method to Finish Work Faster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again&#8211;don&#8217;t just read, take action. Even if you find out later that a method isn&#8217;t for you, there&#8217;s still a lot of benefit in experimenting. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Watch the video on the Olympian Method.<\/li>\n<li>Create your weekly to-do list for the upcoming week.<\/li>\n<li>As you make your daily to-do list for each day, put more of the work on Monday, Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Make your schedule for the next week top-heavy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Today is another video guide. This time I&#8217;m going to be talking about getting more work done. I&#8217;ll be sharing the tactic that enabled me to have a social life while running a business and taking classes. Watch it here (6 minutes). Or download the full transcript. Have you ever encountered these problems? Procrastinating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}