Death by 1000 cuts refers to an ancient method of torture in which numerous small cuts were made on a victim's body. None of the cuts were deadly by themselves, but the combination of them would cause them to die a slow, painful death.

Origins Of The Principle

It refers to all the little things we do each day that take just a few minutes, giving you the false impression you’re not it’s actually not unproductive since they may seem like they’re important as well.You feel like those are things you have to do and don’t kill your productivity, but, in reality, they’re just as big as going to a coffee shop for some hours with your friends and absolutely destroying your true potential for the whole day.

Meaning In Terms Of Your Productivity

Your flow state is when you find yourself at the peak of your potential, best performing, when dealing with a task.Some say it takes as much as 30 minutes on focusing on a task to fully reach this state.Now imagine what happens when you’re almost there or you’ve just reached it and you interrupt it with what seems to be a harmless distraction, like taking your phone to quickly respond to a text message.You may finish a 1 hour task in 4 hours, by repeating that type of action.

Killing The Flow State

What people don’t seem to understand is that the productivity killer isn’t the actual time investment, but the mental bandwidth (business jargon - the resources needed to complete a task or a project) that compresses itself with each task. It’s not about the 30 minutes lost going to the market and buying some food (of course, it’s about time too, since that s limited also), but, most importantly, it’s about that mental bandwidth that kills its potential step by step.

Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

People look at time wrong. They measure it the wrong way: instead of measuring the focus investment behind each minute, they focus on the actual minute lenght. Try and see things like this: a minute lost = 30 minutes of recuperating. 3 hours of full concentration = a full day of sliding into small tasks while trying to accomplish the things you did in 3 hours of focus.

Wrap It All Up

Most effective exercise to do is called “100 units of time”: track where your time goes for a week straight. Every 30 minutes, write down each small thing you did and how much it took you. This way, you’ll be more aware of the actual time you’re wasting.So many people out there trying to teach you how to manage your time efficiently, when, in reality, what you want to do isn’t more, but less. The real masterful way of dealing with time is you just want to start eliminating.

Do This Exercise For One Week

Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions? This video shows you how to eliminate waste and unleash your power -- https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions? Tired of projects lying in limbo and not completing anything? Chances are, you've suffered "death by 1,000 cuts". It's the little things that waste our time and suck our energy dry. Its the "got a minute", "quick check" or "just this once" that sneak up on you and suffocate you. The worst part is that you never see it coming because it disguises itself as a tiny task and we're standing guard for big tasks. If you want to get anything meaningful done, you've got to become a ruthless defender of your time. You've got to stand guard 24/7. This video shows you how to heal the 1,000 lacerations and get back to optimal efficiency as quickly as possible. Check it out: https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time HERE'S WHAT WE COVER: 1. Why most people expend their energy making food, travel, social and schedule decisions and have nothing left to build anything (death by 1,000 cuts). 2. My recent move to Venice Beach, California and how it taught me a massive lesson on productivity. 3. Why productivity is a harmony of the individual, their environment and their routine and why you need to balance all three to unleash efficiency. 4. Why poor people make the same trivial decisions everyday and rich people make decisions that eliminate all future decisions (this lesson will change your life). 5. Why you should analyze the "half-life" of all the decisions you make to see how long they pay back dividends for. 6. "100 Units of Time: A useful exercise to see where your time goes each week and how to fix it by eliminating waste. 7. Why most tasks you think you need to do to be successful are actually the tasks you need to eliminate in order to be successful. Full blog video here: https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time Check out the video and let me know what you think in the comments? To Your Success! Sam Ovens & the team at Consulting.com. C'mon over to https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time where we answer your follow-up questions after the episode and provide the full mp3 as well as the transcript AND FREE TOOLS!  If you enjoyed this video, subscribe to our channel and get the world’s best consulting, mindset and business advice delivered straight to your inbox at https://www.consulting.com.   And if you’re interested in more videos on consulting, business and mindset, check out our YouTube playlist on those exact topics here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHuSHKiG9sNLCpcY70xr1gHR7hAdaW8N Thanks for watching!  FOLLOW US AT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samovensfan Twitter: https://twitter.com/samovensnz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sam.ovens LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samovens/

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Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions? This video shows you how to eliminate waste and unleash your power -- https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time

ABOUT THIS VIDEO:

Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions?

Tired of projects lying in limbo and not completing anything?

Chances are, you've suffered "death by 1,000 cuts".

It's the little things that waste our time and suck our energy dry. Its the "got a minute", "quick check" or "just this once" that sneak up on you and suffocate you.

The worst part is that you never see it coming because it disguises itself as a tiny task and we're standing guard for big tasks. 

If you want to get anything meaningful done, you've got to become a ruthless defender of your time. You've got to stand guard 24/7.

This video shows you how to heal the 1,000 lacerations and get back to optimal efficiency as quickly as possible. 

Check it out: https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time

HERE'S WHAT WE COVER:

1. Why most people expend their energy making food, travel, social and schedule decisions and have nothing left to build anything (death by 1,000 cuts). 

2. My recent move to Venice Beach, California and how it taught me a massive lesson on productivity. 

3. Why productivity is a harmony of the individual, their environment and their routine and why you need to balance all three to unleash efficiency.

4. Why poor people make the same trivial decisions everyday and rich people make decisions that eliminate all future decisions (this lesson will change your life).

5. Why you should analyze the "half-life" of all the decisions you make to see how long they pay back dividends for.

6. "100 Units of Time: A useful exercise to see where your time goes each week and how to fix it by eliminating waste.

7. Why most tasks you think you need to do to be successful are actually the tasks you need to eliminate in order to be successful.

Full blog video here: https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time

Check out the video and let me know what you think in the comments?

To Your Success!

Sam Ovens & the team at Consulting.com.

C'mon over to https://www.consulting.com/channel/death-by-1000-cuts-how-you-waste-time where we answer your follow-up questions after the episode and provide the full mp3 as well as the transcript AND FREE TOOLS! 

If you enjoyed this video, subscribe to our channel and get the world’s best consulting, mindset and business advice delivered straight to your inbox at https://www.consulting.com.
 
And if you’re interested in more videos on consulting, business and mindset, check out our YouTube playlist on those exact topics here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHuSHKiG9sNLCpcY70xr1gHR7hAdaW8N

Thanks for watching! 

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Death By 1,000 Cuts: How You Waste Time

Face that obstacle right now. Think about the things you were always afraid of. You need to fix, change or face!If you go down the road and someone cuts you off, wave to him; if you order chicken and they bring you steak, eat it and say 'thank you'. Why? Because the little problems don't matter anymore. Get bigger problems and solve them. Instead of solving hundred-dollar problems, solve million-dollar problems.Always remember: they're the same amount of stress, so why not add more zeros?!

Turn The Ship Into The Storm

<ol><li>Meditate (being present and not distracted by any thought)</li><li>Journal: observe your actions and make small changes where you need to; write down at least 3 things you are grateful for, from that day</li><li>Exercise </li><li>Express yourself (be authentic) and don't let unqualified people give you even a hint about what is right and what is wrong (they're projecting their fears onto you)</li><li>Observe your thinking: is your self-talk positive or negative? What is the source of your negative thinking? Then eliminate it.</li></ol>

Practical Things To Start Improving Your Life

If the outcome you imagine is bad, so will become the reality!Instead of telling yourself: "If I leave my kids (due to a divorce), I'm going to do them what my parents did to me and screw up their life. I'll never be the same", say: "The fact is I can not undo time, so I'm going to build a next level relationship with my kids and my ex" and reality will align (the author went from a life of really bad anxiety to being best friends with his ex and having the best relationship with their kids).

What Stands Between You And Your Next Level Life Is Your Story

Screw the what-ifs. For example, replace, in your relationship with your ex, worrying about your ego and what's fair and keeping score with love (for example, say 'ok, that's what you think and that's just fine').

Death By 1,000 Cuts: How You Waste Time

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