There's a lot of people that know a lot of stuff.
I mean, their head is full of information, but they just can't seem to do anything with it.
They know a lot, but they don't achieve a lot.
Then there are some people who don't seem to know as much as others, but they just seem to succeed so much more and that is what we are covering today - how to regain productivity.
First, we have to understand that social media has net positives and net negatives.
The positives are you can get business from social media, you can interact with friends, and you can see how your family is doing.
The negatives are spending too much time on social media, following too many food pages, puppy pages, and any pages that really serve no underlying value to what you’re trying to achieve.
This becomes a problem because if you spend too much time on social media you will use up a lot of mind energy preventing you from making the best decisions when managing Facebook ads or really any other important task.
Your emotions become your actions and social media is full of creating emotions.
If you see an ad that is flaunting money, cars and fame.
That triggers an emotion and if that emotion triggered you to wonder why you don’t have those things and you get upset and decide to raise your personal ad spend in hopes of getting more clients so you can afford those nice cars.
Well that’s a dumb reason to raise your ad spend because it’s backed by emotion not data.
Decisions with managing your Facebook ads should NOT be emotion-driven.
We need to make decisions by being data-driven.
Data-driven decision making involves making decisions that are backed up by hard data rather than making decisions that are intuitive or based on observation alone.
How do you avoid making emotional decisions?
You remove the source.
This is called doing a digital declutter removing the force that is holding you back.
Doing a digital declutter has five primary benefits.
1. It lowers anxiety.
2. It prevents a hijacking of your morning.
3. It scales back behavioral addiction.
4. It improves cognitive performance.
5. It increases productivity.
These five benefits ultimately bring more energy and focus into the more important task at hand.
So if your work is done on your laptop or social media... And you want to scale up your productivity you will first need to scale back your distractions by doing a digital declutter.
1. Start with your notifications.
Go to settings turn off:
• Music notifications.
• Social media notifications.
• App notifications.
• Email notifications.
• Do not disturb turned 'on' works great too.
In most cases, you really don't need to be instantly notified about anything unless it's an absolute emergency and an emergency in today's context should not be responding to a comment or replying to an email or notification.
Those things can wait... focus on your goal...
2. Browser add ons.
• Remove all your browser add ons... Except for the ones you absolutely need.
• I only have two - one for 'LastPass' and the other for 'Facebook pixel helper'.
3. Now remove notifications from your individual social media platforms...
• Unfollow people you don't interact or engage with.
• Leave groups that you don't interact in.
• Unlike pages, you don't engage with.
• Turn off notifications from being sent to your phone, laptop, and email.
• Unsubscribe from Youtube Channels you don't watch anymore. Or better yet Unsubscribe if it does not help your goal.
4. Unsubscribe from email lists.
• If it does not provide value. Unsubscribe.
• If you aren't interested. Unsubscribe.
• If you keep getting spammed. Unsubscribe.
5. Closeout all your browser tabs.
It's simple but effective.
• This one means using only one tab as if you are at the beginning of the 2000's again.
• Just remember the more tabs you have means the more distractions so close them all out.
6. Clean up your bookmarks.
• Organize bookmarks into folders.
• Remove unnecessary bookmarks.
7. Delete every app that you don't use.
Be honest do you need the app?
If not, delete it.
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When managing Facebook ads it’s not just about knowing the tactics that matter its much more than that.
It’s really having clarity and a clear head space that allows you to make important decisions to either edit, change, or pivot with your Facebook ads.
And you don’t want to be multi-tasking or taking up other valuable mind-space by thinking about something else while you are making significant edits.
Because 1 wrong click or 1 bad decision can totally affect the results you get.
So if you implement these 7 productive hacks you will see a big jump in productivity and honestly cognitive performance too.
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To your success.
- Chase
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