Do you often find your workday spiraling out of control?
Do you want to be more productive than you did yesterday?
Do you want to know how to improve your skill set and work performance?
Do you start each day with a plan, but soon become distracted and procrastinating?
You are not alone. Sometimes, it’s easier to wait for someone else to tell you what things you should work on rather than to assess yourself.
Focusing on continually improving your skill set will boost your confidence and help you become the best version of yourself.
In today’s episode, Benjamin and I discuss what you need to know to increase productivity:
- Basics of productivity: what you do, how you do it
- Set goals: yearly, quarterly, weekly, daily
- Set SMARTER goals (see here for the article about Michael Hyatts goal setting system)
- Specific
- Measurable
- Actionable
- Risky
- Time-keyed
- Exciting
- Relevant
- Develop a habit of daily checking your goals
- Why
- How
- When
- Habit vs achievement goals
- You’re personal vs your work goals
- The value of accountability
- The value of rewarding yourself
Listen to this episode to be an effective statistician!
References
Living Forward book by Michael Hyatt
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I want to help the community of statisticians, data scientists, programmers and other quantitative scientists to be more influential, innovative, and effective. I believe that as a community we can help our research, our regulatory and payer systems, and ultimately physicians and patients take better decisions based on better evidence.
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When my kids are sick, I want to have good evidence to discuss with the physician about the different therapy choices.
When my mother is sick, I want her to understand the evidence and being able to understand it.
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I want to live in a world, where the media reports correctly about medical evidence and in which society distinguishes between fake evidence and real evidence.
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