Dan Martell

Why?

Because I want to make sure we're always aligned.

It's one-on-one time because busy families sometimes forget that that one-on-one time is where you have these beautiful conversations and moments that otherwise might get missed.

Standardizing my meetings because I already have the rhythm from doing my time and energy audit from before is a game changer for productivity.

Every meeting should have these five things.

First, you should have an agenda.

The other is you have a project owner, what I call a DRI, direct responsible individual, like who owns a meeting.

And guess what?

It's rarely me.

Three, what are the decisions we want to make in this meeting?

Fourth is what are the next steps?

Do we have them?

And then when are the deadlines for those decisions?

If you make sure every meeting has this, you will become incredibly productive.

And if you don't, it's just noise.

If you build these into your daily, monthly, and yearly systems, you'll see yourself get way more productive, way faster.

Now I know when I share these strategies with people, they usually push back, especially if they're creative, especially if they're people that they just wanna like be a little bit more free in life because it can sound like a lot of systems.

It can sound like a lot of structure and a lot of people don't like structure.

What you may not realize is that if you wanna be creative, then you have to have constraints.

It's always been that way.