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Notion.so – The Secret Hack, To Productivity Hacks

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The Secret Hack, to Productivity Hacks.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about productivity hacks, but specifically, the secret hack behind all productivity hacks. And this came after I’ve come in contact just in the past week, with a whole lot of people giving advice on pieces of software and services you can get online that are productivity hacks. That are things that will help you be more productive as a business owner, as a person that’s maybe entrepreneurial thinking or what have you.

And I and I will give you lists over time.

Here’s one specific one that I just came in contact with. It’s called notion. And I’ll put the link in the description. notion is a productivity hack. In a sense, it’s a website that allows you to organize your thoughts in a certain way.

I’m trying it out so far and as with most cases, I find that if they’re somewhat helpful, I really enjoy them in the very beginning.

But the real test is over time is after the excitement has kind of died down. And I have to deal with it on a regular basis.

All the fun is taken out of it because I know all of its functionality.

What now, how useful is it?

But so far I’ve been I’ve been pretty happy with this one, I’ll give you more info. As time goes on, we’ll see how well it works in the long run.

Here’s what I found.

Here’s the big hack behind all productivity hacks.

And it’s this one size does not fit all.

Just because it works for somebody does not mean it’s going to work for you, it can be great and life changing for them. I mean, honestly, one little piece of software, one little website or service that you subscribe to, or even Oh, the Holy Grail, the free online service, that changes your life, right?

That can happen. It can happen it can, it does exist for some people.

But you got to remember, it has a lot to do with your co nation with your mentality with your personality with how you function, and everybody’s different.

This is what’s crazy, everybody’s different.

Now, if you know more about co nation, like we’ve discussed before that Kathy Kolbe way of thinking, you can look up more at Kolbe.com, K O L B E dot com.

You can find out all about her companies, and the ideas that they’re trying to spread in terms of figuring out people’s co nation. So being able to quantify how you work best, and then showing you how to do that and how to work with others that work best in different ways.

That’s been a huge eye opener, because it shown me that just because I can’t figure out how to do something that seems to work for everybody else, doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with me.

It’s just not the way I’m wired.

I’m wired a different way, and I’ve got to find other people that are wired in other ways to be able to fill in the gaps in my business, in my projects that I work on and everything else.

So what’s that have to do with productivity?

Productivity is different for everybody. Everyone’s going to be productive in different ways.

This is the kind of the issues with school right now is they tend to have one cookie cutter way, especially the public school system has one cookie cutter way in the United States, of how you should be doing it of the proper way that you should be sitting in a class for this much time.

You should be paying attention to the teacher, you should be writing notes. You should have a certain amount of homework every night. All the shoulds.

And even parents do this to their kids. They think well, this is what worked for me, so why isn’t it working for you?

You must be lazy.

You must have something wrong with you.

You must need, you know, mental therapy or something. You must need medication not that there aren’t people that do but in general, I don’t think it’s necessary.

I think that we are so different in how we function and how we think that we think that one thing works for all and so with productivity hacks, taking it back to you and taking it back to become be trying to be more productive.

I’ll give you my own story.

My own story is I’m extremely unorganized, have been my entire life.

I mean, there’s organization to it but not…it’s not a real strict organization.

I love organization, I love things that are organized, I love being able to find things, being able to train myself.

In order to do that, I have failed time after time, after time, after time again.

I can put things in order. I can organize things I can alphabetize things.

I remember even as a kid, I had my baseball cards organized in shoe boxes, and I had them alphabetically organized, you know, or I could do it a million different ways.

But I tend to stick alphabetical and I love doing that type of thing. It’s relaxing for me to be able to organize things that are very alike things if I could organize them great.

But my life is not a bunch of like things, my life is a whole bunch of different things, different projects, different businesses.

And so, disorganization always tends to win out when I’m trying to focus on something else. Everything else goes on organized and I forget how I had it organized to begin with.

And so most of the productivity tools out there do not fit me and I can tell within a few minutes that they don’t fit me.

Every once a while I get closer and closer for the longest time I was working with Trello T R E L L O, I don’t know if you’ve seen that one, Trello.

It’s basically in the sense, it’s like a digital cork board, if you could say that.

It’s very, very useful for what it does that and they have a they have a name for that type of structure and that type of organization. And I can’t remember what it is off the top my head. But there’s a process for that and those are great.

That’s a very, it’s a very open system. But it hasn’t worked the best, I haven’t been able to do it ongoing.

It’s very difficult for me to bring a new person in and train them up on that and explain to the big picture, which is where notion comes in this notion, website allows me to zoom back and show them the big picture.

But also zoom in to each individual area, and show the details of it and be able to go deeper and deeper and deeper into one subject. So that’s a cool thing.

Maybe that’s be up your alley, maybe not.

Maybe you’re completely different for me. Don’t get caught up with all the productivity hacks, try something out.

Either it works or it doesn’t work.

If it doesn’t dump it, set it aside. bookmark it, if it makes you feel better, so that you have the ability to go back to it later. But don’t get freaked out, find what works for you.

And find what works for your team and the people that work with you. And if you do that, you’ll be happy in the long run.

I guarantee it at least that’s how it’s worked for me.

Hopefully that makes sense to you. If you like some strategies to help you grow your business this is my main thing is I helping you grow your business. Sometimes we deal more personal mindset issues.

But if you’re talking large scale your entire business, you’re gonna want to check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can go and buy it wherever books are sold, or you can go to AmazonProofBook.com and download your very own free copy. Do it now while it’s still available. That’s AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

This One Thing May Mean Life Or Death To Your Business

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Ever had a person in your business or heard a story of someone that was a good fit in one job but struggled in another?

Well, give Brian’s video a listen and be sure to checkout Kathy Kolbe’s work at the link below, it might save you a lot of trouble in the future when it comes to finding the right people for the right jobs.

Kolbe Corp – https://www.kolbe.com/

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This one thing may mean life or death to your business.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

What is that one thing?

Well, there’s a lot of things that can mean life or death your business. But there’s one thing is, is one that isn’t discussed often enough and it is also something that is very common.

If you have any type of partners, employees, contractors that you work with this one thing can make a huge difference, especially right now we are in a period of time. So I’m filming this in 2021.

But we’re in a period of time when boy, anything is possible. And so many people are on the edge anyways, with their business, that one switch and government regulation or one change and how we’re handling a virus or anything else. That could be the end that, could be game over for you and your business.

It’s really important that you pay attention to the little things, the little things that don’t seem like a big deal in the beginning, that can really add up to something huge, a huge difference in your business. And this comes from a conversation I was having earlier today, two conversations, two separate conversations that I was having, with two separate people in two different industries.

One was in his in the real estate industry, the other one is in the banking industry. But they both brought up the same issue. And that is this.

Taking someone who is good at, let’s say, sales, and putting them in a management position, could destroy your business.

Why do I say that?

I’m not saying it’s it’s definite, I’m saying it could very well happen. And it goes the other way around. Also someone who is really good with management, if you take them and try to put them in some type of head of sales position.

Quite often they’re different types of personalities, people with different combinations, which we’ve discussed about here before. coronations is a term that’s been used a lot, especially in relation with the Kolbe index, which you could find out more go look up Kathy Kolbe, both with a K, go check out all the stuff on Kathy Kolbe and what she writes about coordination, and how that’s so important that you know the coordination of the people that you’re working with.

Because it’s the type of things that don’t change, it’s the things that that of how a person handles work, and how they function in a working environment, that really doesn’t change that’s hardwired.

And it’s not there’s no good or bad to it, it’s just certain people are always going to be better at certain things than other things. And oftentimes, you take someone that’s just a star player in one area, and you try to bring them up the ladder and put them in a position that is not fitting to them, they will crash and burn.

They have the ability to take down your whole operation with them. Okay, this is something you got to pay attention to. The thing I recommend doing is looking into the concept of coordination. Like I said, Kathy Kolbe has some great stuff on this go to you go check out colby.com, which will have a link in the description for that.

Check out all the details and the things that people talk about when it comes to co nation. Because co nation it’s very different from personality. And it’s a it’s very different from cognition.

When you’re talking that personality is more, she talks about it being the affective part of the mind. So part dealing a lot with emotions and about how we handle people. That’s one side of the mind. There’s another part of the mind, that’s cognitive.

That’s, you know, your IQ, the things that you learn over time, a lot of that comes and goes right, the cognitive is completely different parts of the mind. And the cognitive part of the mind.

The cognitive part of the mind, is how you function and it doesn’t matter if you’re a child all the way up and through into and through adulthood. You handle things pretty close to being the same way and some people handle certain situations.

Well, they just do it in a different way.

And so this is why certain people are fit for certain types of jobs while other people are not. And that’s all conation, look into it. It’s one of the best discoveries I’ve ever made when it comes to running a business and it’s something I recommend all my clients when it comes to dealing with an organization if you have an organization of people, you have to pay attention to where that person is coming from, on a deeper level, the hardwired part of their brain, that doesn’t change, because it doesn’t matter if they want to succeed at that position, they oftentimes cannot if they do not have the cognitive ability to.

So hopefully that makes sense to you. If you want to find out more about strategy, business strategy and how you can really outline your business to make it competition proof, go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

How to Dissect Your Customer’s Brain

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How to dissect your customer’s brain.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back. I’m not in the Orange Office today. I’m in a random room in my, in the Pombo manner. I’m speaking to you a little more quieter because we have children that are asleep right now and we’d like to keep it that way. I am in Grants Pass Oregon though and today we’re going to be talking to a little bit about psychology, a little bit about your customers brain and how it works.

A couple of ideas that I came across that really completely changed my life in terms of how I relate with myself and how I relate with others. Including relationship with my wife, how I deal with coworkers and how I deal with customers, long-term customers and clients. If you’d like to learn more. If you find any of this interesting at all and you’d like to see how it applies specifically to your business, you’re to want to set up, set up a time to be able to chat with me or somebody at BrianJPombo.com.

You’re welcome to purchase a strategy session and we can talk about any of these things that you would like and be able to fit it into your business and be able to make it profitable for you.

If you happen to be a business owner in the self-reliance field, meaning that you help people to become more self reliant through your products, your services, or your story, you’re someone I’d like to talk to.

Especially if you’re a business owner or an executive and go to DreamBizChat.com you can find the link in the description or you can just type it in directly. DreamBizChat.com on that website. It’s pretty self explanatory.

Watch the video, fill out the application and we’ll go from there. If you qualify, you’ll get a chance to be able to talk for me, talk with me for free. So let’s get back to dissecting your customer’s brain.

There’s a lot of different things that a person can go into when discussing human psychology and when it comes to how you relate back and forth with your customer base, whether they be prospective customers, current customers, or past customers.

That’s how I like to divide them up too. That’s a whole other issue. But I always love dividing things up into three. So whenever I find something that divides things up into threes, it tends to stick in my mind and tends to make a lot of sense. This particular concept was introduced to me by Kathy Colby. You’ll find her name in the description. Kathy Colby, inventor of the Kolbe Index, and she does a whole lot of work in the format of Conative Thinking.

I’m going to go into what that is in a second here in how she describes it. It’s a theory that I definitely subscribe to. I’ve just seen too much in working with people to not believe this to be true. And that’s that you can very easily split up the conscious mind into three different spots.

So everything that you would call, maybe your personality or how you function in everyday life can be broken up into one of these three areas. So I’ll show you that my little diagram here. So we’ve got, here’s average person here, average brain and split up into these three areas.

You’ve got Cognitive, Affective and Conative.

Cognitive has everything to do with your thinking, everything you do in terms of thinking and thought.

So that this is in terms of what you’re learning, things that everything in school is mainly based on a cognitive basis. It’s what you consciously know. So that can range from everyone can range and you can, it changes throughout your life.

You can know very little at first, go through some schooling, go through life, learn a whole bunch, maybe forget a whole bunch of cognitive can go up and down throughout your lifetime. Everyone’s on different level in terms of Cognitive.

Affective, it has to do everything with feeling and specifically relationships and feeling with relationships.

So everything that you feel on an emotional level and how you relate with your emotions comes back to the effect of a lot of times when people describe personalities, if you’ve studied any type of personality theory, whether it be Myers Briggs test as a common one, you might see out there.

Another one is the DISC, which is all based on….I forgot his name, the original person that started discussing it. Basically breaks down all of your personalities into four different sectors.

So sometimes that’s called the DISC profile. Sometimes it’s referred to by the humors in the body. We’re going to get into that on another, on another talk. In fact tomorrow we’ll talk about Affective.

Conative is one that doesn’t get talked about enough and that’s everything that has to do with doing so. All of your action phase is actually on a different level of your brain than the other two. How you act, how you willfully move forward in something, how you do work, whether it be in school or whether it be in your job. That all comes down to Conative.

And Conative has been broken down into four main sectors. Everyone’s got a little bit of each, but depending on where you would be on a scale can tell you a whole lot about a person on where they land on Conative. That’s another area.

We’ll talk about that in a couple of days.

But I wanted to break down these three areas just to show you, just to start the conversation and we’re going to get a little bit more deeper. Cognitive, definitely the area that is the most complicated and it’s going to be very, very different across the board with most people.

But it all has to do with thought and memory and so forth. We’re going to dig into Affective and Conative and talk about how it affects your business. Tomorrow we’ll talk about Affective, so how do your feelings and how do your customers feelings determine how they relate back and forth to you and whether they actually relate to you or not.

We’re going to talk about that tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.