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Instant Focus: Get One Productive Hour (on Command) and Finish Every Task You’ve Been Putting Off

June 22, 201226 Comments

What if there was an easy way you could not only...

  • Improve your presentation, speaking, and product creation skills?
  • Create more free content, get yourself more free traffic and figure out what your audience wants?
  • Get in the habit of completing all your tasks in one day?

But at the same time, actually knocked out the most important tasks in your life -- even the ones you might have been putting off?

This is a technique I've been using for at least 5 years. It's really weird (but easy) to do, and it it's something I use every time I keep procrastinating on a task I want to do, I choose to do, but just can't "bring myself to do..."

  1. I resize my screen small enough to only have one window open (usually 1024x600)
  2. I close any distracting windows including Gmail, Twitter, or Facebook
  3. I RECORD THE SCREEN using Camtasia Recorder (you can use Screencast-O-Matic for free), narrate, and "tutorialize" the task that I've been delaying
  4. I upload that video recording to YouTube with a linkback to my site to get some extra traffic

For example, today I wanted to publish my book to Amazon CreateSpace. But there are many forms to fill out and lots of tweaking involved.

I had to get it done. I didn't want or need to get it perfect, it just had to be submitted!

And here's me fumbling around on Amazon CreateSpace, submitting my first print book:

I call this the "Camtasia Babysitter" -- because you're recording the screen, it keeps you from pausing or getting distracted by other windows or alerts.

What's one task you could perform, that you know you "should" do, that you "want" to do and even "choose" to do... but now you can record the screen to make sure you finish it?

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