Did you accomplish your goals last year? How about last quarter? How about yesterday? It's such a lousy feeling when you get to the end of the day and you realize you just haven't accomplished that much. Can you remember a time when you were in total flow and had an incredibly productive day? Man that feels good. In today's episode of The Land.MBA Podcast, we're going to deconstruct 5 techniques that you can use to improve your productivity by an order of magnitude. There’s lot’s of different kinds of productivity. There's individual productivity, team productivity and there's organizational productivity. A lot of us in land investing are solopreneurs. So we just have to figure out how to get ourselves productive. Here are the 5 ways to up your productivity: Goal setting If we don't know what it is we're trying to accomplish, chances are we're not going to accomplish it. Triage Understand what's urgent versus what's important. Smartphones Are they tools of the trade, or are they destructive? Schedule Schedule your work each day so you know what has to be done. Manage people We're not just talking about employees, but we're talking about customers, we're talking about partners, we're talking about family members. We're talking about whoever could be impeding upon your time and your ability to stay focused on the task at hand. Goal setting for land investors is absolutely critical. Things like this quarter, I'm going to get my website out. I'm going to increase my deal flow to 5 properties a month to 10 properties a month. Whatever it is, have that goal and deconstruct it. Figure out what it's going to take to achieve that goal and break that into daily and weekly goals and daily tasks. If you execute these five rules, I guarantee you, your productivity will improve by an order of magnitude!