(Dr. Steve G. Jones asks it on the first track of this Complete Edition, before you ever open your email. The second track helps you leave the day at work, and the third helps the work itself mean something to you.)
It’s twenty to six, and by any measure it has been a full day.
There were forty-odd emails, two meetings that ran over and a dozen “quick questions” at the side of the desk. Every one of them got an answer. You never stopped.
And the one piece of work that would actually have moved things forward, the report or the plan or the proposal, is sitting exactly where it sat at nine o’clock this morning, open in a window you haven’t looked at since lunch.
So it comes home with you. It sits with you through dinner, and it’s the first thing on your mind when you wake.
Do you know that feeling of having been busy all day without having done the thing that mattered?
Most people who work at a desk know it well. Some of them have been living with it for years and calling it normal.
There’s no rushing. One board lies on a clean bench, the tools hang on the wall each in its place, and a single long stroke of the plane follows another until the wood is smooth.
At the end of the week there’s a finished table standing in the corner, and it looks as if it took no effort at all.
The craftsman isn’t working more hours than you. They may well be working fewer. Yet at the end of the day there’s something to show for it, and at six o’clock they hang up the apron and go home.
There’s a reason for that, and it has very little to do with talent.
The usual fixes for a busy, unproductive day are to start earlier, stay later, download another planner or learn to type faster. All of them add speed or hours, and none of them change which task gets your best hour.
On the Increase Productivity At Work track, Dr. Steve G. Jones goes after the belief underneath the busy day, and he does it in one sentence:
“I now give you permission to let go of the old idea that a busy day is the same as a productive day.”
Dr. Steve G. Jones, on the Increase Productivity At Work track
What replaces that idea is a single question, asked at the start of every working day before you open your email or your messages. We call it the Clean Bench Question, because it clears everything off the bench except the one board that matters.
All you need is a pair of headphones and one quiet listen a day. The question is planted while you’re deeply relaxed, so it’s waiting for you when you sit down at your desk.
Listened to each day, the track is made to help you:
So we’d ask one thing of you before you go back to your inbox. Read this letter to the end.
You’ll step into the workshop Steve takes you to on the track, hear the question for yourself and meet the man behind it, a hypnotherapist with an unusually full working life who once had to live out of his own office.
And at the end, you can take the Clean Bench Question home inside the Increase Productivity At Work Complete Edition.
It begins with three deep breaths, Steve’s voice slow and steady. Then it’s early on an autumn morning, and soft golden light falls through a big window across a long wooden bench.
Everything has its place. The tools hang neatly on the wall, each one where it belongs, and the bench is clean and clear. You smell fresh pine shavings and the warm scent of the wood. A small stove ticks in the corner, and outside a bird is singing in the trees.
On the bench lies a long board of pale wood, and beside it an old hand plane, its handle worn smooth by years of good work.
Steve counts down from ten to one. With each number you picture one long, slow stroke of the plane along the board, a soft curl of wood falling to the floor, and with each stroke you sink a little deeper.
You run your hand along the board, and it’s perfectly smooth. Then you notice the table.
“It was made just like this, one part at a time, with each part given full attention until it was done.”
Dr. Steve G. Jones, on the Increase Productivity At Work track
And then he turns the table towards your own working life: “Good work is made the same way as that table. It is made one part at a time, with your full attention on the piece in front of you.”
That table is the discovery at the heart of this track. Nobody makes a table by working on twelve parts at once and answering the door between strokes.
Here is how each working day begins from now on, word for word as Steve gives it to you:
“Whenever you sit down to start your day, before you open your email or your messages, you ask yourself one simple question.
‘What is the one task that matters most today?’
You write it at the top of the page, and you begin it straight away, while your mind is at its freshest.”
Dr. Steve G. Jones, on the Increase Productivity At Work track
Then you clear the bench. You turn your notifications off, if your job allows it, put your phone face down in a drawer or out of reach, close everything except that one task, and work on it steadily, “the way the plane moves along the board,” until you come to a natural break.
If that sounds too obvious to be worth paying for, you’re in good company. Plenty of people have read advice like it on a blog and gone straight back to their inbox, because knowing what to do at nine in the morning has never been the hard part.
The hard part is the pull. The inbox is right there, and the small, easy jobs are calling. That’s why Steve doesn’t simply tell you the question. In deep relaxation he has you see yourself at the start of a working day, asking it, writing the answer at the top of the page, turning off your notifications and putting your phone away. As he falls silent you watch yourself begin, and you feel how good it is to give one task your full attention.
Near the end of the track, Steve asks you to think of the most important task waiting for you at work, and to see yourself tomorrow writing it at the top of the page and taking its first small step before anything else.
Around that first step, each listen rehearses the habits that keep the bench clear through the day:
Then Steve takes you six months ahead, to a working life where your important work gets your fresh mind each morning and each day ends with a clear plan for the next, and finally a year ahead, looking back over “a year of good work, with one task after another finished well.”
The best part comes at the end of the day. Steve describes it like a craftsman tidying the bench: you write down where you left off, you look back over what you finished and let yourself feel the satisfaction of it, and then you close your work for the day and leave it there.
“Your evening belongs to you and to the people and the things you enjoy, and you come back the next morning rested and ready.”
Dr. Steve G. Jones, on the Increase Productivity At Work track
For a lot of busy people, that sentence describes something they haven’t had in years: an evening with nothing from the office sitting on their shoulder.
It all begins with one question at the top of a page, asked before the inbox gets its turn.
Dr. Steve G. Jones is a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist who has practiced hypnotherapy and NLP since the 1980s. He manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP, and he is the President of both the American Alliance of Hypnotists and the American Union of NLP.
His coaching clients include top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs, and at one point his programs had 30,000 students enrolled.
He has kept on studying, too. After a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Florida in 1994, he added a Master’s in Education in 2007, an Education Specialist degree in 2009 and a Doctorate in Education from Georgia Southern University in 2013.
It wasn’t always that way. Career detours and failed business ventures once left him $80,000 in credit card debt, with collection agencies at the door. An eviction followed, and he moved into his office, which he was close to losing as well.
His About page describes the turn simply: he “discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, as well as create systems in place to put his life back on track.”
A clean bench is exactly that kind of system, small enough to use every morning.
Because the inbox habit doesn’t live in the part of you that reads productivity advice. It lives deeper, in the reach for the mouse the moment you sit down and the small thrill of a new message arriving, and it fires before you’ve thought about it at all.
Self-hypnosis is a way of reaching that deeper level. As Steve’s own site puts it, self-hypnosis “allows us to access the subconscious mind directly and reprogram it” with new beliefs. The way we see it, that’s why the track spends so long rehearsing the morning in your imagination instead of simply listing tips.
There’s a simple reason the notepad matters too: an unfinished task held in your head keeps tugging at the attention you need for the one in front of you. In Steve’s words, “the notepad holds it safely for you, so your mind is free for the task in front of you.”
And as for why nobody teaches this, most workplaces reward the quick reply. The person who answers every message within minutes looks dedicated, while the person quietly finishing the important work looks unavailable, at least until the work is done.
Two questions are left once the work is done well. How do you stop it following you home, and what is it all for? Each one has its own track in this edition.
Reduce Work Stress is made for bedtime. Steve has you drift away “like a ship leaving the harbor,” and then works on the pressure of the working day itself. He suggests you write the things that cause stress at work in a journal and brainstorm a constructive response to each, that you choose your own boundaries, “such as not answering messages on the weekend or at night,” and that you hold on to one idea above all: “Although you are not always able to control the situation, you can always control your reactions.”
Discover Your Life's Purpose answers the bigger question. On a mountain meadow at sunrise you find a small brass compass, and Steve helps you choose three words for what matters most to you. Then he brings it straight back to the job you already have: “Whatever work you do now, you look for the part of it that helps someone, and you give that part your very best.”
If one question can change which task gets your best hour, what could three tracks do for the whole of your working life?
Unedited. These are about Steve’s hypnosis work in general, not about this edition.
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“I just listen and notice the change.”
I have been lucky enough to be able to listen to Steve Jones’ recordings for about 7 or 8 years. I have always believed in hypnosis and have found these recordings to be effective and very useful. I just listen and notice the change.
Increase Productivity At Work Complete EditionThree self-hypnosis tracks by Dr. Steve G. Jones for good work, a calmer evening and work that means something
The beauty of it is how little it adds to a busy week. There’s no software to learn and no new system to keep up. You listen, Steve guides you, and the habits are rehearsed while you rest.
You won’t need to stay later, get up earlier or color-code a calendar.
You’ll also find each of the three on a page of its own at dreamlifetrack.com:
Track 1 of 3
The workshop, the hand plane and the finished table. Steve plants the Clean Bench Question for the start of each day, then the habits around it: messages at set times, a notepad for interruptions, the first small step on a big job and a tidy close to the working day.
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Track 2 of 3
Made for bedtime. Drifting off like a ship leaving the harbor, you take in a calmer way of meeting the day’s pressures, from writing down what stresses you and planning a response to setting boundaries that keep work out of your evenings.
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Track 3 of 3
Near the top of a mountain at sunrise you find a small brass compass. Steve uses it to help you name three values, notice what lights you up and find the part of your work that helps someone, so the work you do well also means something to you.
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Most of us were trained on the job to be responsive, to answer fast, say yes and keep every plate spinning. Nobody stopped to show us the one question that decides which plate actually matters.
So a busy, scattered day isn’t evidence that you’re disorganized or lazy. It only shows that you were working without the Clean Bench Question.
Used daily, one track after another, the three tracks are built to help you develop:
Count up what a scattered day really costs: the project that slips another week, the evening spent catching up, and the quiet worry that you’re working flat out and getting nowhere.
All three are on sale individually at dreamlifetrack.com, and bought that way, they come to this:
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One order for all three costs you less than three separate orders, which works out cheaper than two and a half tracks bought singly, at roughly $23.32 a track.
Quoted exactly. They speak about Steve’s work as a whole.
Dr. Steve G. Jones is without a doubt the best in his field.
WOW! No wonder Steve is the leader in hypnotherapy. How lucky are those who have had the benefit of his genius!
Being someone who is extremely familiar with the power of hypnosis, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that Clinical Hypnotherapist Steve G. Jones is among the best in the world.
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There’s honestly not much to it:
It’s the evening you shut the laptop at a sensible hour, with the day’s one important task done, tomorrow’s written at the top of a fresh page and nothing from the office following you out of the door.
We can’t tell you which evening it will be, because every working life is different. What the edition does is rehearse the whole shape of that day, again and again, until starting with the one task that matters feels like the obvious way to begin.
After that evening, a full inbox looks like what it is, a list of things that can wait until eleven.
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You can go one of two ways from here.
Go Back To The Inbox And Hope Next Week Is Calmer(Not recommended)
It’s possible to shut this page and keep the day exactly as it is. The emails will keep coming, the quick questions will keep arriving at the side of your desk, and the important work will keep waiting for a quiet afternoon that rarely comes.
Habits like that tend to travel. A day run by the inbox becomes a career run by other people’s urgency, and the work you’re actually capable of keeps getting pushed to next month.
Say “Maybe” To The Clean Bench Question(Recommended)
Get the edition, listen to Increase Productivity At Work today, and tomorrow, before anything else, write the one task that matters at the top of the page. Feel what it’s like to start a day with a clean bench.
All you need is a pair of headphones and one quiet listen a day. And if the edition turns out not to be right for you, the guarantee below means you lose nothing.
So the only real question is this one. What is the one task that matters most tomorrow?
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Three MP3 audio tracks of self-hypnosis, all by Dr. Steve G. Jones: Increase Productivity At Work (the Clean Bench Question and the habits around it), Reduce Work Stress (a bedtime track for the pressure of work) and Discover Your Life's Purpose (values, strengths and the part of your work that helps someone).
Steve’s suggestion on the track is to turn notifications off “if your job allows it,” so the track already allows for jobs where that isn’t possible. The question at the start of the day, the notepad for interruptions, the first small step and the tidy end to the day all work in any job.
Quite the opposite. The track ends each working day with tomorrow’s task written down and your work closed for the evening, and Reduce Work Stress suggests boundaries of your own choosing, such as not answering messages at night or at the weekend.
Increase Productivity At Work and Discover Your Life's Purpose bring you back wide awake, so they suit any quiet time in the day. Reduce Work Stress is a bedtime track that ends with suggestions for a restful sleep. Listen only when no one and nothing will disturb you, and never while driving.
Everyone is different, so nobody can give you a date. You get a first step straight away: tomorrow morning, before your email, ask “What is the one task that matters most today?” and begin it. Steve suggests 21 days with each track, and the guarantee runs 30 days.
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It will be full, the way it always is, and it will look urgent, the way it always does. If nothing changes, the important work will wait again, and at twenty to six it will still be sitting in a window you haven’t looked at since lunch.
Or the first thing you do tomorrow can be to write one line at the top of a clean page. Click the button, finish at ClickBank’s secure checkout, and the tracks can be playing on your phone in a few minutes. Tonight, step into the workshop.
If you’ve read this whole letter on a busy day, you already know how to give one thing your full attention. The edition simply makes that the way every working day begins.
With best wishes for tomorrow morning, from all of us at Dream Life Tracks
P.S. The question fits on a single line: “What is the one task that matters most today?” On the track it goes in while you’re deeply relaxed, so it’s waiting for you before your inbox is. The 30-day guarantee means the only thing you risk by trying it is one quiet listen a day.
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