I've tried multiple books, read about every productivity system ever invented, tried thousands of articles over hundreds of websites...

"Ye have read, ye have heard, ye have thought," he said, "and the tale is yet to run: By the worth of the body that once ye had, give answer - what ha' ye done?"

Perhaps you just phrased yourself poorly, but the form of your answer does not suggest to me that you have, you know, actually made an effort, extraordinary or otherwise.