Author: Brain Tracy
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Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. Wow! What an idea.
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“Failure to execute” is one of the biggest problems in organizations today. Many people confuse activity with accomplishment.
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The completion of an important task triggers the release of endorphins in your brain. These endorphins give you a natural “high.”
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When you develop this addiction, you will, at an unconscious level, begin to organize your life in such a way that you are continually starting and completing ever more important tasks and projects.
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You remember the story of the man who stops a musician on a street in New York and asks how he can get to Carnegie Hall. The musician replies, “Practice, man, practice.”
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Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future.
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Only about 3 percent of adults have clear, written goals. These people accomplish five and ten times as much as people of equal or better education and ability but who, for whatever reason, have never taken the time to write out exactly what they want.
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You have heard the old question, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer is “One bite at a time!”
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as Alec Mackenzie wrote, “Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.”
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Your ability to make good plans before you act is a measure of your overall competence.
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It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.
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Six-P Formula. It says, “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.”
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Always work from a list. When something new comes up, add it to the list before you do it. You can increase your productivity and output by 25 percent or more—about two hours a day—from the first day that you begin working consistently from a list.
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Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely.
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One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 Rule. This rule says that the first 10 percent of time that you spend planning and organizing your work before you begin will save you as much as 90 percent of the time in getting the job done once you get started.
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He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results,
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Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first.
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Before you begin work, always ask yourself, “Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?”
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Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events.
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Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.
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“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”