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DO YOU CONFUSE ACTIVITY WITH ACCOMPLISHMENT?
From a new post to my Blog . . .
Almost everyone I know is busy. Heck, even the RETIRED people I know are busy.
It doesn't matter whether you're in business for yourself or
work for someone else, you no doubt find your day filled with activity. You may
even feel overwhelmed a lot of the time.
But being busy by itself doesn't really amount to much. You
can be busy being busy, but not be making much--or any--progress.
I heard it from someone just the other day. They said they
worked the entire day in their office. I asked what they did all day, but they
really couldn't really tell me. All they
could say was that they made phone calls, handled email, surfed the Web and
worked on "various" projects.
But when I asked if any of this generated
income--something quite important to this person--they couldn't come up with a
single thing which did.
Being busy and working hard may give you some satisfaction,
but it's a false sense. The Universe rewards results--not activity.
So what do YOU do? Do you confuse activity with accomplishment?
I hope not.
Do you know the top three most important, high-payoff activities
that will contribute to achieving your goals?
I hope so.
If not, I recommend investing some of your "busy
time" to determine what those tasks are.
Which ones should you do every day?
Which ones every week?
And if increasing your revenue is important, here's what I
suggest: Set yourself an appointment each day for your 3M (3M stands for
Maximum Monetization Minutes). This is a period of time each day or week that
you devote exclusively for ideating, planning and implementing income-generating
activities.
The Pareto Principle--the old 80/20 rule--applies here.
Usually 80 percent of your intended results are created by
less than 20% of your efforts. The key is to honestly acknowledge what you need
to be working on to create the greatest progress.
I don't know of a better use of your time than to get clear
on your highest pay-off activities and then discipline yourself to only work on
those.
Here's a list that will help you focus on what those high-priority
activities are:
* revenue
generating
* something
very important and must be accomplished
* something
that directly relates to your goals
* anything
you truly can't delegate
Go ahead, make that list. Prioritize your tasks and watch
your productivity soar.
It's also a good thing to discuss with your MasterMind Team and/or your staff.
Oh, and if you don't have a Mastermind Team, you can join
one in our Diamond Club program.
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you want to achieve excellence, you can
As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent
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