How to Accomplish More in One Hour Than Most People Do All Day
Choose the one most important immediate task to accomplish and get it done now to move ahead
How can you do more in a few hours than most of your colleagues do in a day? SImple. Do only one thing.
Do not look for the latest system. Do not spend half your day organizing. Right now, pull out a piece of paper and write down - what one thing can you do today that will make the biggest immediate effect on your job. Not five days from now, not five weeks, but immediately. You may have a list of several important things. Look at them carefully and pick just one that will have a bigger immediate effect today.
Got one? Go ahead and do it. It might take 10 minutes, it might take two hours. But if you do it you will be miles ahead.
The fact is most people spend most of their day avoiding the most significant things that they need to do. They plan, they research, they write reports, they answer emails. Anything and everything to seem busy, but to avoid the difficult or uncomfortable task. It may be fear of failure, fear of conflict, or fear of the unknown that stops them but most just don’t get to the biggest, most important tasks. If you make a commitment today to try this for a week and really stick to it, I think you will be amazed in seven days.
If you try it, let me know. I’d love to hear how it works out for you.
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2 comments
In theory, your perspective is pointing in the right direction. However, planning, research, and answering emails are important tasks. Gossiping on MSN and clicking away of Facebook are not activities that help you get work done for sure.
Thanks for the comment Mark. Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest that these things are unimportant - just that some people use them to avoid the bigger issue of the day. Perhaps you have a very important sales call to make that is uncomfortable for some reason - so you move a little frther down the list and busy yourself.
But you are quite right - those things are indeed important.
By the way - your site looks interesting. I do some email marketing in my other job and look forward to getting some good tips from you!
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