Level Up Your Productivity By Breaking Free From Your Routine
SQI Security Entrepreneur Series 23
Pushing Boundaries-Tips For Breaking Free
I’ve got some bad news for you: the world doesn’t care about your plans. Seriously. You may have all sorts of ideas, you may be excited about your grand visions, but let me tell you, nothing will come of any of these unless and until you take action.
You have to understand that the world only cares about one thing and one thing alone: results. The world is always asking: Can you get things done? Can you do the big things in your life that truly matter? Everything else doesn’t matter.
Sadly, most people fail to take action on the big things… because they are having a tough time with the small stuff. As you probably have already heard, life is what happens when you have other plans. Don’t be surprised if you constantly put your big dreams and visions on the back burner. Chances are, if you’re like most people, you end up wasting a tremendous amount of your personal focus on the penny ante stuff right in front of you. You’re sweating over the small stuff. But each and every day that passes is a missed opportunity to do the things that truly matter in your life. If you’re like most people, you can’t even manage to take care of these small things so you can free up enough time for the things that truly matter…
This is why you struggle. Your big dreams remain as distant as ever because you’re just so caught up with the small stuff in the here and now. If you are sick and tired of living far below your fullest potential, listen up.
This book is the answer to your problems. This book will teach you to become a more effective person. Personal effectiveness means building a system that helps you do more stuff, in less time, and at higher levels of quality. Do this right and you will be able to free up enough time and motivation for the big projects that will move your life forward.
DECIDE TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE NOW
A lot of people downplay the importance of making decisions. In fact, a lot of us think that decisions are automatic. We only need to see where we are and the benefits that we stand to gain and the decision will flow naturally. This is why most people assume that they have decided to change when they go on a diet or they apply for a new job or they apply for a promotion. It is no surprise that most of these people fail.
Why? They completely assume one of the most powerful steps to personal success and effectiveness: decision. You have to be as conscious as possible about your choice. Your power of choice is one of the most important personal powers you have. Don’t assume that it is always in play. Don’t assume that you have exercised it. You have to be as conscious as you can be about your choice of getting things done now. Two things are happening here. You are choosing to do things and you’re choosing to do them now. These must now be together.
WHAT NEEDS TO GET DONE
First, you’re going to decide that you will step up the quantity of your output. I don’t care whether you are a sales rep, a lawyer, a doctor, a medical professional, a janitor, or a mall owner or anything else, you have to do more. You have to produce more output. You have to see a lot more of your effort turned into actual units of results. It could be sales, website views, website visitors, or it could be mall visitors. It doesn’t matter. You have to produce results that are quantifiable.
YOU HAVE TO DECIDE TO BOOST QUALITY
A lot of people are under the impression that just because they’re able to crank up the amount of output they produce on a day to day basis that they are doing well. I wish it were that simple. Last time I checked, if you produce substandard work, it doesn’t really matter whether you multiply it a million times-it will still be substandard work. That kind of work is still not going to get you promoted or earn you a raise. Instead, you’re just producing more garbage. A key part of personal effectiveness involves stepping up the quality of your output.
EVERYTHING MUST RELATE TO THE BIG GOALS OF YOUR LIFE
Becoming a more effective person means being a more purposeful person. You’re not just typing out numbers into a computer because you have some sort of quota to ll. You’re not just seeing patients at a hospital because you can’t wait until you hit the golf links. If that’s your mindset, you are just going through the motions.
You’re not really allowing yourself to become the most effective person you could be because there’s no reason for you to pursue that goal. You have to be purpose driven. What’s the point of cranking out sales when it doesn’t really lead to anything meaningful in your life? What’s the point in studying tons of books when it doesn’t really lead to a big goal in your life? Please understand that figuring out what to do and how to do them is not as important as understanding why you’re doing them in the first place.
You have to be motivated by the “why” because the sense of purpose, urgency and focus that you get will give you the power and the immediacy you need to not only crank up quantity and quality, but also to be able to withstand all sorts of negativity, discouragement and setbacks. Believe me, there will be setbacks. Ineffective people set themselves up in such a way that when the challenge arises, they fold like a wet rag. They say to themselves,”Well, maybe my best isn’t good enough. Maybe I wasn’t.
SET A TIMELINE TO START ACTING MORE INTENTIONALLY
Now, it’s great that at this point you understand why you need to decide to be more effective. But the problem is, deciding to be effective and understanding the reasons why you should become so are not going to help you all that much. At this point, all these insights just resonate on an intellectual level.
Until and unless you feel a sense of urgency, this is just going to be theory to you. All these insights are not going to push your life forward. It’s kind of like going to some sort of seminar where you pick up very interesting information, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really move your life forward.
It doesn’t really change how you look at yourself as well as your place in your life. Unfortunately, unless the things that we learn with our minds doesn’t sink to the level of our hearts, nothing is going to change. Seriously. This is why you need to set a timeline.
THE BOTTOM LINE? The bottom line is simple: effectiveness starts with scheduling. When you schedule, it highlights the fact that you have decided to start taking action. Pick a schedule.
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