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Brian Tracy
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November 27 - December 6, 2023
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, in thought and act. ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Become action oriented. A common quality of high performers is that when they hear a good idea, they take action on it immediately. Don’t delay. Try it today!
19 Create Large Chunks of Time
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited ...
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The key to the success of this method of working in specific time segments is for you to plan your day in advance and schedule a fixed time period for a particular activity or task.
Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks.
A time planner, broken down by day, hour, and minute and organized in advance, can be one of the most powerful personal productivity tools of all. It enables you to see where you can consolidate and create blocks of time for concentrated work.
When the plane takes off, you can work nonstop for the entire flight.
Use travel and transition times, what are often called “gifts of time,” to complete small chunks of larger tasks.
20 Develop a Sense of Urgency
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL
Getting into “Flow”
When you work on your most important tasks at a high and continuous level of activity, you can actually enter into an amazing mental state called “flow.”
When you’re in the state of flow, which is the highest human state of performance and productivity, something almost miraculous happens to your mind and emotions. You feel elated and clear.
You feel happy and energized. You experience a tremendous sense of calm and increased personal effectiveness.
In the state of flow, identified and talked about over the centuries, you actually function on a higher plane of clarity, creativity, and competence. You are more sensitive and aware. Your insight and intuition guide you and direct you to do and say exactly the right things at the right time. You see the interconnectedness of people and circumstances around you. You ...
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One of the ways you can trigger this state of flow is by developin...
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Build Up a Sense of Momentum
When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of Success.
The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have. The faster you move, the more you get done and the more effective you feel. The faster you move, the more experience you get and the more you learn. The faster you move, the more competent and capable you become at your work.
A sense of urgency shifts you automatically onto the fast track in your career.
Do It Now!
21 Single Handle Every Task
Once You Get Going, Keep Going
Single handling requires that once you begin, you keep working at the task without diversion or distraction until the job is 100 percent complete.
It has been estimated that the tendency to start and stop a task—to pick it up, put it down, and come back to it—can increase the time necessary to complete the task by as much as 500 percent.
Don’t Waste Time
The more you discipline yourself to working nonstop on a single task, the more you progress along the “efficiency curve.” You get more and more high-quality work done in less and less time.
Self-Discipline Is the Key
Elbert Hubbard defined self-discipline as “the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
Starting a high-priority task and persisting with that task until it is 100 percent complete is the true test of your character, your willpower, and your resolve.
Persistence is actually self-discipline in action.
