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Cut down on television watching and Internet surfing and instead spend the time with your family, read, exercise, or do something else that enhances the quality of your life.
Look at your work activities and identify the tasks that you could delegate or eliminate to free up more time for the work that really counts.
1. Practice “zero-based thinking” in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, “If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?”
2. Examine each of your personal and work activities and evaluate it based on your current situation. Select at least one activity to abandon immediately or at least deliberately put off until your more important goals have been achieved.
The ABCDE Method is a powerful priority setting technique that you can use every single day.
You start with a list of everything you have to do for the coming day. Think on paper. You then place an A, B, C, D, or E next to each item
These items are the frogs of your life. If you have more than one A task, you prioritize these tasks by writing “A-1,” “A-2,” “A-3,” and so on in front of each item. Your A-1 task is your biggest, ugliest frog of all.
A “B” item is defined as a task that you should do. But it has only mild consequences.
Returning an unimportant telephone message or reviewing your e-mail would be a B task.
The rule is that you should never do a B task when an A task is left undone.
You should never be distracted by a tadpole when a big frog is sitting the...
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A “C” task is defined as something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences at all, whether you do it or not. C tasks include phoning a fr...
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These sorts of activities have no effect at all on your work life. A “D” task is defined as something you...
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An “E” task is defined as something that you can eliminate altogether, and it won’t make any real difference.
The key to making this ABCDE Method work is for you to now discipline yourself to start immediately on your A-1 task and then stay at it until it is complete.
Eat the whole frog and don’t stop until it’s finished completely.
Your ability to think through and analyze your work list and determine your A-1 task is the springboard to higher levels of accomplishment
and greater self-esteem, self-respect, and ...
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