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by
Brian Tracy
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December 29, 2021 - January 4, 2022
“In thirty seconds, write down your three most important goals in life right now.”
What are your three most important business or career goals right now? 2. What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? 3. What are your three most important financial goals right now? 4. What are your three most important health goals right now? 5. What are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now? 6. What are your three most important social and community goals right now? 7. What are your three biggest problems or concerns in life right now?
When you force yourself to ask and answer each of these questions in thirty seconds or less, you will be amazed at the answers. Whatever your answers, they will usually be an accurate snapshot of your true situation in life at the moment.
The main reason to develop time management skills is so that you can complete everything that is really important in your work and free up more and more time to do the things in your personal life that give you the greatest happiness and satisfaction.
Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.
you should resolve to work all the time you work.
When you are fully prepared, you are like a cocked gun or an archer with an arrow pulled back taut in the bow.
Set up your work area so that it is comfortable, attractive, and conducive to working for long periods. Especially, make sure that you have a comfortable chair that supports your back and allows your feet to rest flat on the floor.
A great life or a great career is built by performing one task at a time, quickly and well, and then going on to the next task.
Upgrading your skills is one of the most important personal productivity principles of all.
Identify the most important things you do, and then make a plan to continually upgrade your skills in those areas.
Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.
First, read in your field for at least one hour every day.
Second, take every course and seminar available on the key skills that can help you.
Third, listen to audio programs in your car.
The more you learn, the more you can learn.
Between where you are today and any goal or objective that you want to accomplish, there is one major constraint that must be overcome before you can achieve that major goal.
“What is it in me that is holding me back?”
The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.
Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call these people “leaders.”
Successful people continually put the pressure on themselves to perform at high levels. Unsuccessful people have to be instructed and pressured by others.
You must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master.
After an Internet interruption, it takes about seventeen minutes for you to shift your total attention back to your task and continue working.
resolve to check your e-mail only twice a day, at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., and then turn it off again each time.
work nonstop for ninety minutes with no diversion or distraction, and then give yourself a fifteen-minute break.
start again and work another ninety minutes flat out.
after this three-hour work period, you can then reward yourself with a shot of dopamin...
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Most of the really important work you do requires large chunks of unbroken time to complete.
Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks.
Your ability to select your most important task, to begin it, and then to concentrate on it single-mindedly until it is complete is the key to high levels of performance and personal productivity.
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.”
