Thread by @BobKnakal

🧵Another in the series of "Thoughts for the Day":
What are you working on today?

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Our business is a busy one with many moving parts. We all have more on our plates than we can possibly accomplish, and new things pop-up all the time. #MondayMorning

2/10 How do you succeed? How do you cope? How do you achieve your goals? How do you not get caught up in the swirl of the daily whirlwind? I offer a couple of one-word answers: think, plan, discipline, focus.

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

3/10 “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker

People who are not performing up to expectations are simply doing ineffective things all day.

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

4/10 Rather than stopping and deciding what would be the right thing to do, they do the wrong things faster and faster, stressing out more and more over the "workload." There is no “workload” to worry about if you are doing the right thing. There’s only that thing. #cre #retwit

5/10 As time management specialist David Allen says of today’s business leaders: “You have more to do, than you can possibly do. You just need to feel good about your choices.”

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

6/10 Multitasking is the greatest myth in modern-day business. The thinking part of the brain itself does not multitask, and so people do not really multitask. The human system is not set up that way. The system only has one thought at a time.

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

7/10 If you think you are multitasking, it is likely you are just doing one thing poorly and then quickly moving on to another thing and doing it poorly and quickly.

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

8/10 Business efficiency expert Kerry Gleason has noted, “The constant unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy."

#cre #retwit #MondayMotivation

9/10 Successful people are able to find ways to relax into an extremely purposeful day, goal-oriented and focused on the highest priority activity. They can think clearly at any given moment. Sure, they get distracted, and sure, some people call them and problems come up. #cre

10/10 But they know what to return to because they know their purpose. Because they choose it.

You must think about what you were doing & why. Set your goals. Make your plan. Have the discipline to follow it. Honor “money time”.

Be a success. It’s in you. Know your purpose.