"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts."
- Ted W. Engstrom
It is now almost 11am on Monday – what have you accomplished? Be HONEST with yourself. Outside of getting coffee, attending some pointless meeting and sending a few emails… what have you REALLY accomplished!?
By the time lunch comes around on Monday, you have CONSUMED one-tenth (1/10) of your "average" week. Many will make it up by staying late of working through lunch later in the week.
What if you were to wake up one hour EARLIER on Monday, get coffee on the way in, never open email (since it is likely unimportant since it was sent between when you left Friday and now), and SKIP that useless meeting? What if, instead, you got right to what you need to do!?
2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
The TRUTH of the matter is, if you DO NOT know what to do on Monday morning the second you walk in; then you wasted your Friday afternoon.
If you need to have a meeting on Monday at 8am to report what you did last week, then you are not keeping good enough records.
If you need to sit with your manager to talk about where you need "help;" then SHAME on you for not being more open and asking for it when you need it – IMMEDIATELY!
We all want to WORK LESS and MAKE MORE. The only way to do so is to become more EFFICIENT and EFFECTIVE. You must have your TOP PRIORITIES planned the day prior. You need your REPORTING to be easy and rhythmic. You MUST understand what your REAL JOB is (that being what you truly CONTRIBUTE).
Focus on LESS. Do MORE of it. Complete it FASTER. ELIMINATE wasted meetings. It is 11am, you should be one-eighth (1/8) complete for your week (so you can take of FRIDAY)!!
Cheers,
Zach
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