These basic but highly effective techniques-known to successful people everywhere- can help you organize your days and get things done.
STEP ONE: CULTIVATE ENERGY
The first rule of success is to hace energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to focus it. But first, you have to have it – and a surprising number of people don’t.
ENERGY is an active, positive quality, a desire to get things done and done correctly, to move from one point to another, to rise to a specific goal, to advance to a new position, to accomplish a given job. Some people are born with it; they put their hearts and souls into everything they do, and they invariably succeed. Others work hard enough when they want to or have to, but it’s uphill all the way.
The best way to develop energy is this: Split up your day into the smallest possible segments of time. Treat each segment as independent and worthwhile in itself. Once you’ve broken your work down into components, you can launch yourself into one thing, get it done, then go on the next task. This will give you a change of pace and a renewed sense of accomplishments.
For years I began workdays in a state of anxiety and rage. The desk was already a sea of messages and mail when I arrived. Phones were ringing, and people were lined up to see me. By 11 a.m. I was frazzled and overwrought, resentful that I haf worked two hours without having completed on single task.
Finally, I decided it was important to begin the day by accomplishing something, however trivial it might be. I decided yo spend the first hour answering mail. I would take no telephone calls, see no one. I treated the mail as separate block of work, important but finite. When I had read it, answered it, taken the necessary action where action was called for and got rid of it all, I had a cup of coffee- my “reward” fpr a task completed – and took a walk around the office.
It wasn’t long before I began to look forward to my first hour; it gave me a sense of achievement and purpose. I could apply my energy to a limited task, instead of letting it dissipate early in the day by not being focused on anything.
Watch out for the next step…
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