There are no free rides, if you want to achieve something; you have to be prepared to pay for it. If you want to get more, better results, if you want to increase your productivity, there will be a price to pay.

The price you must be willing to pay is to give up some of your precious time. As Napoleon once said, “You can ask me for anything, except my time “ He knew the most precious commodity he had was his time, once that is gone, we are gone.

Regardless of how rushed you are, how behind you are, the only sustainable way out of your situation is, carve some production time out of your schedule and use that time to improve your production process for future activities.

Example, you run a trucking company, you have 10 trucks that have to be dispatched each morning, and this process takes 30 minutes per truck with your current process. You know that if you just had the time, you could work out a new process and cut this time in half. This would be a savings to your company of approximately 75 man days in the first year alone.

You have to make that investment in additional time to create the new process that will in the long run, give you 75 additional days of production in the first year alone. It's the equivalent to short term pain for long term gain. It is during these examples when the term invest your time is most accurate. How long will it take you to develop a new system to dispatch your trucks? If some one asked you, would you be willing to spend 2 or 3 days of your time, to guarantee an additional 75 days of free labor to you, would you do it?

You want to always be looking for these kind of “maximizing “situations. That is why we use the term investing your time. You want to invest your time in situations that will maximize your initial investment many times over. This is why we called our System on Productivity, the Power Productivity Maxamizer.