This topic is closely related to Defend Your Turf so I included it here. The concept of Driving Your Own Agenda has evolved over the years. You work on certain principles and then you want to improve on the original concept. Driving Your Own Agenda morphed out of the concept that you want to go to work each day with your own set of Priorities and spend your day on these Priorities.

That is still a main part of the Power Time System but over time, the concept and image of Driving Your Own Agenda emerged. If it sounds eerily similar to a car commercial, I'm guilty, you are right. It just seemed so right. It seemed so right because it grasped the concept that if you want to succeed, you have to be the person in control; you have to be the driver, not the passenger.

Not only do you have to have the right idea, you have to be able to pass that idea on to the next person. Driving Your Own Agenda is something everyone can visualize; we all know what it means to be the driver compared to the passenger. The driver is the person in charge; the passenger is just along for the ride. When it comes to your life, reaching your goals, who do you want to be, the driver or the passenger?

Another aspect of this example is the ownership factor. I want people who are working with us to have an agenda, and then take ownership of their agenda, and then finally push that agenda throughout the day. Taking ownership of your agenda is also taking ownership of your own time. When you get to this point when you are aggressively looking at your time and how it will be used, you are well on your way to putting yourself in the drivers seat and that is putting yourself in a position to become successful.