9 Productivity Tips

To Maximize Your Life

Respecting your work means taking the time to properly prepare for it, plan how to perform it, and finally, work out the execution of it. When we start to think that certain tasks and jobs are not worthy of this kind of attention, then we can expect our results to suffer. The Power Time Management System works through the processes that will ensure that your work gets the respect that it deserves.

I left this concept to the end because I think it sums up best the thought process that you want to have when you think about production and how to get more done. Unfortunately it seems that we are driven by the need to get more done, accomplish more, make more money and be more successful. I am not about to get into a lecture on whether this drive for more is right or wrong, what I want to touch on is how to help us accomplish not necessarily more, but enough to get us where we want to be.

For now, here is what I want to leave you with; if you respect your work, and show that respect by preparing and planning, in advance, how you are going to perform that work, then you are going to be on the right path. The key to getting as much done as we can in a reasonable amount of time is by spending the appropriate amount of time, prior to executing that task, in preparing for it. Maximum production is not maximum sweat, its maximum thinking and planning and preparing, PRIOR to the sweat part.

We run into production problems when we show what I call a lack of respect for our work, when we just assume that we can sail through something without giving any thought to how we are actually going to do it. Just winging it is not going to get it done. Taking things for granted, not thinking through the “how” part, not at least looking for details that could trip us up, and not taking into account that there might be a better way to do it, if only you were open to this option.

Showing respect means investing time, and this means being able to control your time in the end, Time Management and self-management. We will always have more things wanting our time, than we will have time to parcel out, that is a given. With this reality facing us, we are constantly going to be in a position to have to say no many more times than we say yes. Investing time in dealing with production issues will be one of the many things vying for our time. It will be up to you to have the strength to choose respecting your work, and therefore investing time in it, instead of other seemingly equally more important tasks.

One last thought on this section. Why would I pick investing my time on dealing with production issues compared to investing it somewhere else? One of the guiding principles of the Power Time Management Systems is this, we want to continually invest our time in activities that will give us the greatest return on our investment, as little as needed invested, the greatest return back to us in benefits as possible. We should always be looking for places where we can invest our time and get the greatest possible benefit back to us, these situations do not fall into our laps, we have to be on the lookout for them at all times.

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