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Stop Learning and Start Doing |
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This may sound strange coming from me, but I must say that quitting has aided my success more than any other strategy. I actually had to go on a self-improvement fast. For a period of time, I would not allow myself to read, listen to, or watch anything new about time management until I implemented knowledge that I had already acquired.
This was incredibly hard for me. Think about it, I've been a student of self-improvement, life management, time management, accelerated learning, and virtually any other type of self-discovery that you can imagine for my entire adult life. (When my adult life started is a point of contention for some, but let's just say that it's been more than a decade.) This was as challenging as giving up coffee would be (or so I'm guessing).
I went through a week of withdrawals, but started the second week with a renewed intensity. This death of learning birthed new revelation. I discovered that the techniques I had been using were insufficient to get me to the next level. They were effective, efficient, and essential in achieving the level of success that I had acquired, but they were also holding me back. By eliminating the distraction of learning new time management techniques (if I'm honest, I wasn't learning anything new just hearing the same message from different messengers).
By looking inward, I found the problem. I wasn't looking for the right knowledge. I wasn't asking the right questions. The questions I had been asking were, "how can I do this faster?" and "how can I get more done?" The real question for me is a simple one, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Taking a page out of Covey, I started at the end of my life and imagined what I wanted to accomplish and who would be there to share it with me. You know To Live, To Love, To Learn, and To Leave a Legacy.
So, give it a try, stop reading, listening to, and watching all time management techniques for a week, and discover the question that you haven't answered. |
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5 Keys to Improving Work|Life Balance |
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Here are the five keys to improving your work-life balance: - Decide what’s really important to you. Learn how to build clarity around what you really want out of life. One of the most effective techniques in determining this is to think about what you want people to say about you at your own funeral.
- Eliminate non-essential activities. Like having weeds in your garden, unnecessary activities will keep the good things from growing.
- Make time for yourself. Do you make a mad dash for your phone when it rings? Why don’t you have the same sense of urgency for your own needs that you have for someone else’s? Give yourself permission to spend time just on you and things you enjoy. It’s okay to turn off distractions. After all, you’re worth it!
- Accept help from others. No one is able to live life effectively without depending on someone else. It’s okay if you can’t do it all on your own. If you’re not good at something or need to do something else that’s more important, allow others to pitch into help you. Then, someday when you have achieved balance, you’ll be able to do the same for someone else.
- Plan fun as diligently as you plan work activities. If you’re really going to enjoy life, you need to spend some time planning ways to enjoy it. Work gets accomplished by design, fun and leisure time can be designed, too.
Now that you have the knowledge, you should consider applying that knowledge with a tool that’s specifically designed to help you experience peace and balance in your home and in your work. We created the Dynamic Bubble Planner to manage your whole life in a way that gives you control and reduces stress.
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Ben Franklin's Faithful Plan |
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It is difficult to overstate the contribution that Benjamin Franklin made to this world, in general, and America, in particular. What we want to know is how he was able to accomplish so much. This article will show you the plan that he followed in his life to Unleash His Potential, but first, here are some highlights of his achievements: |
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Shocking Course Correction Secret Revealed |
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So, you look up one day and you don't see the sun. The world is caving in around you and you just don't know what to do. To some degree, we've all found ourselves in a hole that seems too deep to escape. The next time this happens to you, or, if you are in a situation right now, this secret will show you the way to get back on track. |
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