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Separate the Relevant from the Irrelevant, Develop an Excellent Reputation…
Separate the Relevant from the Irrelevant
Thirty-seven percent of work time is wasted on idle conversation on personal subjects with coworkers, conversations that have nothing whatsoever to do with the job at hand.
when people who waste a lot of time actually settle down and get to work, they spend too much time on low-value tasks and activities
they get very little done, which then causes them to feel that they are under continual pressure to get caught up.
when you waste time at work, your work does not go away. It continually builds, like an avalanche overhang. Deadlines come closer and closer
Develop an Excellent Reputation
There is nothing that will bring you more quickly to the attention of people who can help you than for you to develop a reputation for hard, disciplined work, every hour of every day.
Average employees increase their income at only about 3 percent per year, which is just about the rate of inflation or cost-of-living increases.
You don’t understand my company. There is no way that I could double my income at my current company. They simply would not pay me that amount of money
So your company is quite willing to pay some people twice as much as they pay you. They’re just not willing to pay you twice as much.
It is the individual who is not contributing enough to be worth that additional money. The responsibility is his, not the company’s.
Get on the Same Page About What Work Is Most Important
Once you have made a list of all the results you feel you have been hired to accomplish and you have determined the three most important things you do to justify your hourly rate
The very worst use of time is to do very well what need not be done at all.
No matter how well you do an unimportant task, it does not help you. Even worse, working on low-value tasks keeps you from working on the most important things you could be doing. Hard work on the wrong job can actually sabotage your career.
The happiest days you will have at work will be when you are working on those tasks that your boss considers to be most important.
Your job is first, to make yourself valuable, and then to make yourself indispensable to your company.
Work All the Time You Work
Don’t waste time. Don’t delay. Don’t chat
with coworkers or sit around drinking coffee.
Don’t read the newspaper or surf the Internet. When you come into work in the morning, put your head down, and then work all day long.
When you tell people that you are under the gun, that you have to get a task finished for your boss, they will usually leave you alone.
Keep yourself motivated and focused by talking to yourself in a positive way. Your mantra from now on should be, “Back to work! Back to work! Back to work!”
The law of three helps you prioritize
When we coach entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners, we take them through an exercise that is designed to help them double their productivity, performance, and output within twelve months—sometimes, even, within thirty days.
The Law of Three says that there are three primary things you do that contribute 90 percent or more of your value to your company or organization
They will be little things that you have often gotten into the habit of doing as a way of unconsciously avoiding the big, difficult, important tasks that can make a tremendous difference in your work and career
Who Works Hardest? The Secret Survey
Everyone knows who works less and who does
not pull his weight. Everyone knows—it’s not a secret at all.
Resolve today that you are going to develop the reputation for being the hardest-working person in your business. This will do more to help you than almost anything else.
When you are surrounded by time-wasting people and situations, it takes tremendous self-discipline to work all the time you are at work