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How to set achievable goals
How to manage time for personal and professional life
How to avoid distractions
Important vs. urgent tasks
- Important tasks are things that contribute to your long-term mission, values, and goals.
- Urgent tasks are tasks that have to be dealt with immediately: phone calls, urgent deadlines, and situations where you have to respond quickly.
Sometimes important tasks stare you right in the face, but you neglect them and respond to urgent but unimportant things.
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"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage pleasantly, smilingly, and non-apologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside."
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Don't take on too much
If you get excited and take on too much, you'll be spending your energy all over the place.
Spend most of your time on the right things and the rest takes care of itself. It's not enough to just 'work hard'.
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Don't be available all the time
Time, not money, is your most valuable asset. Invest your asset:
- Allocate time to each task you need to get done every day.
- Each task of the day should be attainable, realistic, and time-bound. And it should advance your goals for the day, week or month.
- Don...
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Being super connected
Modern technology has evolved to exploit our urgency addiction. You can be distracted simply by hearing or feeling your phone vibrate, even if you don't pick it up.
- Try putting your phone out of sight (and touch) for uninterrupted productivity.
- Turn off all your notifica...
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Avoiding Urgent Tasks
Urgent tasks are the ones that are not adding any value but come up to be done at that moment. The right approach is to avoid the urgent and focus on the important.
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