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Take Daily Actions Toward Your Significant Results
The more progress you make toward your significant results, the more productive you’ll feel and the happier you’re likely to be. So focus your attention on tasks that move the needle toward achieving your significant results.
When you perform these tasks, you’ll feel excited about your progress. You’ll feel productive! And there’s a good reason for your internal glee; you know these tasks are helping you to achieve your goals and design your life.
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Determine Your Significant Results
Your significant results are the plans and goals you set for yourself, with regard to things like career, health, and relationships. You believe achieving these outcomes will have a positive impact on your life. The significance typically changes with the time horizon.
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Identify Necessary but Not Significant Tasks
Once you define your significant results, you have a better chance of doing work that will move you toward what’s important in your life. However, you can’t focus only on your most important results, because there are always tasks that need to get done, even though they aren’t significant. (There...
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Learn to Control Your Attention
To help you understand how to increase your productivity, I’d like to introduce you to Allison. She manages a team of 12 civil engineers at a large company and she frequently is pulled in many directions; before we met, she used to always feel she was operating in a reactive mode.Attention manage...
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Use a Workflow Management System
A workflow management system can help you organize all the disparate parts of your work and personal life. This system is a collection of habits and behaviors. A workflow management system helped Allison learn to store, organize, prioritize, manage, and execute all of her commitments, communicati...
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Shift Tasks to Your Someday/Maybe List
If you examine your task list carefully, you’ll often find low priority items that you can shift to a ‘someday/maybe’ list. These are items you’d love to do if you had all the time in the world. But realistically, at this moment, these tasks don’t need to be done. Completing these tasks won’t mov...
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Review Your Long-Term Goals Daily
The most common reason people fail to achieve their goals is stupidly simple: They forget about them. When you lack a system to keep your goals top of mind, they’ll slowly fade away due to the busyness of life.
To avoid this, I recommend reviewing your long-term goals every single morning ...
Summary
By adopting some of these habits, you can become more productive, focused, and motivated in your daily life. Remember, success is not just about achieving your goals, but also about living a fulfilling and balanced life.
So, make sure to take care of yourself, enjoy the journey, and celebra...
Bennefits of checklists
Using checklists will improve your work and increase your productivity. No more wasted time trying to remember what to do next.
Start using checklists and you will have all these bonus side effects:
- Organization. By making sure you’re not skippin...
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