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Core tasks that you perform contain most of the value that you contribute to your business or organization. Your ability to accurately identify these there key tasks and then to focus on them most of the time is essential for you to perform at your best.
One Thing All Day Long
If you could do only one thing on this list all day long, which one tasks would contribute the greatest value to your company? Once I had identified that tasks, which was quite easy, I put a circle around that number.
You then asked, if you could do only one more thing on your list of key tasks, which would be the second activity that contributes the most value to your company?
Once I had identified the second most important task. You said that fully 90 percent of the value that you contribute to your company is contained in those, whatever they are. Everything else you do is either a support task or a complementary tasks that could probably be delegate, downsized, outsource or eliminated.
Take Immediate Action
As I looked at the these task I realized that these were the three things I did that contributed the most value to m caompnay. This was on a Friday. On Monday moring at ten O’clock, I met eith my boss an explaned what I had dicoved. I saind that I needed his help in delegating and oussourcdien all my work except thos there key tasks. I felt that if I could work on those three tasks exclusively, all day long, I could more than double my cntibution othe the company. Then I told him that if I doubled my cntibutiont. I would like to be pai twice as much.
She said, you are right. These are the three most important thngs that you do in this compay and the three thig that you do best. I will help yu delegate and outsource all these other minor taks to free you p to work full time on thise three key tasks. And if yo duble your contribution, I will pay yu twice as much.
Transform Your Life
He did, then I did then he did. He helped me delegate and assign my minor tasks so I could concentrate on my top three jobs. As a result, I doubled my output over the next thirty days and he doubled my income.
I had been working very hard for more than eight years and I doubted my income in just one month by focusing all my time and energy on my three key tasks. Not only that but instead of working ten and twelve hour days. I work from eight O’clock to five O’clock and my husband and my children. Focusing on my key tasks has transformed my life.
Perhaps the most important word in the world of word in the world of work is contribution. Hour rewards both financial and emotional will always be in direct proportion to your results to the value of your contribution. If you want to increase your rewards, you must focus on increasing the value of what you do. You must dedicate yourself to contribution more results to your company. And three key tasks always contribute the most.
The Quick List Method
Here is an exercise that we use with our coaching client very early in the process. We give them a sheet of paper and then tell them. In thirty reasons, write down your three most important goals in life right now.
We have found that when people have only thirty second to write their three most important goals, their answers are a s accurate as if they had thirty minutes or three hours. Their three most important goals pop out of their heads and onto the paper often to the surprise of the people doing the exercise.
In 80 percent or more of case, people have three goals in common, first, a financial and career goal, second, a family or personal relationship goals and third a health or fitness goals. And this is as it should be. These are the three most important areas of life. If you give yourself a grade on a scale of one to ten in each of these three area, you can immediately identify where you are doing well in life and where you need some improvement. Try it yourself and see. Give this exercise to your spouse or your children.
When you force yourself to ask and answer watch of these questions in thirty second or less, you will be amazed at the answers. Whatever your answers, they will usually be an accurate snapshot of your true situation in life at the moment. These answers will tell you what is really important to you.
While you are setting goals and priorities, getting organized, contrasting single mindedly on one task at a time and disciplining yourself to complete your most important task, you must never forget that your ultimate goal is to live a long, happy and healthy life.
Time Management Is a Means to an End
The main reason to develop time management skills is so that you can complete everything that is really important in your work and free up more and more time to do the things in your personal life that give you the greatest happiness and satisfaction.
Fully 85 percent of your happiness in life will come from happy relationships with other people, especially those closet to you as well as the members of your family. The critical determinant of the quality of your relationships is the amount of time what you spend face to face with the people you love and who love you in return.
Work All the Time Your Work
To keep your life in balance, you should resolve to work all the time you work. When you go to work, put your head down and work the whole time. Start a little earlier, say a little later and work a little harder. Do not waste time. Every minute that you spend in idle chitchat with coworkers is time taken away from the work that you must accomplish if you want to do well at your job.
Even worse, time that you waste at work often has to be taken away from your family. You have to either stay late or take work home and work in the evenings. By not working effectively and efficiently during your workday, you create unnecessary stress and deprive the members of our family of the very best person you can possible be.
Balance Is Not Optional
Once of the most famous sayings of the ancient Greeks is moderating is all thins. You need balance between your work and your personal life. You need to set priorities at work and concentrate on you most valuable tasks. At the same time, you must never lose sight of the fact that the reason for working efficiently is so that you can enjoy a higher quality of life at home with your family. With balance between work and home life, you have to do it all the time. You never reach a point where you have attained it perfectly. You have to work at it.
Your goal should be to perform at your very best at work to get the very most done and enjoy the very highest level of rewards possible or you in your career. Simultaneously, you must always remember to smell the flowers along the way. Never lose sight of the real reasons why you work as hard as you do and why you are so determined to accomplish the very most with the time that you invest. The more time you spend face to face with the people you love, the happier you will be.
