FALL FORWARD!
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INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."
~ Unattributed
FALL FORWARD!
With the arrival of the fall season, life’s pace picks up a bit. With the dog days of summer behind us, we look toward the seasonal shifts in business and the approaching holidays. Our “To Do” lists start to get longer, and our enthusiasm sometimes wanes.
So as the days get shorter, how do we increase our productivity? The short answer is “a little bit at a time.” Specifically, just fifteen minutes at a time, according to REALTOR Magazine “Sales Coach” John D. Mayfield.
The argument is simple: you get more done by organizing your day into small chunks of time, instead of devoting three hour blocks to a project. It is only when we have fallen too far behind that we force ourselves to spend so much time and effort on an unfinished task. Then we burn out and cannot seem to get anything done at all.
Take something as routine and unexciting as catching up on phone calls or email messages. Put it off all week, and suddenly you have got thirty calls to return and ninety messages in your Inbox. But just fifteen minutes a day spent on each of these two tasks adds up to two and half hours of quality work during the week. Extend that concept to other things like exercise and reading, both of which improve the rest of your day and your labor.
Devoting fifteen minutes is not difficult, and once you have begun, you might find yourself working even longer. Maybe you will feel that the project at hand is not so overwhelming after all, and once it is behind you, you will feel renewed enthusiasm for the next item on the “To Do” list.
Ultimately, just remember that fifteen minutes a day is better than nothing at all, and in one hour you can begin to attack up to four different responsibilities. John Mayfield reminds us of the old Chinese proverb: “A minute of time is an inch of gold.” Invest just a few minutes and discover your reward!
