Maybe I am just getting old and starting to get all nostalgic or something. I have been thinking a great deal about what I am spending my time doing, and how precious my time actually is to me. I have started to cut things out of my life that just don’t make a difference for me, my family, or my customers, and I have also started to be less tolerant of being hassled and dealing with ‘crap’, if you know what I mean. I approach my days differently now and I am starting to waste less time.<\/p>\n
So I wanted to share with you what I have done.<\/p>\n
I don’t keep stuff anymore.<\/strong> For years I have been the worst at keeping things… emails, papers, bits of materials scattered all over my garage… because you never know “when you might need it”. I don’t do that anymore. It is liberating actually. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not throwing out my kid’s baby pictures, but I think you get the point.<\/p>\n I make decisions quicker.<\/strong> It’s not that I rush into things and make decisions without thinking them through. I am smart about things. But I don’t waste time putting off the decision until tomorrow just to see if I change my mind. I make the decision and I move on.<\/p>\n I tackle the biggest thing first thing in the morning.<\/strong> After I read my news and drink my coffee, of course. But I find that tackling the biggest thing you have on your plate first thing makes the day go much, much better. It’s all downhill from there. If I put off the big thing till the end of the day, I usually don’t leave myself time to finish it, so it ends up on my agenda the next day. I think this is how procrastinators get in trouble.<\/p>\n I made a decision that every night ‘before my head hits the pillow’ I will accomplish something. I will have something marked off my ‘list’ and my tomorrow will be better because of the things that I did today. So my questions to you are… <\/p>\n Did you do everything today that you needed to do? Did you do everything today that you wanted to do? If not, before your head hits the pillow I hope that you too can say that you at least accomplished something today and your list tomorrow will be just a little shorter.
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