By Brian Tracy,
The Requirement for Every Great Achievement
Every great achievement of mankind has been preceded by a long period of hard, concentrated work until the job was done.
Single handling requires that once you begin, you keep working at the task, without diversion or distraction, until the job is 100% complete. You keep urging yourself onward by repeating the words “Back to work!” over and over whenever you are tempted to stop or do something else.
Reduce Your Time By 50%
By concentrating single mindedly on your most important task, you can reduce the time required to complete it by 50% or more. It has been estimated that the tendency to start and stop a task, to pick it up, put it down and come back to it can increase the time necessary to complete the task by as much as 500%.
Each time you return to the task, you have to familiarize yourself with where you were when you stopped and what you still have to do. You have to overcome inertia and get yourself going again. You have to develop momentum and get into a productive work rhythm.
Develop Energy and Enthusiasm
But when you prepare thoroughly and then begin, refusing to stop or turn aside until the job is done, you develop energy, enthusiasm and motivation. You get better and better and more productive. You work faster and more effectively.
Never Waste Time
The truth is that once you have decided on your number one task, anything else that you do other than that is a relative waste of time. Any other activity is just not as valuable or as important as this job, based on your own priorities.
Action Exercises
Eat That Frog! Take action! Resolve today to select the most important task or project that you could complete and then launch into it immediately. Once you start your most important task, discipline yourself to persevere without diversion or distraction until it is 100% complete. See it as a “test” to determine whether you are the kind of person who can make a decision to complete something and then carry it out. Once you begin, refuse to stop until the job is finished.
this is such a wonderful article
Anjana Bhagole
Great One..Yoga it really works
Yasmin
since i am distracted most of the time, this is a very good post for me to read!!
Joanne Dunn
Got it!!
So I am damn tempted to write on this…but gotta first finish my most imp task for the day !!!
sorry…
and
thank you
Pam Sanghi
You got it indeed Pam… but do write when you get the chance… We have all the time for your words of wisdom:)
86,400 Seconds
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. Every evening whatever part of the balance you fail to use during the day is deleted. What would you do? Draw out every penny and use it well, of course!!! Each of us has such a bank – Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Invest the day’s deposits well, or the loss is yours. How could you bring the most contentment, happiness and benefit to yourself and others? The clock is running.
Best regards,
Kavita
exxxxxcellent sanjib, i usually get distracted n loose interest in the work. yoga brings drastic change in once life, i’m one of them. liked ur blog very inspiring.kavita has quoted a good eg. for ur article. thanx a lot…
very relevant and to the point for one to stay focussed…I am inspired…thx
sanjib..its so awesome after my yoga couses and regular practices , it is always this moment what counts more important than..past and future.
nice post!
hi-i do not know much but time management and set up and plan n focus according to priority n life will help us–not much about yoga—-
Very well conveyed…thx!!!
Thanx Sanjib…nice post once again…could you tell me more about the original author, Tracy Brian please.. thanx
Hi Senthil…yah Brian Tracy is one of the most famous and most succesful business and life coaches in America….he coaches the top executives at fortune 500 companies and is a world renowened speaker at so many events….he is truly inspirational and speaks a lot about the infinite powers of consciousness….I will put more of his stuff on the site:)
Thank you Sanjib!
Great article!!
You know what also works
When you start in to morning write down al the things your planning to do.
Than give all the activity’s a number till 3
So you know witch activity has more priority..
Bye,
Sheetal Lachminarainsingh
…this question always comes in mind..that how in d same 24 hr duration time..some ppl manage to do so much …n others cant…specially my kids often struggle with this question…so i think i try to persuade them to read ur article..may b they understand brian’s theory n can do better…Thanks Sanjeeb for wonderful knowledge..
i never like to … long books but the small articles on diferent topics are easy to read and understand and you have already summarise most of the useful things in ur blogs…wud definitely try to read each of them…regards…4m…Rekha…
Thank you Sanjib!