Obey the Law of Forced Efficiency

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Obey the Law of Forced Efficiency

• Concentration, ..means the ability to focus
  the mind on one single solitary thing. Komar
• Law of forced efficiency There is never enough
  time to do everything, but there is always enough
  time to do the most important thing.
• Rule 1 There will never be enough time to do
  everything you have to do.
• Rule 2 You will never get caught up
• Rule 3 People think they work better under
  pressure of deadlines. Research shows they are
  wrong
• Rule 4 People suffer greater stress, make more
  mistakes, and have to redo more tasks when under
  deadline pressure
• Three Questions to help keep you focused on
  getting your most important tasks completed on
  schedule

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• Question 1 What are my highest value activities?
  Said another way, what activity makes the
  greatest contribution to You, Inc?
• You must think this through for yourself
• You must be crystal clear about your highest
  value activities before you begin work
• What do you consider your highest value
  activities?

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• Question 2 What Can I, and only I do that, if
  done well, will make a real difference in my
  business?
• One of the best of all questions for achieving
  personal effectiveness.
• This refers to something that only you can do. If
  you dont do it, it wont be done by anyone else.
  
• If you do it well it can make a real difference
  in your life

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• Question 3 What is the most valuable use of my
  time right now?
• This is the core question of time
  management.
• Asking it is the key to overcoming
  procrastination and becoming highly a effective
  and productive person
• Every hour of every day, there is an answer to
  this question
• Your job is to ask yourself the question, over
  and over again, and to always be working on the
  answer to it, whatever it is.
• The things that matter most must never be at the
  mercy of the things that matter least Goethe