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Effectiveness is doing the right things .
Do we do the right things on our way to being more productive ? To answer this question correctly , we need to be honest with ourselves . I mean , really honest . So , let ’ s check how truthful you are . What are your priorities ? Not what you wish were your priorities , but what actually are your priorities . A few years ago , I was in one workshop where everyone had to introduce himself / herself by describing his / her priorities . One girl stood up and started with . “ you know my priority is definitely a sport , all kinds of sport . I think being healthy is very important .” Then the facilitator
asked her : “ well , so how often do you do sport during a week ?” The girl replied : “ honestly , I am quite busy these days , so I don ’ t have time for sport . I am working on 4 projects in parallel . In the evening , when I come home , I am so destroyed that I go to sleep immediately .” We lie to ourselves . We live in hallucinations that once we have something , we will do something because only in that way might we be successful . We do it daily . We do not acknowledge the reality .
The greatest crime is the overlooking of who you really are in favor of the story of who you think you are . This preoccupation with your personal drama is the cloud that masks the Sun . -Wu Hsin
The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives . We start to be more effective when we begin to be honest with ourselves . The best way is to acknowledge the reality . And the facts are in your calendar . By reflecting on your calendar , you can identify why you are progressing slowly . For example , I know several coaches who want to be good at coaching . Still , they spend more time designing a web page and posting on social media than coaching . If I want to be a good coach , I need to spend more time coaching than doing other things . Practice makes the master . Looking better on social media will not make me a better coach . Coaching will do . To sum it up . To be successful , we should do only the activities connected to the field we want to succeed in . And we should have those activities on our calendar . If we don ’ t have them – we waste our time . The thing is that we often want to be good in many areas and not just one . That depends , of course , on our definition of success . Here are a few tips that I consider essential – to give you something tangible , not only my conceptual thoughts . Once we have the right activities in our calendar comes the second question . How can I be the most efficient in what I do ?
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