A suggested actionfilled daily work schedule.
Start time: 9 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
Maximum performance may require additional hours, some evenings and weekends. Prolonged physical and mental effort requires breaks for physical and psychological sustainability. And one should take occasional breaks away from all the everyday stresses. Daily
walks in the sunshine will work wonders for energy, focus, and stamina. Walk a dog or call a friend while“ frolicking in the“ forest.”
Many believe that input of effort and output of results create equal corresponding or equal results. In other words, input and output correspond. The common assumption by many is to expect the same results from each hour of active work. Suppose you are an hourly wage earner at a fastfood establishment. That’ s how it works, but technology has changed that. But that is not how success works in most profitmaking enterprises. Input and output rarely correspond. The results created from efforts may be leveraged by gaining additional knowledge and proper technical tools so that creation and production are geometrically higher. Identify those tools.
Wow, this worked— I bet I can do better! We cannot motivate individuals to achieve. They must develop and internalize the desire and motivation on their own. Sometimes, learning to improve becomes a passion through modified and leveraging processes. Repeated successes always bring confidence.
Thousands of brilliant individuals could achieve more if motivated and their time management and daily action habits changed.
The success of one’ s action plan varies depending on one’ s circumstances and stated goals. The preacher, teacher, psychologist, company manager, supervisor, clerk, bookkeeper, accountant, a prisoner in a confined environment, or salesperson relying on commissions have different success priorities. What is most valuable in a time segment for these folks will differ. Each person should construct a platform and assess each minute’ s importance, time spent, and results received.
Historical references in explaining why focusing on the most productive actions multiplies the results:
Economists and philosophers have written about the concept known as the 80 / 20 rule for centuries.
• JeanBaptiste Say( 17671832) was a French economist who first coined the word entrepreneur.
“ The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of the lower area and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”
• In 1896, an Italian economist and sociologist, Vilfredo Pareto, developed the 80 / 20 rule.
“ In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction of the number of elements always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.”“ The Pareto Principle” was born.
• In 1949, George Zipf, a Philosophy professor at Harvard University, stated:
“ The input of resources( people, goods, time, and skills) tends to arrange themselves so that a small portion of resources( 20 % to 30 %) account for a larger corresponding output( 70 % to 80 %) of results.”
• In 1951, Joseph Moses Juran, a management consultant and significant contributor to the quality control revolution, wrote the“ Quality Control Handbook.” He renamed the“ Pareto Principle,”“ Rule of the Vital Few” and the“ Rule of the Trivial Many.”
• In 1957, C. Northcote Parkinson wrote two books,“ Parkinson’ s Law” and“ The Law and the Profits.” His first law was:
“ Work will expand to fill the time available for its completion.”
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