Do You Ever Waste Time? Yeah, I think we all do; but time is the great leveler. It’s the difference between the billionaire, and someone making a small fraction of what the billionaire is making.
It’s how we use our time, it’s about behavioral economics. Do we always keep ourselves in the highest and best use of our time? It’s easy for us to get caught up in the little things.
Here is one of the best ways to get yourself much more proactive in being productive to the few right things. Every week, at the end of the week, make a list for the following week of all the key, most important things to do. Not the to-do list, that’s different, you can keep that someplace else.
What’s the highest and best use of your time? and then do the A1, and then do the A2, prioritize yourself and tell yourself that “Based on priority is how I am going to spend my time.”
Be the person who always keeps yourself in your highest and best use of time, and I promise you — you will double, triple, quadruple your performance quickly compared to the people who are basically reacting to the fire in front of them at that moment.
Be the person that’s focused on the few right things.
My biggest challenge in not wasting time is this:
I am fairly busy and do not have a lot of Chit chat time, which occurs a lot in office settings. I am polite, courteous and respectful but do not spend a lot of time “socializing” with other staff. I am well liked.
Thoughts?