We talked about the following in our AM talk at 3ffb:
1. Daily Bread - "The mind is formed by what it takes in" by Will Durant
While the Bible says that we should be concerned with what comes out of our mouth rather than what we put in, today's Daily Bread tells us that we should be concerned by inputs to our mind, eyes, ears and even mouth. The food we eat sticks around for a while in our body, and if we do not exercise they stay put in our hips, butts, and waist. It takes about 1 hour exercise to remove 500 calories that represent just one pound.
Thus early in the morning, we fill our mind and soul with first ray of sunshine, great music and even Gregorian Chants. They are supposed to stimulate enthusiasm and great brain functioning, remove cobwebs in our mind, makes our days positive and enjoyable.
2. Time management: from the memo sent by this office dated January 18, 2007
1. Hasten the pace
2. Do It Now (not later, not tomorrow) DIN
3. Decision making and prioritization from the book Turbo Coach by Brian Tracy (AMACOM: 2005 pp 67 - 69
1. Put more time into high value activities that are of high value, and less into low value;
2. Begin doing new highly productive activities and stop doing low or no value activities
3. Put as much time into activities that are important and or urgent.
THE ABOVE ARE YOUR PRIORITIES. HIgh value activities are those activities that create wealth and cash flow for you and your company: thus they are revenue and cash flow making activities and therefore they involve:
SALES
COLLECTION
ACTIVITIES THAT BEAUTIFY THE PARK
GREAT CS AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
COST REDUCTION
EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT
in that order.
Use the 20 - 80 rule of the Pareto Principle
1. Identify the 20% of your tasks that contribute to 80% of the output or results (the precious few)
2. Identify activities that are 80% that contribute only 20% of the results (the important many)
3. Devote more time to the 20% that are precious few
4. Delegate, automate or outsource the important many.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act by a habit by Aristotle."
Jorge U. Saguinsin
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