How do the most successful people choose to spend their time?
Successful people think differently. And it is their thinking that shapes a different set of choices they make, which ultimately yields incredibly different results from the rest of us.
The Problem:
Most of us delay the day's most important activities by consciously or unconsciously allowing our attention to shift to less important tasks. To someone struggling with priority dilution, it can sometimes feel like the harder they work, the more they fall behind. For every email they send out they get two in return. And each task they complete seems to hold behind it two more additionally that need to be done.
Their life is often characterized as a constant state of interruption. They are spread thin. Overwhelmed. Under-rested. And they feel like they are falling further and further behind.
The Solution:
Too many times we have a focus on all that we did instead of all that resulted from what we did.
Success usually is the result of focusing our talents, money, time or energy in one priority direction for a shorter period of time to create a desired result. The beauty of imbalancing your resources in one direction for a short period of time is that once you create your desired result, it is usually much easier to maintain that level of performance.
Strong focus on results that really matter is the reason why financially successful people choose to be paid on their results, rather than their time. They choose to take a chance on themselves. They believe in their own self-discipline and their own ability to produce results.
Results are what matter, and they are what you keenly drive toward. If you focus on producing results without limiting your ideas about how to create those results, you will come up with amazing solutions.
Source: Rory Vaden: Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
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