3 Things That I Learned This Week
Happy Sunday!
Each and every Sunday I spend time reflecting on my week and planning for the week ahead.
So I wanted to share some of my top wins, lessons, issues & thoughts from this past week.
- Improving 1% Daily
To lose patience is to lose the battle — Mahatma Gandhi
A lack of patience screws with your success. The progress of 1% better is slow. It took me 5 years to get momentum from this 1% mindset.
Most people can’t last. They want it now! now! now! so they can take a picture of success and put it on Instagram.
It takes everything you’ve got to show up every day for 5 years and be 1% better each time. When you do, though, you stack hidden progress you can’t see. That’s right. Not all progress is measurable. But it WILL happen
2. Life is better when you ‘subtract’ rather than ‘add.’
Do you review your day daily? You will find only 20% of the people, events, or jobs in your life are likely to be the source of 80% of the issues you face in life.
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After you’ve determined the 20%, you have three options:
- It should be changed
- It should be left alone
- Accept it and move on
Most of my enjoyment has come from either adjusting or leaving situations that I didn’t appreciate. A circumstance that does not match my principles is infrequent for me to accept.
Examine the list of events that occurred in your life. I’m sure things you could eliminate out of your life would make it 80 percent better in the long run.
3. Planning VS. Actual
When organizing a project plan and timeline, one of the ways a project manager monitors schedule management is by tracking “planned versus actual”. This refers to the amount of time we planned for a specific task or project phase, and the actual time it took to complete that task or project phase.
This technique can also be applied to your productivity philosophy. This will involve using some type of time tracking application, such as Harvest or Toggl, but it will allow you to see how much time you plan on working on a project or working on an action related to one of your goals, and how much time you actually spend on it. Then, address the mismatch between your priorities, goals, and the time you actually spend on them.
Have a great rest of your Sunday!
Talk Soon,
Dan
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