This article is written and owned by Bryan Beckstead
Mistake Number 1
Not showing respect for the task you are about to do. This sounds funny but I have been looking for a way to explain this concept and I just found it. I realize that tasks, jobs and activities are inanimate objects and we are not suppose to show respect to inanimate objects but it makes perfect sense in my mind. It also perfectly describes what I’m trying to convey. Not showing respect to a job you are about to do is not properly preparing yourself or your people to do it. That to me is the heart and soul of getting the most out of the time you invest.
It goes hand in hand with the thought process that if something is worth doing, its worth doing right. You do a job right by properly preparing yourself, by doing your home work and doing everything you can, in advance, to ensure you have given yourself the maximum opportunity to succeed. How many times have you started a job only to have to stop because you didn’t have the proper tools on hand, supplies ran out before you were finished or materials were not there when they were needed? These are all the result of taking a task for granted, not doing your homework and yes, showing a lack of respect for the task at hand.
Mistake Number 2
Not Learning from your History. If you fail to learn from history, you are forced to repeat it. That is like wasting the same time and energy, twice. The first time is when you did something wrong, perhaps attempting a shipment on Monday, forgetting to co-ordinate the pick-up with the driver. You lost time and had to wait for the truck to arrive before you could load up. The same scenario happened on Wednesday, did not learn from your mistake and the same situation occurred, again. Mistakes are ways we learn to do things properly for the next time. When we make them repeatedly, there is a serious flaw in how we operate. This leads me to our third mistake, one that is the hardest to get people to accept but the one that has the farthest-reaching positive impact on their performance.
Mistake Number 3
Operating From the Seat Of our Pants. “He didn’t plan to fail, he just failed to plan”. After you have seen this work itself out over and over again, it’s hard to watch people get destroyed by this because it is so avoidable. I call it the pillar to post syndrome. People running from here to there, back and forth, around and around, always moving but not getting much accomplished. Sound familiar? At some point you have to come to a halt and realize that the way you are doing things is not working out for you and something is going to have to change. That change is you starting to take what you do seriously enough to start to do things in an organized fashion. That means stop doing things from the seat of your pants and start doing them with a view to the future.
These three mistakes all have something in common with each other; they all stem from a lack of focus. When you start to focus on the issues that directly affect your performance, you will find that your results will start to reflect this new found direction. Nothing will have a greater impact on your performance than investing the proper time that is required to get the results you truly deserve.
Bryan Beckstead is the creator and developer of the Power Time System and the Power Productivity Maximizer and has been involved in the Self Improvement and Self Empowerment industries for almost 35 years. If you are really serious about improving your quality of life, visit him at www.powertimesystem.com
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