Motivation

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.

About one hundred years ago, a man named Ivy Lee went to the president of Bethlehem Steel, Charles Schwab, and made a deal with him. Lee told Schwab he could increase Schwab's productivity as well as the workload of all his managers. What's more, Lee told Schwab he could help Schwab's executives produce a significant amount more if he could just spend fifteen minutes with each of them.

The biggest obstacle to success is negative habits. The good news is that habits are learned, which means they can be unlearned. Replace negative habits with constructive ones and realize your full potential with Just Shut Up and Do It! by Brian Tracy.

As Zig Ziglar said, "The fact is that you can't hit a target that you can't see." Unless you are perfectly clear about what you want—your target, and the bull's-eye on that target—you will never be able to win championships in the great contest of life.

All of us get burned in one way or another by our bad habits. But, you can make a change in your life by identifying and defining the habit you intend to break. What are the outcomes stemming from this habit? What are the inputs leading to this habit, the triggers? We cannot solve a problem we do not understand. Habits are merely a reflection of a deeper, more powerful, subconscious thought-system. To change them, we have to learn to think differently, to see differently and to believe differently.