This book wasn’t originally on my reading list… I was marketed to, successfully, again. I seem to see a trend here. As cheap as I am cutting and streamlining my
living expenses… I am apparently very
trigger happy when it comes to buying books.
Especially when they are on discounts.
Amazon got to me somehow. Anyway, this is basically a compilation of famous
people on how they manage their day to day.
Different people, few different approaches. The whole plan boils down to something like
this:
1.
Ask yourself very hard what matters
to you long term. What do you really,
really, really want. Or is there
something you really want?
2.
Build habits and actions to get to
that goal
3.
Use tools and technology to help you
solidify your habits
4.
Let go of ego and perfectionist
-> execute, execute, execute
“To a perfectionist, settling seems worse than not completing the piece, which is why perfectionists often produce very little.”
“To a perfectionist, settling seems worse than not completing the piece, which is why perfectionists often produce very little.”
The whole thing can really be summarized in two
words: Prioritize. Execute.
In the new world, “execution” seems to be so
huge a word. We have to execute on a
global strategy to penetrate the x market.
Or we have to execute on this new bs platform system implementation… “Execute” becomes so grand and even
demanding. A strategy seems to fail at execution if any small part along the grand plan didn't go as planned. But to get shit done, that’s
simply not the case. Execute on the small tasks, every day,
get it done with. A small daily task, if it be
really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules - Anthony
Trollope
I have an annual guideline of things I want to
accomplish. For daily execution, I prioritize
5 things I will get done tomorrow, every night.
And I do them. I don’t think
about it, I don’t debate about it, I don’t wonder why I put it there… I put in thought the night before to put the
items on the list. If it’s on the list,
then I do it. These things by themselves
probably don’t mean a whole lot and won’t change the world tomorrow, or the
week after. But looking back every 3
months, it has changed my world.
Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to
work – Chuck Close
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