Quick Tip: The Power of 3 (Video)
09.22.09
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Quick Tip #7 – The Power of 3 and Getting Things Done
You can learn all of the marketing information in the world, and if you can’t get it done, it’s really kind of useless.
The tip today is courtesy of James Malinchak. And it’s a very simple concept, but of course, most of the best things really are very simple. This is what he does, and I’m going to share it with you today:
Every day, when you wake up in the morning, instead of having this big long list of all the things you have to get done and maybe only getting some of them done, some halfway done, and finishing your day saying, “Wow! I was really busy today, and I don’t feel like I got anything done!”
(You ever feel that way?)
Don’t do that anymore! Instead, when you get up in the morning, write down 3 things that you want to get done during that day and get those 3 things done! Now when you’re done with those 3 things, do whatever you want! I mean, you may have more work to do, but get those 3 things done.
Do you realize, that if you write down 3 activities that must be done every day and if you take off two weeks of vacation every year…you will have accomplished over 750 tasks in your business?!! Now, if that doesn’t get a whole heck of a lot of books sold, or a whole lot of speaking engagements booked, I don’t know how to help you out!
So, please, do this, write the 3 things down, get those things done. Because, it doesn’t matter what you learn, if you’re not making it happen.
This has been Deidre Hughey with your BUZZ Bit and a Bagel from The BUZZ Builder!
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Have a great week!
Take care.
Deidre Hughey
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This is a wonderful idea. I have heard similar ones before. The one “caution” is that the items on that list be tasks and not projects. A task is something that is one step and takes less than a day. A project is multiple steps and takes more than one day. Therefore, one task on that “list of three” could be to draft one chapter of a new book. However, if you put “write a book” as one of your 3, then you’ll be sorely disappointed at the end of the day because writing a book is a project, not a task.
Great point! Yes, the list should certainly be “tasks” and not “projects”. Thank you so much for stopping by and adding the clarification. Have a great week!