03/12/2019
[ Success Is Predictable ]
The need to be selective
For this reason, and perhaps more than ever before, your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop..
Start with the hardest and important task
If the first thing you do each morning is begin with the hardest task, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your task is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.
Take action immediately
Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single minded until those tasks are complete. In our world, and especially in our business world, you are paid and promoted for getting specific, measurable results. You are paid for making a valuable contribution and especially, for making the most important contribution that is expected of you.
Develop the habits of success
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
Develop a positive addiction
Here is one of the most important of the so-called “secrets of success.” It is that you can actually develop a "positive addiction" to endorphins and to the feeling of enhanced clarity, confidence and competence that they trigger. When you develop this “addiction,” you will, at an unconscious level, begin to organize your life in such a way that you are continually starting and completing ever more important tasks and projects. You actually become addicted, in a very positive sense, to success and contribution.
No short cuts
Practice is the key to mastering any skill. Fortunately, your mind is like a muscle. It grows stronger and more capable with use. With practice, you can learn any behaviour or develop any habit that you consider either desirable or necessary.
The three D’s of new habit formation
You need three key qualities to develop the habits of focus and concentration. They are all learnable. They are decision, discipline, and determination. First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. Second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic. And third, back
everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality.
Visualize yourself as you want to be
There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be. It consists of your thinking continually about the rewards and benefits of being an action oriented, fast moving, and focused person. See yourself as the kind of person who gets important jobs done quickly and well on a consistent basis. Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behaviour. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future.
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