Think On Paper

Oct 24
21:00

2002

Ed Hirsch

Ed Hirsch

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What is the most valuable use of your time,Think On Paper Articles right now?
Whatever it is, work on THAT. Your ability to discipline
yourself to work on those few tasks that can make the
greatest difference in your life is the key quality that
makes everything else possible for you.

Imagine that you are going to receive a $100,000 bonus at
the end of the month if you can work on your highest
priority items every minute of every day. How would you
change your behavior and what would you do differently?

You must continually ask yourself, "What activities in my
life can I cut back on, delegate, or discontinue to free up
more time for my most important activities?"

Your most valuable asset in life is your earning ability.
Your ability to work, to produce, to earn money in our
competitive economy by applying your brain and ability to
your world enables you to generate tens of thousands of
dollars each year.

If you want to increase your standard of living, you must
increase your earning ability through a systematic and
deliberate process of learning and practicing new skills and
abilities.

What will you absolutely, positively have to be excellent at
doing three to five years from now for you to continue
enjoying your current or an even higher standard of living?

Regular planning assures that you spend more time on
activities of higher value. This increases your
effectiveness and your efficiency in everything you do.
Perhaps the most important rule of all is for you to
"Think on paper!"

Impose a sense of order on your life by making a detailed
list of every single thing you have to do for the
foreseeable future.

Analyze your list carefully and set clear priorities on the
items before you begin. Never give in to the temptation to
clear up small things first.

Discipline yourself to work only on those activities that
have the most significant impact and influence on your life.
Get them done quickly and well. Once you develop this habit
of planning and prioritizing, your stress level will
decline, your productivity will increase, and your career
will take off.

"I have found that one of the most effective means of
helping people achieve a *successful* personality is to...
give them a graphic picture of what the successful
personality looks like." --Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics
(1960).

As you continue to "Think on paper", you increase the
ability to *see yourself* in the new improved way. It is
simply a re-enforcement to strengthen whatever
areas of your life you want to get better at.

Most people want to have more abundance in family time,
financial security, spiritual peace and a general freedom to
just do what comes most natural.

Your journey to succeed is hard work and fruitful work for
sure.

Don't sell yourself short and limit your true potential.

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not
fail?" -- Dr. Robert Schuller

Well ... here is your chance to convert all this *stuff*
into reality.

Start Thinking on Paper!

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