Summary: <br> How to Get Things Done<br> <br> If you search the phrase "how to get things done" you will be met with 406,000,000 results (depending on your search engine of course!). In those results are all sorts of methods, programs, hacks, apps and systems to help you.<br> <br> The articles promise that you will get more done.<br> <br> Given that most of us are pretty busy already is the answer to getting things done to get more things done?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Does working harder achieve more?<br> <br> Interviews with successful business people show that the opposite is infact true. These people aren't successful because they use a particular system for getting more work done. They aren't successful because they use some snazzy project management program or task app. It's not because they work longer than we do - they don't do 18 hours because that is impossible for anyone to sustain in the long term.<br> <br> These people aren't successful because they more done than anyone else. <br> <br> They are successful because they do less of the unimportant stuff and focus on the really important stuff.<br> <br> They are successful because they look after themselves. They understand that they are the best asset they have for achieving what they want to achieve.<br> <br> Getting things done for them is about getting the right things done, not trying to get everything done.<br> <br> You might be reading this and thinking it's irrelevant to you because these people at the top of their game have an army of assistants to help them. Of course they do but that doesn't mean the same principles can't apply to you and I.<br> <br> <br> The thing that we have in common with successful people is time.<br> <br> <a href="https://timeadvisor.podbean.com/">We have the same amount of time as they do each and every day.</a><br> <br> Let's look at time for a moment and how we feel about it.<br> <br> Imagine you booked a training course. You paid £100 to go because the topic sounded really interesting. When you got to the course it was pretty grim. The trainer asked the audience lots of questions but didn't give many answers. They also read from a Powerpoint slide most of the day. At the end you felt the £100 was wasted.<br> <br> Now let me ask you a question. What are you more angry about - the £100 you wasted or the 7 hours of time that the course took?<br> <br> We seem to think that time is abundant.<br> <br> Someone who wastes an hour of our time doesn't incur the same level of anger or resentment as something that wastes £10 of our money, despite the fact that we will probably have another £10 in our lives.<br> <br> So what is the point?<br> <br> It's quite simple really.<br> <br> When we think of how to get things done we need to think about what we are <a href="https://timeadvisor.podbean.com/">trying to achieve first</a>.<br> <br> Then we need to look at our time and think about how we can best use our time to achieve the results we want.<br> <br> Infact it's even simpler!<br> <br> We should treat time as an asset - not as a commodity.<br> <br> <br> <br>
