Rory Vaden in Procrastinate on Purpose 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time challenges us to selectively procrastinate to improve our future. As with all posts this is not intended to be a complete review of the book but rather key points germane to pharmacy leaders.
- Quit telling everyone how busy you are because
- Your problem is not that you are too busy but that you don't own your situation
- You get stressed and frustrated with distractions, fine-we all do. You and I all have the same amount of time each day as Gandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Michael Jordan or anyone else who has achieved greatness
- Once you own your problem, you empower yourself to create your own solution with how you allocate and manage your time. So the first step is to get over your self-indulgent complaining which is allowing yourself to be a victim when you don't have to
- You are not a victim. You are in charge. You are capable. You are powerful enough to decide what you will and won’t do with your time.
- But one thing you are not is too busy
- Go through just one day with this question at the forefront of your mind. Does what I’m doing right now require my unique skill set or is it possible that there are other people capable of doing this? You might be shocked at your findings.
- As a leader your goal should be to focus on activities that will make a long-term, significant impact on the future versus being just busy.
- Successful people think differently. And it is their thinking that shapes a different set of choices, which ultimately yields incredibly different results from other people.
- Too many times we have a focus on what we did instead of all that resulted from what we did
- Multiply your time by focusing on significance or how long is this going to matter versus urgency or how soon does this need to be done or, importance how much does it matter
- Give yourself permission to multiply time by
- Eliminating- What are all the things I can just eliminate and perhaps save me time tomorrow
- Automating everything possible and become a master user of technology
- Delegating the things that can’t be eliminated but done by someone else. Ask yourself What it is costing me to keep doing these tasks
- Procrastinate by asking yourself Can this wait until later so I can just think and plan
- Concentrating by quickly calculating/recalculating which activities are going to have the most Significant long-term impact and focus only on them
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