Do Just One Thing Today and Do It Well
We are often thrown side-to-side in our everyday lives, running from one errand to the next - huffing and puffing our way through the day before crashing at night and restarting the cycle in the morning.
While we are accomplishing dozens of tasks each day, are we completing them to the best of our abilities?
Think for a moment - what was the most important thing you did today?
Now consider…could you have done it better if you spent more time on it?
Whatever you want to become in life, you need to take each step towards that goal with pride and joy. If you aren’t completing everyday tasks to the best of your ability, then what makes you think you deserve more responsibility?
Here are three tips for becoming a more effective worker:
- Take the Time to Do Things Right: If you have a 4 hour project sitting on your desk, don’t try and rush it off in 3…block enough time out of your calendar to ensure that you complete it to the best of your ability. If you get in a habit of rushing things, you’ll end up making a mess of your work.
- Schedule Tasks Appropriately: What time is your prime-time for working? If you work best in the morning, then make sure that you are taking that time to work! If you work best at night, then do everything you can to schedule a couple hours of work. The fact is…you can accomplish much more in a couple hours of dedicated work than you can in a whole day of acting busy.
- Finish Projects to Perfection: Not everything we do requires perfection, but that doesn’t mean that some things do. If you’ve ever attended a wedding, you know how much work was put into the planning and preparation to make things run smoothly. While you don’t need months of planning for a work assignment, you still need to be diligent in lining everything up so that you can complete your best projects to perfection. If you don’t take the time to make it happen, it never will.
I encourage you to consider doing one thing each day that requires perfection - and complete it to the best of your ability. It won’t be easy, but you’ll end each day feeling much more accomplished.
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