Waking up Monday – Friday feeling as though the rat-race is running your life? In his article, Create a ’26-Hour Day With This Simple Strategy, John Brubaker clearly portrays how the time we manage must be invested in quality procedure, else be wasted in haphazard engagements. Let’s veer from the paper-shuffle for just a second and tune in to how we can leverage measurement for revving-up our motivation, full-speed ahead.
All of John’s clients use his proprietary system, which he designates as ‘The Daily Game Plan. Every night you need to game plan how you will invest the 24 hours in your next day because measurement equals motivation. Without regularly tracking the amount of work that is being accomplished, it can be difficult to deduce the exact metrics that will allow one to increase overall productivity.
While e-mails, meetings, and casual encounters turn us around the clock, it can be easy to forget that YOU are the center of the big picture. Schedule non-negotiable appointments with yourself for the biggest life priority. You are your most important client, he further stresses—a point that all too often goes unacknowledged.
The more familiar you are with regular procedures throughout the day, the more efficient you can be. There is tremendous performance power in having routines. In getting back to our theme, let’s aim on driving motivation by maximizing output down to the minute—and why not make a game of it—or a race against yourself along a time-trial for self-improvement. (Make it fun!)
How you choose to invest your time will not only define the kind of person you become, but the quality of output you produce. Start with a Game Plan, make yourself your most important client, play the game by routines that operate on point and you should be well on your way to outstanding progress. What do you say we schedule ourselves a non-negotiable appointment and on one, two, three—break!