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Perfectionism: Perfectionism is not a commitment to excellence, but truly a show-stopping compulsion that hinders success and productivity. If we stand there revising and adjusting projects and products, we are likely to never move the needle forward meaningfully at all.
Disorganization: Technically, this is the disturbance in the systems that create order in one’s work or life. What we really see, though, is the results: Searching for the same items over and over, wasted time, lost projects, missed meetings and connections, and finally, after all of that, ultimately … lost opportunities.
Email: We need to set times to reply to e-mail. By not creating a structure around reading and answering e-mails, according to your most important goals for the day, you run the risk of doing nothing but treading water all day and accomplishing nothing. The truth is that only 20% of email produce 80% results. Paretto’s law.
Prioritization: Not doing the 4 most important things on the to-do list – but doing 25 other things. We need to flip quantity to quantity. Personally, I use a to-do list to identify the time I have available, block in essential tasks to hit my daily or weekly goals, schedule high-priority tasks and vital “house-keeping” activities FIRST and then do all that remains. Without SOME plan around activities most people will do 25 things but never move the needle forward with the most important (or difficult) tasks.
Yours Truly, Tommy Antonopoulos