Double Your Productivity with Brian Tracy
Brian Sylvan
In eleventh installment of Brian Tracy's Podcast series entitled, "21 Great Ways to Double Your Productivity," Brian talks about "Single-Handling Key Tasks."
Many of history's richest men, including Dale Carnegie, have attributed their success to this one success skill. Wouldn't you like to have some extra cash?
How about boosting your own productivity by 50% in just the first day? That's what Brian Tracy promises.
How Do You Single-Handle Key Tasks?
Basically, it's choosing the most important task you have to complete and working on it (without distraction) until it's done. Brian Tracy breaks it into three steps:
1. Make a list of everything you have to do.
2. Mark the absolute most important item on your list.
3. Immediately begin working on this most important task and stick with it until it is complete.
Two Keys of Success
According to Brian Tracy, by Single-Handling Key Tasks you'll be using the two keys of success:
1. Focus
2. Concentration
Your Advantage
Brian Tracy daringly pronounces that you have more success employing this one habit that any of the other success skills you can develop. That's a promise worth testing.
He further says that you increase the amount of time needed to spend on a task by 5 times when you lay it aside to complete later. Ouch! Unfortunately, most of us don't work to completion with our tasks. We often get distracted.
The potential upside is well worth it. If you work on the task until completion you will increase your own output by 80%. This is why Brian Tracy says it is "one of the great secrets of time management and high productivity."
And you can acquire this habit easily with a little bit of practice and persistence.
There are two major benefits:
1. You'll rise to the top of your chosen field, quickly.
2. Your self-esteem, happiness, and self-esteem will all increase.
Try this method today and see how much your productivity increases. You'll soon have the attention of your boss (in a good way!).
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