No Excuses!

your company—and your industry. What should you or could you do differently? 2. Make a list of everything you do in your job and then identify the three tasks that contribute the greatest value to your work and company. 3. Set a new work schedule for yourself and begin to start earlier, work harder, and stay later until it becomes a habit. 4. Ident

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The rule is that you should never do a B task when you have an A task left undone. You should never do a lower-value task when you have a higher-value task before you.

1. Why am I on the payroll? Exactly what have I been hired to do? What results are expected of me?

Having heard this before, I then ask them the critical question: “Is there anyone at your company who earns twice as much as you?” The person who I am talking to will always agree that, “Yes, there are people in my company who earn two or three times as much as I do.” I then make the key point, “So your company is quite willing to pay some people t

3. Define your biggest business or personal problem clearly. Write it down. What exactly is the problem? 4. Why is this a problem? Could it be an opportunity in disguise? If so, what opportunity or lesson could this problem contain? 5. What else is the problem? Perhaps the real problem is something else, something you might not want to face? 6. What a

Leadership and self-discipline go hand in hand. It is not possible to imagine an effective leader who lacks self-discipline, willpower, self-control, and self-mastery.

Each time you discipline yourself to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not, your self-esteem increases.

We call this the “Law of Three.” The Law of Three says that there are three primary things you do that contribute 90 percent or more of your value to your company or organization. Your job is to identify those three critical tasks and then discipline yourself to do them all day long.