2009 Is Slowly Creeping To An And!

As the year is slowly creeping to an end, there’s a need for you to look back and reflect on the things you’ve done in the course of the year and those that are left untouched. There’s also a need for you to access your strength and weakness to ascertain the level of your efficiency and effectiveness.

Efficiency they say is the foundation for survival.

Most people at the beginning of the year make resolutions that up till today have failed to implement them due to lack of dedication, diligence, resilience, perseverance and self – discipline. Being the architect of your life and destiny, the design you pictured may not appear just as you pictured them if your level of efficiency is low. In order words, the success you hope to achieve at the end of the year may not be achieved if you are inefficient or ineffective. Effectiveness is the foundation of success.

How do you make the best of the remaining days of the year?

So far you are still alive today, there’s hope for you and you can still have a reason to celebrate if and only if you could adjust or change your way of life. To be productive, follow these 3 steps:

1. Be Organized or Agonize
To develop a successful and productive lifestyle, one of your first tasks must be to organize Yourself, Work and Time. When you are organized, you begin to experience a stable mind, normal blood pressure and live a stress free life. Being organized is the same as planning ahead. Don’t forget that “he who fails to plan, plans to fail.”

To organize or plan your life, you must place priority on your tasks or assignments, according to their importance and urgency. You may need to write them down and arrange them in this format:

• High Importance/High Urgency – Deal with projects that fall under this category first.
• Low Importance/Low Urgency – Set deadlines for the completion and get these projects worked into your daily routine.
• Low Importance/High Urgency – Find quick and effective ways to get this work done without much personal involvement. You can delegate it to someone that is capable of doing it for you.
• Low Importance/Low Urgency – These are works that falls into our daily tasks, e.g. filling, returning calls, etc. and you stalk them and set a 1 ½ hour to do them once in a week. Likewise, you can postpone them indefinitely. No matter how low the importance of any task, always study it to know if you can do it today before putting it off until tomorrow.

2. Self - Discipline
No matter how gifted, famous, smart or powerful you are, if you lack self – discipline, you can not achieve or sustain success. Self – discipline is denying yourself every form of enjoyment or pleasure and paying the price to get the better result that you want through sacrifice and tireless pursuit of your desired result.

3. Diligence

“The hand of the diligent makes rich.” Pv 10:4

Diligence calls for being self – disciplined, motivated, alert, dependable and entails following through. A diligent mind always focuses on positive outcome of every task and endeavors.