I took away some ideas from this – couldn’t agree with all of the concepts but defiantly some take away as can be seen below.

 

 

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1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

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1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

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this: What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. Efficiency is still important, but it is useless unless applied to the right things.

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What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management

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less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

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Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I give you a week to complete the same task, it’s six days of making a mountain out of a molehill. If I give you

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may be bliss, but it is also practical. It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

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switching of gears that can require up to 45 minutes to resume a major task that has been interrupted. More than a quarter of each 9–5 period (28%) is consumed by such interruptions.11

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It was endless. Hundreds upon hundreds of different situations made it impractical to write a manual, and I didn’t have the time or experience to do so regardless.

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efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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Brickwork and YMII both exemplify this type of structure and provide a single point

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Celeb Brokers (www.celebbrokers.com) (310-268-1476) President Jack King was the person who first turned me on to this fascinating

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Celebrity Endorsement Network (www.celebrityendorsement.com) (818-225-7090) Celebrity Finding

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The Magic of Thinking Big (192 pages) BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

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Less Is More: The Art of Voluntary Poverty— An Anthology of Ancient and Modern Voices in Praise of Simplicity (336 pages) EDITED BY GOLDIAN VANDENBROECK This is a collection of bite-sized philosophies on simple living. I read it to learn how to do the most with the least and eliminate artificial needs, not live like a monk—big difference. It incorporates actionable principles and short stories ranging from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin and the Bhagavad Gita to modern economists.

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How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months

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23. It is illegal to control how much someone sells your product for, but you can dictate how much they advertise it for. This is done by including a Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) policy in your General Terms and Conditions (GTC), which are agreed to automatically when a written wholesale order is placed. Sample GTC and order forms are available at www.fourhourworkweek.com.