J-WEALTH BOOK CLUB | Eat That Frog! Principles 4, 5 & 6

[Music] welcome to the J well book club and we're covering this month the book eat that track with Ryan Tracy and we're covering the 21 principles that Brian is describing in the book and we're holding by principle number four consider the consequences your most important tests and prior additives are dosed that can have the most serious consequences positive or negative on your life or your work focus on these above all else successful people have a clear future orientation they think five ten twenty years into the future they analyzed their choices and behaviors in the present to make sure that what they are doing today is consistent with the long-term future that they desire the rule is long-term thinking improves short-term decision-making always ask yourself what are the potential consequences of doing or not doing a certain task the rule is future intent influences and often determines the present action that should be your rule if a task or activity has a large potential positive consequence make it a top priority and get started immediately on it but if something has a smaller consequence then it's a smaller priority in the same thing if something has a large negative consequence make sure you get it done quickly as well you get on it right away you make sure you don't do anything else before this is completed but if something has a low consequence then maybe you can push it off a little bit until you are done with the more important tasks so the greater the potential of positive impact that an action or behavior has once you define it clearly the more motivated you will be to overcome procrastination and get it done quickly the law of forced efficiency says there is never enough time to do everything but there is always enough time to do the most important things the three questions you should ask yourself number one what are my highest value activities number two what can I do and only I do that is done well will make a real difference and number three what is the most valuable use of my time right now in other words what is the biggest accomplishment that will happen on the activities the most important activity that I'm going to do today Scotty said the things that matter the most must never be at the mercy of the tanks that matter least homework for principle number four review you list of tasks activities and projects regularly and continually ask yourself which one project or activity if I did it in an excellent and timely fashion would have the greatest positive consequence in my work or personal life and then determine the most important thing you could be doing every hour of every day and then discipline yourself to work continually on the most valuable use of your time and think to yourself what is the most valuable use of my time right now wherever it is that can help you the most accomplish your goals this is on what you should be focusing most of the day we are covering principle number five of the 21 principles for success from Brian Tracy and that is since you can't do everything you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count you can't do everything I urge you start living with this fact you can't do everything you have to start discriminating against lower valued activities in order to clean up your time and make time make room for the higher valued activities as brian says the rule you can get your time and your life under control to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities as Warren Buffett one of the richest people in the world was once asked his secret to success listen to what he replied simple I just say no to everything that is not absolutely vital to me at the moment one of the most powerful of all words and time management is the word no I can't do that I have something more important to do you can't make me do something that is not vitally important and also for you to do something now you must complete or stop doing something else getting in requires getting out you cannot get in if you don't get out from somewhere else first you have to stop doing something in order to start doing something else picking up means putting down you have to train yourself to be a creative procrastinator and that means is backed up thoughtfully and deliberately deciding about the exact things that you are not going to do right now if ever and nothing is gonna happen if you're not gonna ever do it these low valued activities most people focus on unconscious procrastination meaning they procrastinate on thanks without consciously procrastinating and as a result what happens is they're procrastinating on things that are important big deals a big important task and they're procrastinating on that and as a result they don't accomplish what they want to accomplish you have to train yourself on proactive consciously procrastination you procrastinate deliberately because you understand that this our death activity is not going to get me to my end result now homework for you learn to think in the way of zero based thinking which means and every part of your life ask yourself continually if you were not doing this yesterday would you excited this today are you only doing it because you did it yesterday is this something you would have not started again today knowing what you know now it is the friend candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination when you understand that you're doing something today only because you you used to do it yesterday or the day before you most probably can procrastinate on that you don't have to do it today number two examine each of your personal and work activities and evaluate it based on your current situation select at least one activity to abandon immediately or at least deliberately put it off until more important goals have been achieved if you do that you're gonna clean up some space you're gonna move away some things that standing in your way of accomplishing your most important activities that will really make a difference in order for you to succeed you're holding by principle number six use the a b c ve method continually before you begin your award on a list of tasks take a moment to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities the ABCDE method is a powerful priority-setting technique that you can use every single day this technique is so simple and effective that it can all by itself make you one of the most efficient and effective people in your field the power of this technique lies in the simplicity and here is how it works you start with a list of everything you have to do for the coming day think on paper write it down you damn place a b c d or e next to each item on your list before you begin the first test and a of course is the very important test this is the most important thing that is in line with your gold and lime with your success in line with what you want to accomplish if not done it will have the biggest consequence on your goals and your success beef is something you should do if not done it will have mild consequences C would be something that it would be nice to do if not done would have no consequences be something you can delegate you can have somebody else do it he tests that should be eliminated it's not gonna get you to your goal and of course if you have more than one a task you should prioritize it by a 1 a 2 a 3 etc and so on so forth and each item you a one task is the biggest most important thing that you need to focus first your ability to think through and analyze your work list and determine you a one task is the springboard to the higher levels of accomplishment and your greater self esteem self respect and personal pride and of course now you have your homework pick a list and prioritize your tasks a b c b e as we discussed and select your a and a1 projects that you're going to do and practice the ABCDE method for the next month and every worker every project that you're going to do until you develop a habit of setting and working on your highest priority tasks and your future will be a short you