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End Of The Year Urgency

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There are a lot of people who are scrambling to get their work done. The goals that were written down all the way back in January are becoming very significant in the last 6 weeks of the year. This year is coming to a close, and people want to see this year as a good year for their businesses. These last 6 weeks are the weeks in which productivity sky rockets to uncomfortable rates.

There’s less time to kick back and relax. One hour breaks become half an hour breaks. Work keeps on piling on, and when a dim light shows up, more work piles on top of that dim light until the light goes away.

Everyone is hurrying over to Target, Toys R Us, and all of the other retail stores while others are frantically searching Amazon for products to buy. If you do that part now, you’ll be able to relax and watch everyone else going around in a frenzy during the first week of December. Most early shoppers won’t be able to watch for too long because they will have other work to do.

For many individuals, the last quarter is the most productive. The last quarter is crunch time in which progress gets measured. Did you move up from last year to this year? Was there a difference at all? Did anything incredible get accomplished? Everyone wants to be able to answer those questions with a “yes.” However, people start asking themselves these questions as the year comes to a close. This urgency is in action all around you whether you are the one feeling the urgency or one of your friends is feeling the urgency.

It is too late to fix the problem this year since there are only 6 weeks left in the year. However, you can n fix the problem on New Year’s Day. Think of quarters as years. Starting January, you will have to accomplish enough goal to say that you moved up from January to April. Then, continue the cycle. Instead of waiting for 365 days before assessing what you have accomplished, only wait for 1 quarter to do the same assessment.

There is no way around the urgency, but if you experience some kind of urgency all year, you won’t have to experience high rates of uncomfortable urgency at the end of the year.

How Your Business Can Be Productive For More Than 24 Hours Every Day

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The idea sounds bizarre. We can’t stop time just to get the 25th hour. We also have to sleep, eat, and do everything else. However, there is a way to have a business that is productive for more than 24 hours every day. A good business is one that manages itself. Systematized businesses are becoming more important because 10 hours of work can be assigned to other people. Books can now be self published and sold by Amazon. This makes the process of writing and selling books easier since Amazon takes care of everything. WordPress takes good care of this blog (when I have enough posts scheduled). Some of the best online training courses run on complete autopilot.

All of this free time is going to open up more time to create products, go to public speaking events (this time, as the speaker), and help you avoid stress. You’ll be able to get more done because you won’t have to worry about the products you have already created. Instead of having to send email after email to give people access to a membership site or printing a book, going to the post office, and shipping it somewhere, you’ll have time to create more products and enhance your services. You’ll be able to answer more questions and create your next product in 6 months instead of 2 years.

You don’t get to go over 24 hours of productivity every day unless your business is systematized. The hours that other people are working for you add up to your hours of productivity. The business is thriving and getting well over 24 hours of productivity every day whether you’re in the office or in your pajamas.

Thinking Isn’t Doing

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You can think of a goal. You can think of that product. You can think of your blog getting more visitors than ever before. You can think of having hundreds of thousands of followers.

You can think of all of those things, but those thoughts aren’t going to be useful if they aren’t implemented. No matter how long you think about something, it doesn’t happen until you take action. You can think of the next novel, but if you keep on thinking about it, you won’t write it.

Too many people are thinking without reacting and taking action. There are good reasons to think. You can prioritize what is important, what you need to get done, and how you want to get it done. However, by thinking too much, you won’t be able to accomplish what you were thinking of accomplishing in the first place.

Think frequently, but take action as well.

Are Your Goals Urgent?

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The word goals can no longer stand alone and easily get accomplished. Now they have to be urgent. That’s why everyone’s scrambling all over the place as the year comes to an end. October is coming to a close, and then November will start off the last 8 weeks of the year (scary thought, isn’t it). I want you to pay attention to how much more work people are doing at this time. I want you to also pay attention to how much more work you’ll be doing at this time.

The last 8 weeks of the year create the urgency that we needed from the very beginning. Without this urgency, accomplishing goals becomes a lot more difficult.

You need to make all of your goals urgent in order to complete them faster. You need to feel the end of the year urgency throughout the year. You’re going to feel that urgency very soon, but I want you to carry that urgency into 2014 and keep it throughout the entire year. Don’t drop the urgency after January or February. Keep that urgency throughout the entire year so you will be able to accomplish more goals faster.

 

The 12 Week Year, Page 3

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I recently got the book The 12 Week Year, and I’m almost done reading it. The first full sentence on page 3 is one of the most important sentences you will ever read.

“The marketplace only rewards those ideas that get implemented.”

I’ll be coming out with a YouTube video about The 12 Week Year soon enough, but here’s a brief review of the book:

The 12 Week Year, written by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington isn’t a book for you to get a good kickstart for 2014. This book kickstarts you for every 12 weeks. The problem with a year is that there is no sense of urgency. If you don’t get anything done in January, there’s always the other 11 months to catch up. This mentality will take most people past March, April, May, and so on without getting anything done. The 12 Week Year creates a sense of urgency for every week . After you read this book, you’ll find it much easier to successfully execute your ideas and thrive.

If you want to get more accomplished in a much shorter amount of time, The 12 Week Year is the perfect book for you.

Must-Do List

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There are people who are writing down everything they need to accomplish. The problem is that not all of those things get accomplished. The problem is that people are writing their ideas on a to-do list.

A to-do list allows you to write things down that you need to get accomplished. However, the title, to-do list, isn’t as motivating as a must-do list.

There are some things that you will really need to get accomplished. If you put them on a to-do list, it’s optional. If you put them on a must-do list, they’re not optional anymore. You actually have to be committed to accomplishing those goals.

Is there something for you to-do, or is there something that you must-do?