The secret to all power lies in this: Make it happen because you said so.
Be your word. Set a goal. Make a plan. Make it happen.
Today's TQ Challenge: Work Your Plans Until You Succeed or Find a Better Way.
The best plan in the world is useless until it's put into action. How well you follow through with your plans -- ultimately determines your success. You only make things happen when you act on your plans and see them through to the end. Master this skill, and the achievement of any goal is just a written plan away.
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..." ~ Robert Collier
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Constantly improve your systems. Take time when things are going smoothly to review your systems, equipment and processes. Look for additional options and better alternatives to improve what you already have. It's always better to choose a change rather than to be forced into making one.
An hour spent improving your systems today will save days of downtime later.
Today's TQ Challenge: Find New Ways To Do More By Doing Less.
It's always better to choose a change, than to be forced into making one. When things are going smoothly, take the time to review your systems, equipment and processes. Look for new options and better alternatives. Get creative. Read the trade journals and find out how the best-of-the-best created and use their systems. Look at your work from your customer's, supplier's or competitor's perspective. You can always find a more efficient, productive or enjoyable way to complete your work.
"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." ~ Alan Lakein
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As you go through your daily tasks, keep in touch with your mission and goals. The most important things in your life should never be sacrificed to the less important.
Take a moment throughout the day to relate your mission and goals to each task you do. Don't let your journey obscure your destination.
Today's TQ Challenge: Focus ONLY on What's MOST Important Each Day.
When you prioritize your life, you determine where your time will produce the most rewarding and satisfying results. Base these priorities on your personal list of values, goals and commitments. Urgency is a quality given to something requiring immediate attention -- regardless of its relative value. You can spend years chasing down one urgency after another. Or, you can focus on top priorities and ensure that what's most important to you actually shows up in your life. By choosing priorities over urgencies, you stop reacting to circumstances and start creating a life of power, passion and purpose.
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." ~ Harriet Braiker
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There's a difference between a vision and a fantasy. A vision is highly detailed and has specific goals for its accomplishment. A fantasy is anything else.
Your vision is as real as you make it -- no more, no less. Honor your vision by specifying the details and objectives required to make it happen.
Today's TQ Challenge: Convert Dreams Into Hard Targets with Specific Milestones.
You'll never make a dream real until you have something specific to aim at. There is no way you can plan for -- to say nothing of work toward -- a "better life." You can, however, stipulate a list of conditions that would define a better life. Each of those items can then be made into a precise target you can aim for, and immediately begin to work towards. So, dream your dreams, then identify specific examples in the real world that best represent the desired qualities of your dream. Once you do this, you'll be well on your way to creating that "better life" you desire.
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are." ~ Arnold H. Glasgow
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If you think you may be wasting time, try keeping a time log. Once you know where your time is wasted, you can start working to get it back.
To make every hour payoff, find out exactly where you are spending each of your minutes.
Today's TQ Challenge: Keep Your Time Log Current.
It's hard to think back and determine if you used your time well or not. Your evaluation may be too fuzzy and subjective to be reliable. However, an accurately kept time log will show you exactly how you invested your time -- and if it was a profitable investment. You can count the hours, review your results and see what you really got in trade. Once you know where you receive the greatest return, you can invest your time more wisely. Once you see where your time is wasted, you can learn to be more efficient.
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Think of life as a permanent learning project. Life never stops evolving, and neither should you!
The only constant is change. The only way to keep constant with change is to keep learning and growing as life changes.
Today's TQ Challenge: Embrace Change -- Grow With the Flow.
There are no limits to who you can become. The only constant is change -- and the only way to keep up with change is to learn and grow. The more you learn and grow, the more progressive and effective you'll become. Keep expanding your possibilities by being open and receptive to new ideas. If you're not constantly improving your learning power, you're falling farther behind -- and your earning power may be falling even faster.
"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves." ~ Tryon Edwards
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I made it a habit years ago to ruthlessly limit my exposure to junk, fake and useless news to just 30 minutes a day.
That is more than enough time to get a global perspective on what's going on, process what is being said, and form an opinion.
Think about this.
There are only 1,440 minutes in a day (24 hours x 60 minutes).
Read this article at ThinkTQ.com.
For the past two weeks, we have been discussing the peace of mind that comes from knowing you have done your very best.
If you do the best you can, given the circumstances in which you find yourself, what more is there?
Better.
To achieve your dreams... to maintain balance in the heat of the battle... to know that you have done the best you could given the circumstances you faced... requires you to focus on the important, and not be consumed by the urgent.
This is a major driver of success, both personally and professionally. It is not hard to focus, if you know what's important to you, and what's not.
For the next two weeks, we will be discussing the "flip side" of Will Power: Peace of Mind.
As those of you who have read The Power of TQ know, my definition of success is simply this: "The peace of mind that comes from knowing you have done your very best."
As General Patton says, if you do your best, what more is there?
This week, in light of the upcoming Thanksgiving Weekend, we will be discussing how showing thanks and appreciation, in everyday terms, enhances your ability to live what you value most.
If you are not GETTING what you want out of life, maybe you're not GIVING enough to it.
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