Start Doing More with a 'Stop-Doing' List!
People are taught to focus on tasks they need or want to do, especially at the beginning of a new year. Typically, they follow the advice of business coaches and time-management gurus by creating the venerable "to-do" list. However, at today's frantic pace, many people engage in activities that impede their success.
Best-selling business author Jim Collins says a "stop-doing" list can help correct this unproductive trend. He calls a stop-doing list the most critical list you'll ever make, because equally important to the ingredients for success is what's kept out of the recipe.
Create your stop-doing list by recording activities you are currently performing that waste your time, don't generate revenue or don't fuel your passion. Here are some stop-doing list examples:
Taking up your time by continually reacting to emails; instead, schedule certain times during the day to focus on email
Procrastinating about marketing, database management and other critical business tasks that will help you achieve your goals
Dwelling on the competition and their perceived strengths
Associating with negative people
Excessive socializing and not enough attention to tasks that move your business forward
Taking incomplete loan applications that result in processing problems
Take a hard look at your day, and do an honest assessment of activities that might be causing you to miss your goals, and instead, focus on the things that will move you forward. Only you know what you need to stop doing in order to propel yourself from being good to great.
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