Key Concepts about Priorities

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• Think carefully about what priorities mean to you… about how you decide what is really important. Remember, you will never have time for everything, but you will have time for most important thing.

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• 80-20 rule: Eighty percent of the value comes from 20 percent of the items. While only 20 percent of the value comes from 80 percent of the items. Learn to concentrate on your high value 20 percent and master them.

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• Most people start with the quick, easy, enjoyable things first. Instead, start with the important things first.

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• Just because something is urgent, doesn't mean it’s important. Important activities are those which help you achieve your goals.

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• Learn to distinguish between important and urgent.

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• Don’t allow trivial thing to crowd out the important things.

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• Don’t always do someone else’s requests at the expense of your own top priority tasks. Learn when to say no. Do it logically, firmly and tactfully.

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• Constantly switching priorities often results from failure to establish priorities properly in the first place. The best way to set priorities is on the basis of importance.

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• Don’t constantly switch priorities just because people make loud demands. Be very careful about which squeaky wheels get greased.

Key Concepts about Goals

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• Determine your long range goals. Make sure you are aiming at what you really want.

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• Be sure to set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed

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• Don’t try to keep your goals in your head, write them down

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• Read your long range goals at least once every day. You will find it easier to sort out all the trivia that comes your way.

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• You need short range goals to know what to do today. You need long range goals to add continuity and meaning to all your short range goals.

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• Consider projects carefully. Make sure they will move you toward your goals. Identify the critical steps, when they should be done and who should do them.

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• Set deadlines for all your projects. Estimate the time needed and determine the logical starting time to avoid last-minute rush jobs.

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• Focus on your goals at all times. “Will what I am doing right now help me achieve my goals?” if the answer is “no”, then switch to something else that will help.

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• Be sure that you have at least one significant goal every day. Don’t quit until you reach your daily goals. Before long you will develop the habit of setting goals and reaching them.

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• Write out long range personal goals. Strive to balance your time across all aspects of your life.

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• When conditions change, you may need to modify your goals. And, as you achieve your goals be sure to set new ones.

36 Random Insights On Exceptionalism -Robin Sharma

1. Average people are dedicated to leisure. The best people are devoted to learning.

2. The ordinary wait for the energy to do a task. The exceptional do the task because that’s how they get the energy.

3. A job is just a job if all you see it as is a job. (Work is a vehicle to promote Full Self Expression of Your Creativity+Ingenuity+Talent).

4. The most precious asset of a businessperson isn’t time. It’s energy. Manage yours well.

5. Love your family. What’s the point of getting to uber-Success yet arriving alone?

6. From a participant at my recent Lead Without a Title event in Doha, Qatar: “The true measure of the greatness of a person is the length their shadow casts on the future.” Love it! Genius.

7. Manners matter.

8. If you’re in business, you’re in show business. And every day’s a performance.

9. “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde.

10. To double your income, triple your rate of learning. The best invest in their professional and personal development.

11. The primary purpose of business is the delivery of as much unusual value to as many people as possible.

12. Use music to boost your motivation.

13. Be ethical like Buffett. Rock the house like Bono. Innovate like Edison. Serve like Mandela.

14. You dishonor yourself when you play small with your talent.

15. Ideation without execution leads to delusion. What makes Google Google is not the idea behind Google but the culture of execution that is Google.

16. Don’t work at world-class for the money or the ovations. Do it for the pride you feel on a job brilliantly done.

17. Keep a journal.

18. Spend time in solitude. The only person you’ll be with your whole life is you. Why not get to know-and like-yourself?

19. Watch “The Fighter”.

20. Work hard. Industry stands at the foundation of Mastery.

21. Remember that the quality of your practice determines the caliber of the performance.

22. Speak your truth-even when your voice shakes.

23. Leaders leave a trail of leaders behind them. If you’re not developing the best in others, you’re not leading.

24. You know you’re doing genius-level work when people start to dislike you.

25. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to Mastery.

26. Develop your friendships. Respect your elders.

27. Make time to have fun. Life is short-enjoy the ride.

28. The bigger your dream, the more important your team.

29. If you have average people, you’ll have an average company. To have a great company, hire and coach great people.

30. Remember that your doubts are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

31. Leadership is simple. It’s not easy. But it’s really really simple.

32. Leadership’s mostly about 3 things: Impact+Influence+Inspiration.

33. If you’re not inspiring those around you, you’re not Leading. You’re following.

34. Think for yourself.

35. “Potential unexpressed turns to pain.” From “The Leader Who Had No Title“.

36. Take brave risks. At your End, it’ll be the risks you didn’t take versus the ones you did that most fill you with regret.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness.

It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world!

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
American writer, activist

"It is wonderful what you can do when you have to."

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Irish writer, scholar

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

We are NOT Human Beings going through a Temporary Spiritual Experience,
We are Spiritual Beings going through a Temporary Human Experience!