FREE: A $400,000 IDEA

So, you have CHOSEN your goal, crafted an ACTION PLAN/LIST, researched with the help of RESOURCES.  You’re on the right track.

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers.

In other words, if you want to do something, do it!

A short story about long results:

In the early 20th Century, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world.

Schwab was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the largest shipbuilder and the second-largest steel producer in America,

So, as the story goes, one day in 1918, in his PERSISTENT quest to increase the efficiency of his team and discover better ways to get things done, Schwab arranged a meeting with a highly-respected RESOURCE -- a productivity consultant named Ivy Lee.

Schwab brought Lee into his office and said, “Show me a way to get more things done.”
Lee said that it would cost nothing for his counsel. “Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it’s worth to you.” 

Lee spent as little as 15 minutes with each executive,  His method:

    ▪    At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.

    •    Prioritize them in order of their true importance.

    •    At the start of each day, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.

    •    Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.

    •    Repeat this process every working day.

Sound too simple?  I imagine that it did to all the executives as well. But, after just three months of PERSISTENT ACTION Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000 (A $25,000 check written in 1918 is the equivalent of something like $400,000 today).

If you're thinking, What about interruptions and emergencies and rushes and…?
That’s where the EVALUATION and DIRECTION part of Carpe Diem Life comes in.  We’ll discuss those in another blog. 

For now, why don’t you try The Ivy Lee Method and see how it goes for you.  This $400,000 idea is free (But, if you feel obligate, my contact information is on the site).

“I know the price of success:  dedication, hard work and unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen”  — Frank Lloyd Wright

Carpe diem!