Quotes About Effectiveness

Nuestro objetivo no es crear un negocio lo más grande posible, sino un negocio que nos moleste lo menos posible.

Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

The NR aims to distribute "mini-retirements" throughout life instead of hoarding the recovery and enjoyment for the fool's gold of retirement. By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

Yes, I know we're all very busy, but what, exactly, is getting done? Are all those people running late for meetings and yelling on their cell phones stopping the spread of malaria or developing feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or making anything beautiful?

My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What's the smallest possible footprint I can get away with? What is the smallest possible project that is worth my time? What is the smallest group of people who I could make a difference for, or to? Because smallest is achievable. Smallest feels risky. Because if you pick smallest and you fail, now you've really screwed up.

determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want),

What am I continuing to do myself that I'm not good at?" Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.

Greetings, Friends [or Esteemed Colleagues], Due to high workload, I am currently checking and responding to e-mail twice daily at 12:00 P.M. ET [or your time zone] and 4:00 P.M. ET. If you require urgent assistance (please ensure it is urgent) that cannot wait until either 12:00 P.M. or 4:00 P.M., please contact me via phone at 555-555-5555. Thank you for understanding this move to more efficiency and effectiveness. It helps me accomplish more to serve you better. Sincerely, Tim Ferriss

At least three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

Peter Drucker and his book The Effective Executive, as well as Alain de Botton's (page 486) How Proust Can Change Your Life.

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less (288 pages) BY RICHARD KOCH

Am I being productive or just active?

capacidad de hacer una sola cosa cada vez es un superpoder.

And by "unreasonably effective," I mean something quite specific: Something is unreasonably effective if it seems to be useful outside the scope of its assumptions, outside the scope of the context in/for which it was developed.

Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

If you prioritize properly, there is no need to multitask. It is a symptom of "task creep"—doing more to feel productive while actually accomplishing less. As stated, you should have, at most, two primary goals or tasks per day. Do them separately from start to finish without distraction. Divided attention will result in more frequent interruptions, lapses in concentration, poorer net results, and less gratification.

Concéntrate en ser productivo, no en estar ocupado.

Dedica de dos a tres horas a concentrarte en UNA de esas tareas hoy. Deja de lado el resto de lo urgente, pero menos importante. Mañana seguirá ahí. PARA QUE QUEDE

realidad, basta con una sola regla: el qué haces es más importante que el cómo haces todo lo demás, y hacer algo bien no lo convierte en algo importante.

If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right.

To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load").

Being busy is not the same as being productive.