Quotes About Efficiency

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. —BILL GATES

In other words, the minutiae fit around the big things, but the big things don't fit around the minutiae.

The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.

Concéntrate en ser productivo, no en estar ocupado.

Timothy Ferriss

Put a Post-it on your computer screen or set an Outlook reminder to alert you at least three times daily with the question: Are you inventing things to do to avoid the important?

Con cada una de esas tareas plantéate esta pregunta: «Si esto fuera lo único que hiciera en este día, ¿me daría por satisfecho por hoy?».

Adelantar esta tarea ¿convertiría las demás en triviales o más fáciles de despachar después?». Dicho de otra manera: «¿Cuál de estas cosas, en caso de estar hecha, facilitaría las demás o las convertiría en irrelevantes?».

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

TF: Lack of time is lack of priorities. If I'm "busy," it is because I've made choices that put me in that position, so I've forbidden myself to reply to "How are you?" with "Busy." I have no right to complain. Instead, if I'm too busy, it's a cue to reexamine my systems and rules.

What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive? These are usually used to postpone more important actions (often uncomfortable because there is a chance of failure or rejection). Be honest with yourself, as we all do this on occasion. What are your crutch activities?

Timothy Ferriss

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

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.

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

Si sientes continuamente la contraproducente necesidad de tener volumen de trabajo y de hacer muchas cosas, escribe esto en un post-it:

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

Estar ocupado es una forma de vagancia: pereza para pensar y acción indiscriminada. Estar ocupado sirve casi siempre para disfrazar el aplazamiento de unas pocas tareas muy importantes pero incómodas.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

Así que si estás pensando en hacer algo con tu vida, si has planificado cómo llegar hasta ahí en diez años, deberías preguntarte por qué no puedes hacerlo en seis meses.

It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

Los dos somos grandes seguidores de Peter Drucker y de su libro El ejecutivo eficaz (Círculo de lectores, 1997), así como de la obra de Alain de Botton (véase capítulo con el mismo título) titulada Cómo cambiar tu vida con Proust (RBA,

Being busy is not the same as being productive.