Posts tagged consumption
Spare Time?
May 24th
Choose to produce instead of consume.
This goes for pretty much anything: information, content, expertise, goods, resources, time, energy, food, media, entertainment, hobbies, food, etc.
People who consistently produce more than they consume always wind up in a better place than they started. As an added bonus, the more you produce, the easier it becomes and the quality increases with every iteration. It’s a choice that can quickly be turned into a habit.
The funny thing is that it’s just as easy to develop the bad habit of consuming instead. And it’s much more difficult to break that habit.
What about you? Are you consuming more than you’re producing? Or are you providing more value to the marketplace than you are expending?
(The irony is that I believe our ability to produce so efficiently is our tragic flaw, but that requires a much longer post to explain…)
Performance: The Other 50%
Feb 1st
Credit for concept: Coach Willie Hooks
It is a well-known fact that multitasking does not increase productivity, it reduces it.
Yet so many people get hung up on the idea that the only way to get ahead is to learn more, work harder, and get more done each day. As hard-driving entrepreneurs, it’s in our blood. Our passion generates the effort and dedication necessary to achieve our goals.
But we often overlook 50% of the equation that dictates our performance – interference.
This concept can be applied across a number of topics – money, weight, etc. (see below):
Along with improving the “front-end” (increasing our Potential, or increasing our Income, watching what we eat), we should work equally as hard to manage the “back-end” of the equation.
Everyone can increase his/her Performance tremendously without ever learning another tip, trick, tool, or bit of information. It is so easy to get swept up in learning the latest trend or technology that we rarely stop to ask ourselves: “Is it worth my time to implement this, or am I just adding another layer of interference?” Tools were created to make our efforts more productive, but there comes a point where the cost outweighs the benefit.
So what are you going to do to decrease the interference in your life and improve your performance?