You can do anything if you do not try to do everything

Porn does not help. In terms of productivity porn. Lists, motivational quotes, self-discipline... All of these techniques and methods aimed at increasing personal productivity, do not work. Rather, they do help to make 1000 cases per day. But do you need it?

Perhaps you will reach your goals faster if you stop watching and productivity porn.

To do this you need 3 things.

1. Focus on your talents

What does it mean to have a talent for something? It means to spend invest time in something that will bring you profit.

What do you think, than most in life has been Tiger Woods? And Bill Gates? They did not try to multi-task and do what they do best.

His talent is there for everyone. But instead of developing it, we spend a lot of time on something that we do not have a natural predisposition. Learning Chinese, because business partners from China, learning to drive, although a faint fear of the road.

Of course, sometimes the "score" for some tasks impossible. But the question is not whether to do or not to do, the question is how to allocate your time. It is obvious that most of it should take to develop your talent.

Just do it! Neither the second do not believe this sentence, if it does not belong to a favorite cause. Work - it's good. But you need to work on what is really "your".

2. Do not ask permission

"But no one will pay me for what I horseshoes flea. Although mikrominiatyurizm is my calling! "

By itself. You will be hungry, creating works of art in the eye of the coal until it becomes your work. Yes, yes, the work - this is not prosizhivanie in the office 40 hours a week. Work - it's your business. Favorite and profitable. For the latter, try to open a store of miniatures.

You like music? Speak! Good writing? Published! Do you want to be a businessman? Open your company! make his case. And do not ask anybody's permission.

Small problem: in order to succeed, you have to be the best of the best his case. How to achieve this? Cm. paragraph 1.

3. Line up a social shield

"Hey, help me with the report?", "Help me to make a presentation?", "Help me to write a text?" - we do a lot of foreign affairs. Simply because we ask for it. As a result, these own businessThey bombard us like a meteor rain.

To guard against this, you need to get a little "sociopath" and learn to say "No!".

Just "No" to everything that eats up your time. Categorical "No!". It's easier than you think, if you do not think about what they thought of you and focus on your own goals. Of course, it would cause an uproar on the part of those who are accustomed to you "ride". But you will have a sea of ​​time on his business.

Three simple advice: develop talent, do their own thing and do not do other people's affairs. But to bring them to life, we need courage. And you weak?