Nuggets from the FranklinCovey FOCUS! class April 2, 2007
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- Breakdowns enable breakthroughs!
- The challenge in the workplace today is not knowledge — it is insight. You must bring your heart and your head to work.
- Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your picture with excellence!
- Time is not about the clock – it’s about the choices you make.
- All of this is common sense — but it’s not common practice.
- You need to LIVE – rather than BEING LIVED.
- If you consciously brought your values, talents, and passions to work every day, what amazing breakthroughs could happen!
- “So what if not everyone buys into it?” Well, 2 simple options: 1) Leave, 2) Stay and be the catalyst for change. Start with your smallest circle of influence, and gradually build outward. Every avalanche started with only a single snowflake.
- Choosing between “right” and “wrong” is easy — it’s choosing between “good” and “better” that’s hard.
- A goal is a planned-for event — a dream with a deadline. And there will be a cost involved…time or money or both. And if it is truly important enough to you, then you’ll pay it. Who or what are you already paying your time or money too? Is that what is truly important to you?
- 10 years from now, you’ll be 10 years older anyway, so why not live your dreams?
- Goals have to be S.M.A.R.T = Sustainable, Measurable, Attainable, Reachable, Timely
- Take time to sharpen the saw. Have you ever been so busy driving that you didn’t have time to stop for gas? When the saw is sharp, you’ll get more results, better results, easier results, and less waste. You can’t sharpen just one tooth — it has to be the whole thing, and it has to be even and consistent.
- You will feel endorphines rush when you act in accordance with your values — that’s what happiness is.
- A recent Gallup poll found that 70% of employees reported that they were not actively engaged in their work.
- Which would you prefer: an employee that was naturally talented, or hard working?
- You have to be in a position for luck to happen – luck doesn’t wander around looking for a stumblebum.
- The single most important investment we can make is in ourselves – that is the only thing over which we have complete control.
- 65% of people spend their leisure time doing things they’d rather not be doing.
- “Know yourself – don’t accept your dog’s admiration as evidence that you are wonderful.” — Ann Landers
- Good enough never is.
- Efficiency is doing things right, whereas Effectiveness is doing the right things.
- It’s not the interruptions that waste our time, but the lag time afterwards when we try to get back on track.
- It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you’re already starting to drown.
- Organized people write things down; dangerously organized people can find them again.
- Be willing to hire and work with dissenting points of view; “I never learned anything from anyone who agreed with me.”
- Time is not an obstacle — it is an opportunity.
