The educational system inadvertently instills in everyone a faulty idea of productivity–one where all assignments can be completed by semester’s end and everything has a hard deadline. In the world of work, it’s critical to…
Casey’s eTip: Redefine Productivity Success
If you measure your progress by how long your to-do list is, you doom yourself to chronic frustration. In the world of work, to-do’s and projects are endless and almost always exceed capacity. A better success measure is prioritizing well. You succeed when you do what’s most important and let the rest fall by the wayside. Effective prioritization also ensures that you do what’s important yet non-urgent, which means preventing fires instead of putting them out all day long. Redefining success in this way will increase your fulfillment and resilience.
This eTip brought to you by the Drive and Goal-setting/Prioritization links in your Productivity Chain.
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