book: Reinvention: by Brian Tracy

 Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life: Tracy, Brian: 9780814413463: Amazon.com: Books

"If you knew you couldn't fail, what is the greatest thing you would dare to dream? Is the job you now have the one you've always wanted? Do you work with the kind of people you'd like to work with? As personal success expert Brian Tracy can attest, it's not until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present that you can move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is possible for you. And it is possible. In Reinvention, Brian Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can remake ourselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives."

Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life by Brian Tracy - Leadershop @ LeadershipNow.com

Introduction – Your World in Transition
1 You Are Remarkable
2 Who Are You?
3 What Do You Want?
4 What Are You Worth?
5 How to You Get the Job You Want--In Any Economy
6 How Do You Get Ahead?
7 How Do You Get the Most out of Yourself?
Summary: What Do You Do Now?

SUMMARY What Do You Do Now? | Reinvention @learning.oreilly.com

We are living in the greatest time in all of human history. There are no limits to what you can accomplish except for the limits that you place on yourself. Your job is to become one of the most productive people in your field. Your goal is to develop the reputation for being the person who, when anyone wants or needs something done, gets the job done.

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

1. Why are you on the payroll? Of all the things you’ve been hired to do, which one is most important?

2. What one skill, if you were absolutely excellent at it, would help you the most in your career?

3. What are some of the activities or tasks in your life that you should delegate, downsize, or eliminate?

4. If you could reinvent yourself today, with no limitations, what would you do differently?

5. What are the most important projects that you should get finished as soon as possible?

6. What are the things that only you can do that, if done well, can make a real difference in your work and personal life?

7. What are you going to start doing, or stop doing, immediately as the result of what you have learned in this book?

THE ABCDE METHOD TO SET PRIORITIES

1. An A item is something that is very important. This is a task that you must do, something that has serious consequences for either doing it or not doing it. Put an A next to the top tasks on your list.

2. A B item is something that you should do but it is not as important as an A item. There are only mild consequences associated with doing it or not doing it. Returning a phone call or checking your e-mail would fall into this category. Put a B next to these items on your list.

3. A C item is something that would be nice to do, but for which there are no consequences at all. Phoning a friend, going for coffee, or chatting with a co-worker are all things that are nice to do but they have absolutely no consequences for your career or your success.

The rule is that you should never do a B item when there is an A item left undone. You should never do a C item when there is a B item left undone. You must be very disciplined about this.

4. A D item is an item that you delegate or outsource to someone else. The rule is that you should delegate everything that you possibly can to free up more time for you to concentrate on your A activities.

5. The letter E stands for eliminate. These are items that are of such low value that you could eliminate them completely and they would make no difference to your success at your job.

The discipline of eliminating low-value tasks can simplify your life and free up more time for you to accomplish those tasks that can have the greatest possible consequences for you.

THE 80/20 RULE

The 80/20 Rule, the Pareto principle, is one of the most important and powerful of all time-management principles. This rule divides all activities into what Pareto called “the vital few” and “the trivial many.” This law says that 20 percent of the things you do, the vital few, will account for fully 80 percent of the value of everything you do.

SINGLE-HANDLING WITH KEY TASKS

Make a list of everything you have to do. Select the most important item on your list, the highest-value use of your time. Then, start work on that most important task and discipline yourself to stay at it until it is 100 percent complete.

Quote

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,

and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,

he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
—HENRY DAVID THOREAU