How is Your Focus?

We all know that having the proper tools to move us forward and help us get the job done is one of the key elements of working smarter. So what tools do you use to keep yourself focused on high-payoff activities? Thomas Guide or GPS?

Do you become distracted easily by the numerous choices and directions you can go, or are you focused and directed - you know where you want to go and get there through the least path of resistance.

Knowing what your high-payoff activities are and what you have to do to achieve them doesn't necessarily mean you will get the results you had expected. You may, in fact, just end up with a headache and feeling overwhelmed with little or no results (or at least not the results you had intended).

Make a plan and stick to it:

1. Identify what the activities are that will achieve the pay-off you are looking for
2. Set your GPS for that direction
3. Avoid self-imposed detours
4. Focus on the outcome
5. Avoid over-committing yourself
6. Reward yourself for a well-planned road-trip to success!

It is better to trim-down and complete your task-list of high-payoff activities than to feel overwhelmed and incompetent by getting caught up in the busy side streets and road work.

I highly recommend using the GPS.

To your success!

Kathy Nesselroad
http://www.allypcs.com/
Ally Professional Coaching Services, LLC
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