76 Drive The Agenda 

  You will hear this cry a lot in the PTS, I hope you heed it. The people who ends up driving there agenda on a regular basis will be the people who are successful in the end. There are so many advantages to being the person who sets the agenda, whether it is at work, in your business or on the job, you can’t be without this strategic edge and hope to do as well as you should do. Driving the agenda simply means that when you up beside another person, thing, event, activity, that the end result is, you will prevail and they will not. It can be as simple as telephone call at an inopportune time, an unexpected appointment shows up. It can be as complex as your 4 month project takes precedent over someone else’s 4 month project. 

    Driving the agenda means you set the pace of the race, you decide the order of the cars, you decide who kicks first in over time. You can see the advantages to the person who makes all of those decisions. 

  77 Time Management and Productivity, Joined At The Hip 

  It was hard to write the PTS and not stray off course and talk about Productivity. Time Management is all about action and action is all about Productivity, getting the most done in the shortest period of time. (a simplified definition for now) WE deal with Productivity in much more detail on our site dedicated to Productivity. 

Powerproductivitymaximizer.com  

The point of both sites is to give people the tool’s and knowledge to get the most out of their lives and to be as happy as possible with the results they get. I feel the way to accomplish both is to get control of the blocks of your time and then get a much done inside those blocks of time as possible. 

  78 Listen Just Long Enough 

  Someone walks into your office, place of business, your work station and starts what looks like a long tirade, what you do. There are many variables and different endings but the one most likely to happen, should happen is this. First and foremost, you want to establish how you are going to conduct your business, from this point on. You want to set the tone, and yes, you want to drive the agenda. For this reason alone, you listen for a very short period of time, then you interrupt and state, the appropriate time to hear what they have to say is, based on the jest of the message, set a time that makes sense based on what they were allowed to say. 

  You can not reward behavior that perpetuates unsound business practices for every one involved. 

  79   He Did Not Plan To Fail, He Just Failed To Plan 

  WE have all heard this old chestnut I’m sure. Its sage advice and very true. No one wants to fail at anything. That’s not an excuse for allowing behavior that lets failure exist to happen. We have a great System here, 1,000’s of people have used it and had varying degrees of great success with it. There have been those who used the System and were not successful with it. Was it the System or there lack of application of the System. That’s a question you have to ask those individuals who were not successful with our System.  

  The direction of this point is this, regardless of what direction you go in, there will have to be some form of organized plan if place if you are to succeed to the degree you should. That is the rub, success is relative, you should want and strive not only for success, but for the maximum amount that you are capable of achieving. Half way up the mountain isn’t really success for you if you are capable of reaching the top of the mountain. 

  80 O.H.I.O. 

  That’s short form for Only Handle It Once. How many times have you moved the same piece of paper from one side of your desk  to the other side, back and forth trying to  Get into the routine of only handling it once. 4 things to do with it, toss it, do it, file it, delegate it. Use these 4 steps as a way to handle these troublesome bits and pieces and 95% of them will fit into one of the 4 categories. 

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