91    Remove Yourself From Mailing Lists 

We get inundated with paper as well as electronic reading material of all sorts. It seemed like a good idea at the time but when this material piles up and piles up, it can really clog up your desk, computer and mind. 

  If you don’t get to it within 30 days of receiving the material, the chances you will actual read it are pretty nil. Give some serious thought to getting off these list and subscriptions, free up your time for activities that still currently interest you. 

92    Its Not Enough Too Be Busy 

  Busy work is not necessarily good or productive work. Even putting in a good days work these days is not sufficient reason to celebrate. With pressures from all side to do more, get more done in a shorter period of time, better productivity, we have to ever vigilant about what we do with the limited time we have available to do it in. 

  It’s easy to get off track and get caught up in what I call the busy work, phones, filing, admin, paperwork, appointments, meetings, etc etc.  As important as these tasks are, you have to keep the ratio of doing these tasks in proportion to the tasks that move core issues forward. Balance is the key in this area. 

93    Start Thinking About Creating Your Own Culture 

  This is a little fancy for me, I don’t usually get into this territory but this one is a real issue. Over time you are going to develop a style, a way of going about doing things. You hear about companies creating there culture and how it helps them to clarify things. It would not hurt to give some thought to how you want to conduct yourself and how you want to inter act with those around you. 

  I have a specific style that some people find, what the word I’m looking for here …is. Hmm, how about irritating! That’s okay; the people who call me irritating are also some of my biggest fans so it works out in the end. 

94    Worrying is Very Hard Work and A Huge Time Waster 

 Of all the emotions we deal with, worrying can cause us the most grief. The problem with worrying is, in the end it accomplishes nothing, but leaves a lot of damage in its path. It’s not unlike a tornado leaving destruction in its path as it weaves its way through our lives. When we worry, we get stressed, when we are stressed out, we accomplish much less, do what we do not nearly as well, as normally and tend to get taken off our planned agenda. 

  When you analyze what worrying causes, you start to realize that working on reducing this emotion can, in one foul swoop head off a whole host of potential problems. Worrying comes from a lack of confidence in your self and the course of action you are embarking on. One way to help reduce this situation is to adopt a system or   program you feel works for you and install it into your every day operations. 

95    Is It Important or Is It Urgent? 

This question plays a big role in how you respond to issues that come up on a daily basis. The simplest way to separate them is this way; important is something you have to decide on. Urgent on the other hand is something some one else is trying to decide for you. For example, it’s important that you visit a specific customer of yours tomorrow.  On the other hand, some one comes into your office and says it urgent that you speak to them on a topic that you are totally unfamiliar with. Could be important to you but it certainly isn’t urgent as far as you are concerned.  Important is usually to the benefit to you, urgent to the person presenting the problem or issue to you. 

  A general rule of thumb, important, good, urgent bad, at least as far as you are concerned. 

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