Doing this well is perhaps the #1 thing that separates people who accomplish what they want, from those who don't.

One of the hardest truths to acknowledge is that everyone has the same 24 hours a day. This is particularly hard for me. Especially when I look around at others who have accomplished so much!

Why do some people become so much more successful than other people, who also seek success?

People who are also single parents with broken down cars (e.g. Roseanne), people who had no money to start with, (e.g. Madonna, John Rockefeller, Bill Gates or Thomas Edison) and people who had WAY MORE failures than successes (did you know Abe Lincoln was defeated for office 10 times between 1831 and 1858, when he was finally elected President of the U.S. in 1860?)

Laser-like focus on the thing that you want, until you get what you want.

But, you say, how can I get laser-like focus when there's so much going on around me, so many things I must attend to just LIVING my life?

This is of course how everyone feels. Still, there's that gnawing fact that with that same 24 hours you have, others in similar situations are accomplishing things that you are not, that you want to accomplish, too. Ugh. So what to do?

Trick to getting laser like focus:

Around 100 years ago, Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, wanted to increase his own efficiency, and that of his key people at the steel company. A renowned 'efficiency expert' of the day, Ivy Lee, approached Mr. Schwab, and made a proposition Schwab could not refuse:

IVY LEE: I can increase your people's efficiency – and your sales – if you will allow me to spend fifteen minutes with each of your executives.

CHARLES SCHWAB: How much will it cost me?

LEE: Nothing, unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it's worth to you.

SCHWAB: It's a deal.

Mary Kay (Mary Kay Cosmetics) takes up the story...

The following day, Lee met with Schwab's top executives, spending only fifteen minutes with each in order to say: LEE: I want you to promise me that for the next ninety days, before leaving your office at the end of the day, you will make a list of the six most important things you have to do the next day and number them in their order of importance.

EXECs: That it?

LEE: That's it. Scratch off each item after finishing it, and go on to the next one on your list. If something doesn't get done, put it on the following day's list.

Mary Kay reports that:
"Each Bethlehem executive consented to follow Lee's instructions. Three months later, Schwab studied the results and was so pleased that he sent Lee a check for US$35,000. At the time, the average worker in the US was being paid $2 per day…

If Schwab, one of the smartest businessmen of his day, was willing to pay so much money for this advice, I decided I would follow it, too. …Each night, I put together my list for the following day. If I don't get something on my list accomplished, it goes on the next day's list. I put the hardest or most unappealing task at the top of the list. This way, I tackle the most difficult item first, and once it's out of the way, I feel my day is off to a good start."
- Mary Kay Ash 'You can have it all' pp. 68-69.

$35,000 question:
So, when are you writing up your list of 6 most important things and ranking them in order of importance? For your business? For your personal, spiritual or other lives?

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Insider tidbit:
Irwin Menken, President of Network Marketing Lifestyles, http://www.nmlifestyles.com explained to Ms Stud today why his cousin, Alan Menken, the Oscar winning Disney composer (e.g. 'Beauty and the Beast' sung by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson), made it so big in the music business, while Irwin himself, also a musician, did not:

"He (Alan Menken) just refused to do anything else."

What if you 'refused to do anything else' except #1 on your list, until it's done, then #2, then #3…

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