Good Morning,
Isn’t amazing what we can get accomplished when we have our backs to the wall. The chores we do in the morning which take us half an hour can be done in under five minutes if we push it. The quality suffers a little bit, and the stress levels are a bit higher, but some of our best work is done in situations when we have an abbreviated deadline.
Zig Ziglar talks about how people can get more accomplished in the day before a vacation then any other day of the week. When we impose a deadline on ourselves, our internal sense of urgency increases and we pick up our pace.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just turn on these turbo charged selves whenever we needed to?
The truth is that we can and we often do.
The challenge though is we often do not choose to turn on the afterburners, they are turned on for us by outside situations usually in response to something or someone else. For example, our plans to spend 30 minutes to organize our office are changed when a call comes in and we talk for ten minutes. Now we have to do the job we planned to do in 30 minutes in 20 minutes.
Most of the time, we do it. Sure we get a bit upset, say some interesting phrases, but when all is said and done, the job we were going to do in 30 minutes gets down in 20 or less.
Once again we face Parkinson’s Law, where our activities will take up as much time as we give them. If we give the task an hour, the job takes an hour. If we give it 30 minutes, etc.
If we change the way we think to shorten our deadlines, on our own terms, then we can pick up our own pace and do more work in less time, without the added stress of something exterior pushing in on us.
We might just free up some valuable time in our days if we get good at this.
Try it!
Enjoy!
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