Monday, April 29, 2013

Better to make Not To-Do List than To-Do List

<Personal Brand Column> Better to make Not To-Do List than To-Do List

Author of 'Good to Great', Jim Collins, said, "Made as much use of stop-doing lists as to-do lists. They displayed a remarkable discipline to unplug all sorts of extraneous junk."

As smartphone and other super new tech-devices have shown up, our brain spend huge amount of energy and time to keep coming new information in/out until going on the bed.

Probably symphathize.. Over 50% of people do as the first thing in office when they arrive in the early morning is spending time to watching internet news or other works unrelated to your office work. Things mostly happen unconsciously. In other words, it is a habit.

Then, what people should do to quit unproductive work and behavior? As Charles Duhigg, author of 'the Power of Habit', once said, "Consciously, people should imprint their unproductive works not to"

Please try to write down Not-To Do list, and then put it on your desk wall or somewhere you can see very well. Next thing to do is watch the list everyday consciously in every morning time. That's how it works.


For the last, here are the 3 tips for how to make Not-To Do List. (What contents should be in)
1. Energy : Is that make you active or not?
2. Time : Is it seem valuable to invest your time?
3. Strengths : Is it make your strength more sharp?

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