1366 | Brian Tracy: “What is The Most Valuable Use of My Time Right Now?"
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
On today’s QOD, Brian Tracy reveals how concentration is the #1 key to your productivity and effectiveness. If you’re not working on your top, most important priorities, you’re wasting your time. Identify those top priorities and have the discipline to execute on them — one at a time — every day. If it’s not worth your time, it’s not worth doing. Get it done. Fast.
Source: Brian Tracy - 10 Keys to a More Powerful Personality (VHS)
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOT is what is the most valuable use of my time right now? |
| 0:07.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back to the QOT of the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:38.0 | We got Brian Tracy wrapping up our weekend today. He's going to talk about time management |
| 0:45.0 | and one of the major keys for unlocking your productivity and your effectiveness. |
| 0:50.0 | Brian Tracy is coming up. |
| 0:55.0 | The next letter C stands for concentration. Concentration. I think that the ability to focus in concentration |
| 1:01.0 | or the two keys to success in life. The ability to focus clearly and know exactly what it is you want to accomplish |
| 1:06.0 | and the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on accomplishing that one thing without diversion or distraction |
| 1:11.0 | are the keys to success. |
| 1:14.0 | It's the number one key to effectiveness is to be able to sit down and look at your work and use the 80-20 rule. |
| 1:20.0 | Say to yourself, which is the 20% of the number of things that I have to do that account for 80% of the value of my work |
| 1:26.0 | and always work on the top 20%. You see, in life, there's never enough time to do everything, |
| 1:31.0 | but there's always enough time to do the important things. Instead of doing what is fun and easy, which is what most people do. |
| 1:36.0 | Or they do, they make a list of everything they have to do, and then they start at the bottom of the list, |
| 1:40.0 | and they work on the irrelevant things. At the end of the day, they haven't got anything done. |
| 1:44.0 | Successful people, peak performers concentrate on the top items, and remember anything other than working on the top items on your list |
| 1:51.0 | is a waste of your time, and time management is not just time management, time management is life management. |
| 1:56.0 | You can do anything you want with your life if you will manage your time properly. |
| 2:00.0 | We all have the same 24 hours a day, and the ability to concentrate, concentrate, concentrate to discipline yourself, |
| 2:05.0 | to use willpower and perseverance to concentrate on one thing at a time is a quality of all success. |
| 2:12.0 | Nothing great has ever been accomplished without the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing at a time. |
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