High performers share what they really want of life,

and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Croxon.com today's episode is brought to you by the

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and he is closing out the week with three of his six steps to becoming a high performer.

Here's Brendan.

How many of you know you could be more productive, raise your hands and be honest.

Okay, start figuring out right now what we call PQO. PQO sense for prolific, big word,

prolific quality output. High performers have figured out what would make them not only

effective but sometimes wealthy, sometimes well known, sometimes more well respected,

but I figured out what's the quality output that really matters and then they go all in.

It's the story of Steve Jobs coming back to Apple after he was fired and seeing over 20

product lines and saying this is too much, cleared the decks and we're going to focus on

these five things. That's it. That's what brought us the first iPod, then the iPhone,

then the iPad, then the Mac Pro. All that build was because he came in and he cleared

houses, what is our PQO? He didn't use that language but that's essentially what we

found. All high performers actually do. They figure out what's the stuff that we need

to produce, right? Remember, the root of productivity is produce. So busy work is not the same

as your life's work. You got to figure out your life's work. What is the things that

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