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Modern Mentor

304 GID How Small Changes Can Lead to Big Time Savings

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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If you examine your workday carefully, you may find that very minor time delays are actually eating up much of your productivity. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2jshV4I

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.1

In the best Batman movie ever made, 1966's Batman The Movie, the supervillains turned the United Nations Security Council into dust by dehydrating them.

0:18.7

And they just add a bit of water and poof, they reappear.

0:21.4

It's an entire human being and a handful of powder with just a bit of water needed to recreate

0:25.5

the whole human.

0:27.3

Sometimes, what seems to be a foolish decision can be an amazingly good decision.

0:32.1

It all depends on your ability to realize that little things add up a lot.

0:37.1

When I'm working with coaching clients,

0:38.8

we often need to help them find time

0:40.6

to pursue the new initiatives in their lives,

0:42.9

and often the new time comes from very small changes.

0:46.5

A few weeks ago, my seven-year-old computer died.

0:49.2

It was old, it was pokey, programs took several seconds to launch,

0:52.9

maybe twice an hour I'd switch applications,

0:55.2

and I'd get the cute spinning beach ball for 30 seconds while the new application fired up.

0:59.6

And woe is me if I had to switch back and forth between mail word processing and diagram programs.

1:05.4

The beach ball and I, we bonded, we were BFFs, emphasis on the forever.

1:11.6

When the system died, I screamed and screamed and screamed in delight, because now I had an excuse to buy a new computer.

1:19.9

I ran right out to the Apple store and snagged a nice new IMac. Only this time, I spent the extra few hundred dollars for lots of memory and a really fast,

1:28.8

hard drive.

1:30.1

Boom!

1:30.9

Major, life, change, instantly.

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