The value of your attention
Saturday, January 28, 2006
The value of your attention
Sometimes you can move ahead more quickly by slowing down.
Often you can get more accomplished by being less busy.<P>
When you rush quickly through a task, without taking the
time to get it right, what have you accomplished? When you
hurry through life so frantically that you can't keep track
of where you are, what value does that bring you?<P>
When you try to do too many things at once, you're sending
yourself a subtle, yet powerful, negative message. You're
telling yourself that not one of those efforts, by itself,
is worthy of your undivided attention.<P>
Similarly, when you rush through a task, you're sending
yourself a message that the task is not worthy of your time.
If you have no respect for what you're doing, it won't
produce much value, no matter how quickly or in what
quantity you do it.<P>
To achieve maximum value, work quickly enough to get it done
and slowly enough to do it right. Before taking on a new
task, be sure that you have enough quality time to give it
your full attention.<P>
Stop wasting so much energy rushing from one thing to the
next and back again. And you'll have more than enough time
to create real, lasting value.<P>
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