ONE THING AT A TIME…

1. Being busy is not always effective.
2. Busy people work hard. Productive people work hard and smart.

Efficiency = Doing the tiny steps of a larger task quickly

Effectiveness = Finding the most optimal way to do something, perhaps even removing the need to do the task itself

1. Busy people get drowned in the details. Productive people keep their eyes on the macro and micro of the task.

Project Manager (leadership) is the best example of explaining this 

                      method of task completion and delegation. A project manager is someone                        

who identifies what the entire project needs to be completed. They also understand that they can’t spend all of their time doing “all of the tasks” themselves. A project manager will review, assign and follow up until completion of the main task, thus addressing both the macro and micro of the situation.  

1. Busy people say yes to everything. Productive people say/no choicefully 
2. Busy people are oftentimes too busy completing “YES” tasks. Meaning someone has asked you to do something and instead of you simply saying no, you’ve acquiesced and now you're stuck doing something that has nothing to do with your business goals.
3. You have to be strong enough to say yes when it is mutually beneficial or no when there is no value-add return for your business.

1. Story Time: (The time I had 4 STREAMS OF INCOME)... But I had to   decide which things to let go of because although I was busy, I was not being productive. 4 Streams of income (Just started my first hospice company) up and running making money but not enough to quit. (Adjunct Instructor of Psychology online) still teaching online courses for two different schools. (Consulting for startup hospice companies) and lastly, still working as a (Hospice Marketer for a large hospice company). 

1. How to do one thing at a time: “Listen to a piece of music several times. Note what you missed. Note the specific places where your mind wandered. Listen to the music again, as a whole piece, after several times of zeroing in on specific parts.Carve out the time to be still every day. Sit. Take a lazy walk. Sit. Don't expect immediate results, but trust that this stillness will seep more and more into mind and into busyness; it will steady and calm you”.(psychologytoday.com 2023).