Pastor, business owner, speaker, and author, the late Mark Yarnell, offered his recipe for productivity and success. He said, “Work on one thing at a time. Do it right. Finish it.”
Simple. But not always easy to follow.
Working on one thing at a time is difficult for a lot of people. But it’s easy to see the value of doing so. Numerous studies prove that multi-tasking is inefficient to the extreme. Fortunately, there are strategies and tools aplenty that can help us to curb this habit.
“Do it right” certainly makes sense, but we must recognize that the way we learn to do it right is usually by first doing it wrong.
This leads to the third piece of advice, to finish what we start. That’s the key to making everything work.
When we finish what we start, we can move onto something else. No chance for multi-tasking. We’ve also learned something so the next time we do it, we should do it better.
Finishing is the “Big Kahuna” of productivity. The more things you finish, the more you accomplish. The more you accomplish, the more likely you are to succeed.
Author Philip Roth said, “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progressâ€. What have you started but not finished?
Before you go looking for new ideas and new projects, you might want to dust off some of the half-finished projects lurking on your hard drive or in the recesses of your brain and finish them. Then go work on something else.
Dust off your marketing plan
