Freedom from Urgency by Denis Waitley
Freedom from urgency… That’s what will allow us to live a rich and rewarding life. You may have thought your problem was “time starvation,” when in truth, it was in the way you assigned priorities in your decision-making process. Have you allowed the urgent to crowd out the important?
Each day we will continue to encounter deadlines we must meet and “fires,” not necessarily of our own making, we must put out. Endless urgent details will always beg for attention, time and energy. What we seldom realize is that the really important things in our life don’t make such strict demands on us, and therefore we usually assign them a lower priority.
It is because of your belief system that you are where you are in life right now. You have created your success or failure with the beliefs that you have established within yourself.
Most of us know how to manage our time. It is pretty simple really. What most of us miss are compelling reasons to manage our time. We know the “how” but miss the “why.” Here are six foundational reasons I have that motivate me to manage my time and myself properly.
Dunsmuir Shell is a large, profitable Shell station in Victoria, British Columbia. Mr. Dunsmuir has a unique approach which has enabled him to build a successful business.
This isn’t a trick question.
Sometimes, we get so busy competing against our competition that we forget to learn from them. We are trained to point out our own strengths and the weaknesses of our competition, but this only tells part of the story.
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