On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:29:33 GMT, "Wayne Lundberg"
pixelated:


"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
...
I think I hit a new record of being a full year late on a project....a
YEAR
---snip---

My secret to success is so simple that most people laugh it off, or it
simply goes in one ear and out the other, even if they are paying $125 an
hour for my lecturing them on how to improve their bottom line.

First, you must have a clear vision of what you want to have within a year,
two and three. You must believe this to be possible.
-snip-

Wayne, you have it down! Thank you for this. I'm going to
put it up on my office wall...maybe tomorrow.


Every morning you look at your lists and think of the plan and list the six
most important things that must be accomplished that day for it all to come
together.

I'm finally learning that lesson and am starting to get
things done around here.


Learn to delegate the URGENT stuff which are phone calls,
interruptions and stuff that is important to them, but not important to your

Just this year I'm letting the answering machine get any
call which comes when I'm focusing on something important.
It really does make a difference. And I avoid a helluva
lot of damned salescritters. That's a Win/Win, wot?


plan. This is a crucial test of character which few people can master since
most of us like being good-guys and since everybody knows that if you want
something done really quick, ask a busy person. Lose this!

Wow, I never stopped to think of it from that perspective.
People have been doing that to me for too many years.


Whenever you have time, go to http://home.att.net/~empresario/Index.htm and
read it bit by bit.

Hey, it's written by that famous Wayne Lundberg guy.
I had to look up "pareto analysis on the flay", analyze
that you had probably meant "fly", and go from there.
http://erc.msh.org/quality/pstools/pspareto.cfm clued
me in to a process I knew about but didn't know the name.

BTW, there are a few glitches in that site. Mixed PDF/HTM
pages, the patent/over40years page is misnamed (no suffix)
so it comes up as ascii+code. Better take a look.


Projects are the spice of life if you learn to master them and not be a
slave to them.

Too true.

P.S: I really meant that "Thanks!" above. You're quite
enlightened and those of us who get a glimpse of it are
appreciative.