The 4-Hour Handbook: Learn Proven Techniques to Hacking Your Life Today (4-hour workweek, 4-hour body, 4-hour chef, 4-hour work, 4-hour workweek in books)

Learn how you can concentrate on being great in a few, selected things and on being just good enough for the remaining parts of your life.

Remember, the objective is to free up your time so you can spend it on things that bring the most satisfaction and profits to you. Leverage on other people’s time.

Do not accept a meeting or conference call invitation without first receiving a clear agenda and a definite schedule.

Do not compensate being overwhelmed with working more.

No one can really tell you the surest way to success but the most certain way to failure is trying to satisfy everyone. Use the 80/20 or Pareto Principle by analyzing your customers in two ways – who are my top 20% customers who give me 80% of my profits and who are my top 20% customers who expend 80% of my time?

Think of ways on how you can increase your productivity per hour. Learn how to focus your attention to things that can really provide value and ignore the things that are unimportant or insignificant.

Do not answer phone calls from telephone numbers that you do not recognize.

Concentrate on completing your most important to-do items instead of wasting your time replying to emails. Make it a habit to read your emails only two or three times per day.

At the onset, set the “if-then rules” that the people you work with can follow for resolving all problems, except the biggest issues or problems. Give your teammates the liberty to perform their jobs without your assistance. Make sure that your rules and regulations are clearly documented in writing so they can refer to it when the need arises. At