This is not to say that all time debts are bad. Perhaps you enjoy serving on your school committee or volunteering with a local organization. However, when you make these commitments, you are also creating a time debt that you will have to pay at some point. Sometimes the debts we commit to are worth sacrificing for, many times they are not.
The Ivy Lee Method: 1. At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.2. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.3. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to... See more
After three months, Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000 (equivalent to $400,000 in 2015)
“In the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.