"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." - William James

Today's TQ Challenge: Move Preoccupations to a More Appropriate Time.

1. Choose to be CONCENTRATED! How often do you lose concentration on the task at hand, because other unfinished tasks divert your focus?

2. Choose to be SINGLE-MINDED! If you take care of other unfinished projects by scheduling them into a specific time, can you then get on with the work at hand?

3. Choose to be FOCUSED! What unfinished business must you deal with now to be able to focus on the most important job at hand?

You can only think about one thing at a time. That one thing should be the most appropriate subject for your current circumstances. Preoccupations -- thinking about something other than the task at hand -- can waste a lot of time. Remove any concerns or competing thoughts by scheduling them to a more appropriate time. Set an appointment for the earliest time possible to resolve the concern or explore new options and opportunities.

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change." ~ Golnik Eric

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Through teamwork, you create synergy, i.e., the capacity to accomplish greater things together than each individual could alone.

Today's TQ Challenge: Actively Recruit Others to Help.

1. Choose to be COLLABORATIVE! Which areas of your work could you improve by collaborating with someone else?

2. Choose to be RESOURCEFUL! Are you doing a job right now that could be better done in concert with others?

3. Choose to be EXUBERANT! What on today's list would be more productive and fun if you did it in a team or partnership format?

There are many talented people who are ready, willing and able to contribute to your goals and projects. All you have to do is ask! All they need is your vision, direction and appreciation. Stop trying to be an army of one! Call in an expert. Collaborate with others. You'll be surprised at how much easier it is to accomplish your goals with the assistance of the right people. You'll get more done, the end product will be of a higher quality and you'll have more fun in the process.

"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do." ~ Albert Gray

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Here's a big idea. Identify the critical steps required to complete your most important activities and then create a well-oiled "machine" to crank out the rewards for you.

Today's TQ Challenge: Create Highly Productive Systems to do the Work FOR You.

1. Choose to be EFFECTIVE! What are the individual steps in your most productive activity?

2. Choose to be PROFICIENT! Are there any tools available that could automate more of your high payoff processes?

3. Choose to be SYSTEMATIC! Who could perform more of your critical steps so you can get paid off more often?

Every activity contains a series of steps that must be completed correctly to be successful. Systemize your success. Identify the critical steps required to complete your most productive and rewarding activities. Then, create a "well-oiled machine" to automatically crank out results for you. Systemize those steps through technology, checklists, delegation or by enrolling additional team members -- and you will achieve the results you expect -- far more often. Automate this Factor and you'll double, triple or even quadruple your productivity, efficiency and effectiveness.

"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." ~ James Ling

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If you want a project with a happy ending, first visualize a happy beginning, middle and end.

Today's TQ Challenge: Stop and Think Things Through -- BEFORE Taking Action.

1. Choose to be FORESIGHTFUL! How many times today did you allow events to control you?

2. Choose to be THOROUGH! Have you blocked time into your schedule today to deal with what is most important to you?

3. Choose to be PREPARED! Is tomorrow's agenda prioritized, scheduled and ready to rock and roll?

By thinking through each project -- both forwards and backwards -- you can visualize the proper sequence of events required to achieve major objective -- in the fewest number of steps possible. You can also prevent time-consuming mistakes by eliminating inappropriate steps, while including others that will be more effective and productive. When you can see what needs to be done -- well before you start -- you can remove the obstacles and bottlenecks to your progress -- well BEFORE they occur!

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." ~ Plato

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Predict your success by doing everything possible to be successful.

Today's TQ Challenge: Commit to Actually DOING Whatever It Takes -- Then DO It.

1. Choose to be CONFIDENT! What's one more thing you can do to insure the ultimate success of the project you're working on?

2. Choose to be OPTIMISTIC! To virtually guarantee your success in your current project, what's one more thing you could do?

3. Choose to be SELF-RELIANT! What are three more things you can do to assure your success on what you're going to do next?

Success is the direct result of taking the right actions, the right way, at the right time for the right reasons. Understand this and you can take on anything with confidence. Just discover what the right actions are and do them. Your success isn't limited by past mistakes -- but by your willingness to take the right actions right now! If you have no confidence in your ability, you won't even try. But, if you're committed to do whatever it takes until you get it right -- you will eagerly proceed with the confidence to succeed.

"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Go for what you really want in life. It will put a smile in your heart and a bounce in your step!

Today's TQ Challenge: Live Each of Your Top 10 Core Personal Values -- Every Day.

1. Choose to be DEVOTED! Do you find yourself focused most often on the difficulties or on the vision?

2. Choose to be COMMITTED! How did you approach today's difficult tasks?

3. Choose to be INSPIRED! What are you raring to attack next?

A testament is something that provides tangible proof. The actions you take and the results you produce are living proof of what's most important to you. The only evidence of whether you value something is if you make it a part of your life. There's no getting around this. For you to live your values, they have to show up somewhere other than a framed mission statement on the wall. They deserve to be a part of the legacy of results you leave behind at the end of each day.

"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning." ~ Dennis the Menace

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Conclusion: The ratio of what you have the right to EXPECT over your ability to EXECUTE governs everything you will ever be, do and have in life.

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If you want to actually LIVE a life
of happiness, satisfaction and significance...

If you want to achieve your most heartfelt goals...

Get with the program...

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If not, why not?

This week, we will focus on the power of crystal-clear expectations.

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Does the WHY within your goals light that inner-fire within you? Do you have the VOLITION, DEDICATION and MOTIVATION to overcome the obstacles, roadblocks and bottlenecks that you will undoubtedly encounter?

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