Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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- The Roots of Poor Performance
- The Effect of Habit
| Join the Top 20 Percent The 80/20 rule seems to apply to the world of work. Twenty percent of people are on the fast track, continually increasing their value, moving up, and earning more money. Eighty percent of working people in all fields are timeservers. They come to work at the last possible minute and leave at the first possible minute. While they are there, they use their time poorly in comparison with the people on the fast track. According to Robert Half International, fully 50 percent of working time is wasted. Most working time is wasted in idle chitchat with coworkers. It is wasted in nonstop electronic distractions, answering e-mail, going on and off social media, replying to texts, and answering telephone calls. The average person, including managers, checks his email forty-five times a day. People waste their time by coming in late, leaving early, and taking extended coffee and lunch breaks. They read the newspaper, take care of personal business, and generally function at a low level of performance. The Roots of Poor Performance Why is this It is largely the result of habits formed early in life. The first exposure to work is when the child goes to school for the first time. The child is surrounded by other children of his or her same age. What do you do with children of your same age You play! From the age of five or six, school becomes the primary play place for the child. Over the years, the child evolves through the school system, primarily focused on social interaction and playing with the other kids, before school, during school, after school, and on weekends. Then the young adult finishes school and goes to work for the first time. The first thing he sees when he looks around at his new job is other people his same age. What do you do with other people your same age You play! The Effect of Habit As a result of habit, almost automatically, work becomes an extension of school. It becomes the primary play place in adult life. It is estimated that the average person does not really start work until about 11:00 am. and then begins to slowdown and wrap up the day at about 3:30 pm. In between, he spends most of his time playing with his friends. But this is not for you. Wasting your time and playing with your friends all daylong is for people who have little or no future. But you are different. You see success and accomplishment at work as your springboard to achieving your goals and accomplishing everything you want in life. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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