...on Time Management

Hey all!

I pray that everyone had a wonderful holiday! As we get ready for the New Year, we begin to reflect on the events of the past year, and plan what we're going to do different in the new year. One thing that I want to do differently is manage my time better. This doesn't necessary mean keeping a calendar, but choosing the things that are most beneficial for me to accomplish first. The general manager at the Georgia Dome, Carl Adkins, sent this out to us today, and I feel that it entails everything that I want to do in this next year. I hope you enjoy!

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Excerpted from Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy

There’s an old saying that says, “If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!”


The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the “Pareto Principle” after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the “vital few,” the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the “trivial many,” the bottom 80 percent.

He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.

Number of Tasks versus Importance of Tasks
Here is an interesting discovery. Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others.

Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first.

Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, “Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?”

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin to work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually.

Motivate Yourself
Just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is having control over what you do next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well.

Old Blog - But gives you insight about me

So, I found this old blog on my myspace page, and thought it would be a good "Getting to know you" thing... ENJOY!
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My girl Diana tagged me and now I am forced to share things that turn me off so here goes....

1. Nasty teeth... please go to the dentist twice a year, and hook that up! And just because mama and 'nem didn't take you when you were growing up, doesn't mean that you are excused for doing the same thing.

2. Unkept hair... if you have a low-cut, go get that handled every week or two. If you have twists, re-twist the new growth. Whatever the case is, keep it up.

3. Men with long fingernails... if you really want my teeth to clinch, let me see you with nails that are way above your fingertips. I CAN'T STAND IT! In my personal opinion, long nails on men look unsanitary, and I do not want you touching me with those claws!

4. Smoking... okay, I know a few folks are throwing tomatos at their computer screens as they read, but damn it, I can't stand smoke! I don't like to smell it, I don't want to taste it, and I don't like it in my hair and clothes! UGH.

5. Too clingy... MAN, GET SOME BUSINESS. Let me breathe.

6. No goals... I'm a goal-orientated person, and a person with no goals is going NOWHERE. Thus, you can't hang with me. Have a purpose.

7. Men with the "video" syndrome... I can't stand a man who has to have what they see all the idiots wearing, driving, or whatever in a video. Look, it's one thing to wear a shirt, or even buy a suit like Puffy. But when you walk out looking WACK with your five FAKE platinum chains, a sports coat with a polo underneath, two-toned converses, and a FAKE ass goblet filled with Patron (or whatever the popular drink is today)... you are playing yourself, Clown. Get your own personal style, and stop trying to imitate folks that you can't and will never, be!

That's all for now... if I think of more, I'll let you know.

It's Just Me...

Hey all!

This is just an introduction into what this blog is about. Really, it's only my thoughts, opinions, or comments about things that happen around the globe. It will be hilarious on one day, and serious the next. I am just a person who likes to express herself through writing. So come hang with me, and let's talk! Feel free to respond at will. Thanks for stopping by!

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