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How to improve your personal effectiveness
Your personal effectiveness is a measure of your ability to add value to yourself and others.
How can you improve your personal effectiveness?
How can you improve your personal effectiveness and thus make yourself produce more valuable work, per day, in less time and effort?
That is a good question.
Let us answer it.
Let us say first that personal effectiveness is the product of:
Doing all the right things, in the right way, at the right time.
The above statements give us three major lines of inquiry.
Let us answer each of these three questions and see what we can discover.
In order to improve your personal effectiveness, what are the right things for you to be doing?
Answer: Do only those things that are consistent with your goal
Do not do anything that is inconsistent with your goal.
Personal effectiveness implies the achievement of a goal.
You are deemed to be personally effective to the degree to which you are able to achieve the goals that you are given, or those which you set for yourself.
If you are able to achieve goals, then you are deemed to be personally effective.
If you are not able to achieve goals, then you are deemed not to be personally effective.
Therefore, to be effective you must do those things that are consistent with your goals.
That implies two other attributes:
Let us assume that you do know what your goal is, and that you are, indeed, intelligent enough to know what actions are necessary to achieve the goal.
Your personal effectiveness, then, is a measure of how much you apply yourself, solely, to those tasks that are connected to your goal and do not allow yourself to become too easily distracted, waylaid, taken off track or enticed off your chosen path.
It means that you stay focused only on those things that are consistent with your goal.
It means that you have the will power to stay committed to the goal and to have sufficient personal initiative to stick with it over an extended period of time.
Personal effectiveness requires that you are doing things in the right way.
The right way, in this context, means:
To the required standard or better, and
In the most efficient manner possible
To the required standard or better means that you must do all you can to do the best you can do.
Question: Do you do the best you can do, or not?
Do you have a tendency to do the least you can get away with? Do you use the phrase, “”Oh, that will do. Let’s put the kettle on“”.
Are you a person who does it right. Or not.
Your personal effectiveness is a partly a measure of your willingness to do your best work.
Your personal ineffectiveness is partly a measure of your willingness to skive off.
In the most efficient manner possible.
The most efficient manner possible means that you are always looking for a better way.
If we assume that technology is always advancing, therefore, the methods of doing any task are always changing. So, for example, if you wanted to send a message to London, in 1800, you had to send a messenger to either run, or ride, to London carrying your message.
In 2013 if you want to send a message to London you could send a runner on a horse with your message or
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By Chris Farmer's Personal Development PodcastHow to improve your personal effectiveness
Your personal effectiveness is a measure of your ability to add value to yourself and others.
How can you improve your personal effectiveness?
How can you improve your personal effectiveness and thus make yourself produce more valuable work, per day, in less time and effort?
That is a good question.
Let us answer it.
Let us say first that personal effectiveness is the product of:
Doing all the right things, in the right way, at the right time.
The above statements give us three major lines of inquiry.
Let us answer each of these three questions and see what we can discover.
In order to improve your personal effectiveness, what are the right things for you to be doing?
Answer: Do only those things that are consistent with your goal
Do not do anything that is inconsistent with your goal.
Personal effectiveness implies the achievement of a goal.
You are deemed to be personally effective to the degree to which you are able to achieve the goals that you are given, or those which you set for yourself.
If you are able to achieve goals, then you are deemed to be personally effective.
If you are not able to achieve goals, then you are deemed not to be personally effective.
Therefore, to be effective you must do those things that are consistent with your goals.
That implies two other attributes:
Let us assume that you do know what your goal is, and that you are, indeed, intelligent enough to know what actions are necessary to achieve the goal.
Your personal effectiveness, then, is a measure of how much you apply yourself, solely, to those tasks that are connected to your goal and do not allow yourself to become too easily distracted, waylaid, taken off track or enticed off your chosen path.
It means that you stay focused only on those things that are consistent with your goal.
It means that you have the will power to stay committed to the goal and to have sufficient personal initiative to stick with it over an extended period of time.
Personal effectiveness requires that you are doing things in the right way.
The right way, in this context, means:
To the required standard or better, and
In the most efficient manner possible
To the required standard or better means that you must do all you can to do the best you can do.
Question: Do you do the best you can do, or not?
Do you have a tendency to do the least you can get away with? Do you use the phrase, “”Oh, that will do. Let’s put the kettle on“”.
Are you a person who does it right. Or not.
Your personal effectiveness is a partly a measure of your willingness to do your best work.
Your personal ineffectiveness is partly a measure of your willingness to skive off.
In the most efficient manner possible.
The most efficient manner possible means that you are always looking for a better way.
If we assume that technology is always advancing, therefore, the methods of doing any task are always changing. So, for example, if you wanted to send a message to London, in 1800, you had to send a messenger to either run, or ride, to London carrying your message.
In 2013 if you want to send a message to London you could send a runner on a horse with your message or