The Art of Efficiency

the art of efficiency

when we think about the color green what

are some things that come to mind

for some of us it’s vegetables some of

us it’s money

for others it’s the environment

the most common denominator of all of

these things are basically

a better quality of life think about

health think about life think about

wealth

think about growth when we think about

the color green and

innovation innovation is always

a result of efficiency in order to be

innovative you have to have a desire

to do something better so what is

efficiency

efficiency is achieving maximum

productivity

with minimum wasted effort or expense

or working in a well-organized competent

way

i was on my way here to chicago

and i was you’re going to use the apple

map but apple

gave me a different route than what

google maps had gave me

and i was trying to figure out why would

apple give me the longest route

when i could have just taken 55 and came

straight on and got off

at a certain point and this happens all

the time

in life we have a certain goal that we

want to

accomplish and we try to figure out well

how can i get there

in the most productive way without using

so much effort

so all of us sometimes can have a plan

we can have goals we have things that we

desire to do

but we don’t always have the right

execution

or we’re not as efficient as we could be

so let’s talk about the art

of efficiency so first of all we must

set goals

if you don’t know where you’re going you

cannot make a plan

so you must first know what is your

desired outcome

what is your desired result that you

want once you know

exactly what you want you set that goal

you must then come up with

an efficient plan an efficient plan

requires a lot of research

it requires a lot of studying on how you

want to accomplish it because of course

again

there’s so many different ways to do and

get a result

for some of us to get here we may have

taken 290.

for some of us we took 55. for some of

us we took

an even better route than maybe the

navigation don’t know that we know

just on our own so you must have a plan

once you set your goal

once you have that plan you must know

how to execute

that plan efficiently

so this is how we put this into practice

so we already made our efficient plan

so we must set deadlines for ourselves

if you want to become efficient you have

to set a deadline

for yourself because if not you’re going

to just be using and wasting a lot of

time if you don’t give yourself

some type of deadline you must have a

deadline in order to be efficient

also in order to be efficient you must

set milestones you don’t want to get

from point a

to point z without any milestones in the

middle

my favorite sports team used to be the

new england patriots

bill belichick and when i watched bill

belichick he literally

sets a game plan and it literally

changes from week to week

because he know in order to accomplish

the ultimate goal of winning a super

bowl

he must first make sure he for one make

the playoffs

in order to make the playoffs you must

win a certain amount of games

and every week is going to be different

so when you set your milestones you’re

going to know

i have to do this to get to this point

take a rest

and then continue on you don’t want to

just do everything

in one shot so set those deadlines and

set

milestones next you need to have

accountability partners

somebody that holds you accountable to

what you are doing

because if you try to do it alone you’ll

sometimes find yourself

just running all over the place or you

get complacent

you don’t meet your own deadlines you

don’t meet your own milestones so having

somebody that’s accountable

that wants the same result that you want

helps you to stay

efficient not only that

but with your deadlines with your

milestones

with having accountability partners you

also want to take rest

and i know a lot of us we love to grind

and we love

to make sure that we get it done we

don’t want to stop until we get it done

but in order to be efficient you must

make sure that you’re rested

or you’ll be no good for your um desired

result or your desired goal so you have

to make sure

that you’re taking rest as well that’s a

big key

in being efficient so you can rejuvenate

even in a sports game

it’s not just straight from 12 minutes

all the way to the end of the game they

have different quarters they have a half

time

they have timeouts where you can regroup

inside of the game plan

so make sure you take those proper rests

in order to continue to be efficient

also when it comes to efficiency once

you have your deadlines once you have

your milestones you have your

accountability partner you are

taking the proper rest you also don’t

want to multitask too much you want to

stay free

from distractions this is what makes you

efficient a lot of times we find

ourselves

doing so many different tasks at one

time to where we may drop the ball

on one task over the other so you want

to make sure you’re doing one task

at a time and not trying to multitask

while doing

a specific thing so that’s what’s going

to make you

efficient so you have your deadlines you

have

your milestones you have your

accountability partner

you also have your rest periods and

you’re not trying to do too much

at one time

all in all we all have a formula of

achieving

we all have the formula to success but

we need the art

of efficiency all right once you begin

to

um have this formula you have to really

know how to execute this formula

how to really know and master the art of

being

efficient because again there’s so many

different ways that you can

come to the same result but which

plan which execution is going to give

you the most

out of your time without you wasting so

much time

so if you don’t take anything else just

make sure that you use

maximum effort and don’t try not to

waste

too many resources make sure that you

know exactly what you need

how you need to get there have your

milestones

make sure you got your deadlines and

you’ll be efficient but again it’s

over it’s a constant process that’s why

when you’ve seen the map

it’s going to be a constant rotation

you’re always making adjustments

week to week or or milestone a milestone

deadline to deadline

you’re making in-progress um assessments

as well as making your

adjustments so we have the formula of

achieving but we need the art of

efficiency