Brian Tracy explains how to cut stress by controlling your time. Ask yourself what one task would have the greatest impact, then do it first. Stay focused by repeating 'back to work' until it's done.
Hi. Let's talk about the key to taking control. Stress management requires that you take complete control over the activities of your daily life. This means that you plan your day, set priorities and work on high value tasks. The indispensable key to time management is concentration. This is the ability to focus single mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and to stay with it until it's 100% complete. This is not only the hardest challenge that a manager faces, but the ability to concentrate single mindedly is probably the rarest single quality in the workplace. Most of our important tasks take large chunks of time. We need to plan and organize our days in such a way that we allocate these chunks of time so that we can do the jobs upon which our success depends. The wonderful thing about setting priorities and concentrating single mindedly is that the very minute that you do these two things, you'll begin to feel a tremendous sense of control and well being. As you work progressively toward the accomplishment of your most important tasks, you'll feel a flow of energy and enthusiasm. As you finish something that's relevant and significant to your company and to yourself. You get a burst of energy, your self esteem improves, you feel good about yourself. You have a wonderful sense of making measurable progress toward greater success in your career. You feel like you're making a real difference. Now here are two ideas you can use immediately to concentrate single mindedly on the highest value use of your time. First, analyze your work before you begin and then ask yourself this what one thing, if I did it quickly and well, would have the greatest impact on my work? Whatever your answer, go to work on that one item immediately. Second, once you have begun on a high value task, discipline yourself by repeating over and over back to work, back to work, back to work. This will keep you focused and on track until you finish the job. I hope you've enjoyed this video on how to manage stress by taking control of your daily activities. If you did, please subscribe to my channel and share this video with others.
