Efficiency

Productivity Principle 5…

"The men who succeed are the efficient few."
Author: Herbert N. Casson

Organization is about orderliness: "a place for everything, and everything in its place".

Being efficient is something quite different…

Efficiency means cutting waste out of your way and doing things right. Even when conditions aren't perfect, or things aren't 100% perfectly ordered.

When you have Efficiency you have power to both quickly see and quickly do the one best way to get something done.

With Efficiency – Your focus is on getting things done… not keeping things tidy.

SUCCESS, in short, is a matter of quickly finding and quickly doing 'the one best way'.

And that is what efficiency allows – regardless of being 'organized' or not.

Think about it…

Why should we go to any extra effort to accomplish something when there is an easier way.

Einstein also once said

'Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler'.

Einstein may have learned about efficiency from the worlds first ever course in personal and business efficiency… published by the Emerson Institute of Efficiency as far back as the 1920s!)…

It seems to have been lost until 2007, when I stumbled across it during researching into the roots of 'get organized' theory and technique.

Here are some notes from my personal diary about Efficiency:

1. ONLY put in enough energy and effort to achieve what really matters to you – don't waste your time or energy.
2. Arrange your life around things that are important to your success and satisfaction.
3. Don't fret over the small stuff. And have a way to confidently know what is small stuff and what is big stuff.
4. Be organized ONLY enough that you can find everything you need or want – when you need or want it. (Don't 'over organize')

Face facts…

You will never be caught up… you will never be 'organized'

It's painfully obvious… You will always have things that could be better arranged, better developed, better managed… better organized.

…Because we live in a modern world with a super busy lifestyle that is never going to slow down.

But you can be efficient.

You can achieve maximum success, on whatever project or ambition you have, when you are efficient.

Doesn't that make so much sense?

That's what I learned from the 1920 course on productivity that I discovered.

"If you know what you're doing, efficiency is the only improvement opportunity" – david allen

See Productivity Secret 4.

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