Twitter seems like just a distraction to me, but once in a while, something delicious comes across.
A while back I saw a tweet from @StuAcademyAAPA that went something like this.
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How is studying going?
This question can be best answered with a pie chart.
And then a picture of this guy holding up a pie chart with 2/3 shaded as PROCRASTINATING and the other 1/3 as DISTRACTING OTHERS.
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Nailed it.
Imagine for a second your a big-time company. Let’s call it You Inc.
Now You inc. is thousands of dollars in debt. You inc. is betting everything on one strategy. Borrow money to keep the lights on long enough for this one big client that we are going to land. And once we have that client, things will be right as rain.
If You inc., doesn’t land that client, well, the lights go out, but the debt stays. You can’t bankrupt the kind of debt You inc. has taken. It has to get paid back.
Now you being the big cheese at You inc., you make sure every team member is on board and knows that they have to bust their butts to land this client.
But you keep hearing that your team members don’t have enough time. There is just too much to do and not enough time and that you’re a slave driver. Being an intelligent, attractive, and conscientious owner of this company, you hire some outside help — a time management consultant.
On day one, he says, “I begin by taking one week to spend time with your employees and track where the time goes.”
Terrified, you scream, “NO, anything but that! Just give us some tips, please. I only wanted you to give us some tips!”
I was reading something the other day, and there was this quote that went something like this.
When referring to money if you say things like “Where does it all go?” then you’re probably broke. You need to know where it goes so you can make some adjustments.
The same goes for your time. If you’re saying you don’t have enough time or where does the time go?
Start keeping track. Maybe most of your time goes to distracting other people and procrastinating.
Brian
P.S. The Final Step is a great book for people who are “short on time.” It lets you blast through tons of material really quick and gets them stuck in your brain like nothing else.
P.P.S Rather than distracting your classmates maybe you could help them instead. Put together a group order of The Final Step. You’ll get your copy for FREE, and anyone who orders through the group gets a HUGE discount. Hundreds of schools have set this up already, and it’s worked out great. Super easy, you don’t even have to handle collecting money from everyone. Just Let me know you’re interested. I’ll give you a unique URL to share with your class. That’s about it.
Hit reply and let me know if you’re interested in getting a copy of The Final Step at no cost and helping out your classmates.