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I mentioned this to my husband. He wants to make a change instead of relocating to the company’s new headquarters. He’s fairly high level, has his own office, and his boss is located elsewhere. My husband looked at me as if I had three heads, laughed, and said, “You’re nuts! You’re the recruiter ” you do it!” (Actually - soon I’ll be doing that very thing for a little bit every day!) But then ” he works with numbers. Not exactly a people related field, and he’s definitely not sales oriented!

So that’s the thing. The ability to do this begins entirely in your head, no matter what career skills you have or don’t have because now you are going to be a salesperson for a bit. If you don’t think your skills are worth selling, then you might as well not even bother sending out your resume ” because that’s simply a different form of selling the same product.

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Time management is the major skill behind all success. Your ability to manage your time and to focus on the most important tasks will determine your income and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor.

Time Management Is Life Management

Time management is really life management. It is about taking control over what you do next. And it’s up to you alone to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful guidelines of time and life management. This rule says that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results. For example, 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales. 20% of your products or services will account for 80% of your profits. 20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the value of what you do…etc.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important tasks first. As a result, they accomplish more than the average person and are much happier as a result.

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“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”
-Nikki Giovanni

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