Residential Real EstateWhat Is The Product Of Your Performance?
Your personal productivity cannot be measured simply by what you are doing. If what you are doing is not getting you to where you want to go, your time is not being spent productively. Rather, personal productivity is measured by what is produced from that performance, the product of your performance.
For example, I work with a laptop. I write articles, develop spreadsheets, and update my database about as fast and efficiently as anyone I know. During the first six months I owned the laptop I loaded it with an incredible amount of data, pounding away at the keyboard like it was a fine piano. On a scale of one to ten, I would initially rate my personal productivity with respect to this task, as a nine or a ten. I was a super achiever. Well, except for one small detail.
I did not back up my work. I don"t know why I neglected this task, because I have always backed up my work. The hard drive on the laptop crashed, burned, and died and I lost everything I had put into it for six months.
Now, what was my productivity on a scale of 1-10? Zero, Nothing. See my performance was a nine or a ten but neglecting to do a key step, backing up the work, resulted in the product of my performance being a zero, as if I had not done it at all.
If you are working at a job that is not fulfilling to you, you are doing it because of the paycheck only, then you are not operating at a high level of personal productivity. Sixty to eighty percent of those who go to work on Monday morning would rather be somewhere else. You are a cog that makes money. You may be able do that dreaded job quicker, faster, and better than anyone else but if it"s a job that doesn"t excite and fulfill you, you"re not at a high level of personal productivity.
If you are on a path where your marriage may end in divorce, (and 50 percent of all marriages end up in divorce), through which you may have to give up a significant percentage of everything you have ever worked for in your adult life, you are not being very productive. Making all that money over the years, only to give much of it away to a person you have learned to hate, is not an example of high personal productivity. The performance was making all that money in the first place. But the product of the performance was to create a property settlement fund in your divorce.
Examine everything you are doing. Is it getting you to where you want to go in your life? Is your performance creating the product you want to achieve? If not, fix it. Change your performance to deliver the right product to you and truly operate at high productivity levels.