Pete's Pages - Top Tips

Some Ideas

• Don't wait until you have finished to have fun. You may never finish.
• A big task is just a lot of little tasks. Pick them off one at a time.
• Channel your energies into things you can influence. Don't waste energy on the things you can't.
• You don't need to go places just because there are aeroplanes.
• Consume less. Digest more.
• You don't have to see and know everything. Stop watching the news and trust you will find out what you need to know.
• It often takes less time to do something than to add it to a do-list. Just do it.
• If you want something done, encourage someone else to think it was their idea.
• Possessions devour time. Do you want to spend all your time dusting, polishing, sorting, fixing, insuring, searching for, tripping over ...?
• Some time-savers don't. Direct Debits are a nightmare to unscramble if you, or the bank, gets it wrong.
• Forget the camera. A memory doesn't need preparation, doesn't take up shelf space and lasts forever.
• If you want help, ask for it.
• There is nothing you can do to change the past.
• Distinguish between the urgency of a task and that of the task-setter. Go with the task.
• Resist the tyranny of modern communications.
• Do tough work in the morning. Save routine stuff, meetings and phone calls till later.
• If you are given one too many tasks, ask what other one you should drop.
• Don't start work early or stay late. Work expands to fill the time.
• Accept ambiguity and uncertainty. It's normal. Alter your expectations.
• Behave as if you're in business yourself.
• Keep learning and manage your own morale.
• Hold yourself accountable for outcomes.
• Be a fixer, not a finger pointer.