Neste DDM trazemos um pouco sobre como se organizar, fazer menos, porém de forma organizada, é possível dessa forma, fazer mais.
Timothy Ferris, autor, escritor, empresário e apresentador, é apresentado por Coach Shane neste DDM de número 428 com título “the to-do or not-to-do list” de uma forma bem particular, foi graças à leitura deste livro The 4-Hour Workweek que DDM, Pirf e Action English estão à sua disposição.
Nesta aula Coach mostra os pontos principais do livro que o levou tomar esta decisão (abrir seu próprio negócio online) e discorre um pouco sobre o autor, que, segundo ele, não é expert em absolutamente nada, porém entende muito de muita coisa. Sabemos o nome disso “Jack of all trades, master or nothing”, mas não é o caso de Timothy, ele é mestre em vender o que cria, e isso já é algo bem difícil de ser feito.
Tecer muito sobre a aula vai deixá-lo menos curioso sobre o que acontece no DDM então deixo-te apenas o básico que costumo compartilhar com vocês. Aproveite, é de graça, por enquanto.
Vejamos o script da lição.
428 The to-do or not-to-do lists…
Not-to-do lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance. And the reason is simple: What you don’t do determines what you can do.
So, I’m going to elaborate on nine stressful and very common habits that entrepreneurs and office workers should strive to eliminate. Uh, focus on one or two at a time, just as you would with high-priority to-do items. So, one or two per day—no more. And I’ve worded them in a, in a not-to-do action form to try to make these actionable.
- Do not answer phone calls from unrecognized or unknown phone numbers. Feel free to surprise others, of course, but don’t be surprised yourself. It just results in 1) unwanted interruption of various types, right? And there’s task-switching costs. So, when you go from task to task, you will typically, let’s just say 40% of the time, not complete the task that was interrupted. Uh, another reason to use an app like Freedom. Uh, and secondly, you’ll end up in a poor negotiating position. You don’t want to be surprised. So, let unknown phone numbers go to voicemail, and consider using something like Google Voice where you can listen in on the voicemail or something like SimulScribe that will allow you to receive voicemails as e-mail.
- Do not email first thing in the morning or last thing at night. The former scrambles your priorities and all your plans for the day, and the latter just gives you insomnia. Email can wait until 10am or after you’ve completed at least one of your critical to-do items, alright? And read more, of course, of what I’ve written about working first thing in the morning offline. And you can find plenty of that stuff on the blog at fourhourblog.com.
- Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time. Phrased another way, you always need a clear agenda beforehand and a stated end time. For meetings or calls, alright? If the desired outcome is defined clearly—this is what we want to accomplish in this call or in this meeting, uh, and there’s an agenda listing topics/questions to cover—no meeting or call should really last more than 30 minutes, alright? So, request them in advance so you can “best prepare and make good use of our time together”.
To be continued…
O glossário, onde Coach Shane nos explica sobre cada palavra nova ou importante da lição.
Glossário
Upgrading: improving, bettering, enhancing
Simple: easy
Determines: decides, influences, affects
Elaborate: explain thoroughly, get more specific
Entrepreneurs: people who start businesses with their own equity (money, talent, time, sweat…)
Strive to: try to, endeavor to
Eliminate: get rid of
Worded them: wrote them
Actionable: something that is immediately (and easily) doable.
Feel free to…: go ahead and…
Poor: disadvantaged
Listen in on…: eavesdrop, snoop, listen to someone/ something WITHOUT them knowing
The former: first one
Scrambles: messes up, screws up
The latter: last one
Insomnia: the inability to sleep!
Critical: very important
Agenda: plan, outline, reason
Phrased another way: to put it another way, in other words
Beforehand: before you start
Stated: agreed up, clear
Defined clearly: easily understood by everyone
Accomplish: achieve
To cover: to talk about, to discuss
In advance: beforehand
To best prepare: to be able to prepare in the best way
Make good use of…: properly and efficiently use
A gravação da lição.
É a parte onde gravo a minha leitura e mostro a evolução que o curso tem feito em minha pronúncia, intonação, ritmo e fluxo.
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