I Will Act Now

In the busy-ness of our business, we often find ourselves wondering, “What next?”  After all, there are reports to run, stuff to sell, teams to train, fires to extinguish, plans to write, emails to read, emails to send, and on, and on, and on….

When we look at our in-box, legal pad, or iPad, we are often intimidated by the sheer amount of ‘stuff’ that we need to do.  You aren’t the only one who has spent an afternoon compiling a list of tasks, then, realizing that the day has ended, you place the legal pad on your desk with intentions of attacking it ‘first thing in the morning.’ 

Yeah, right…  The morning arrives with more calls, letters, messages, emails, blah blah blah, and your organized to-do list becomes lost beneath the last email you printed.

Og Mandino, in his book, ‘The Greatest Salesman In The World’, penned the following words:

 “I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action, which follows, becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

I encourage each of you to purchase and read this book.  You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Greatest-Salesman-World-Mandino/dp/B000GR1ZXI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334952496&sr=1-1

It seems we get stuck in the mode of meeting, compiling, strategizing, and never get around to doing the things we put on our list. Act now!

I am inviting each of you to join me on a journey to personal productivity…  A clean desk…  A sense of accomplishment…  A less stressful work environment…

C,mon!  It will be fun! 

For the next few weeks, I will be forwarding on my book recommendations, ideas, tips and tricks to becoming a more organized, productive individual. 

If you have read this far, you want that badly, anyway…

Let’s grow together… 

Stay tuned.