I have a friend who keeps on coaxing me that I keep on doing that makes life too cumbersome, and are not too important and do things that dont matter too much. I guess he is right! We do a lots of things that we can avoid.
His idea is to bring focus in my efforts for some gainful and productive activity, which will harness my profession and my goals. I think, that is why supervisors, boss, trainers, teachers and parents and children are for.
He is a great dude for getting you back on track and focus on activities that needs to be done for fostering your life and career goals.
What he said made complete sense to me, I came up with a idea to see how much time i spent on things that could have been done without my help....self assessment. I came across that of all more that 50% of hours I work, go on spending doing not directly related to my job in any way.
I can complete my day in 5 hours and focus on other things, productive and gainful for me and the society.
So I made "Not to do" Plan
Surprised? I had a problem to come up with the name. There are things we should not be focusing on. You would have come across only to do list and plan. We write many things which we want to do on that day or during that week. We dont have a "Not-to-do" plan at all.
Having a not to-do Plan is useful and important. If you carefully analyse a day, you may come across activities which you need not have done. If you had avoided those activities, it would have given you a chunk of time which you could have used for some productive purpose.
I came across a story, which will explain this. There was dirt
adjacent to a road, many people passed by and did nothing. A
potter went through that way and looked at the dirt, He wanted
to carve a beautiful pot out of it. He started collecting dirt and after several days of work, he made a a great pot. Now there was a pot in the place where the dirt stood, glaring at others.
Others asked him how he saw a pot in the dirt while they saw only dirt in the dirt. For this, he replied that he did not bring
anything new into the dirt and the pot already existed in the
dirt.
All he did was that he looked at the dirt and removed and every portion of the dirt which did not resemble a pot. What remained was a pot!
Like that potter, we should remove every activity, which does
not facilitate our goal. If you do this, you can also carve a
pot of gold in your life!
In our home, office, business, HR profession, we spend a lot of time doing a whole lot of things that are not important for yourself, your profession, your business, and others. If we prepare, not-to-do-plan, we could really do a lot. It is really difficult, but essential for professionals and self employed and especially in organisations where people engage in not useful activies.
Hence a suggestion, before doing any activity, ask the question to yourself: "Should I spend my time doing this activity?", and follow the triple test formulae.
If the answer is `no', don't do it.
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Rajesh Diwan
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