Workaholics Anonymous – Your STOP Doing List (Comments from Step 1)
[Index: INTRO, Step 1, 1b, 2, 3, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 6b, 7, 8, 9, 9b, 10, 10b, 11, 12]
It was difficult to select from your excellent STOP DOING suggestions. Below are 10 great ones with bonus suggestion I particularly like!
1. STOP doing tasks that do not pay me my appropriate hourly rate.
2. STOP trying to make everything perfect.
3. STOP letting my days go on forever. Get a good night’s rest.
4. STOP checking email all day long and STOP replying them immediately.
5. STOP shortchanging my health by replacing exercise with work
6. STOP doing other people’s work for them; train them to do it for themselves.
7. STOP being distracted by work during family time.
8. STOP ‘pausing’ so often in the middle of major tasks.
9. STOP wasting time (mindless T.V, gaming & nonessential social networking) and replace with quality motivational reading and DVD’s.
10. STOP taking meetings and appointments that are not using my best time to produce the results and goals that I have.
10.5. STOP listening to news talk radio and listen to only material from SUCCESS magazine.
Some additional great STOP DOING ideas:
STOP doing important things last minute.
STOP doing projects and tasks that don’t fall into my top 3 priorities, delegate them instead.
STOP reading all emails to the end (I do not need to read them all).
STOP doing personal issues during business time and vice versa.
STOP procrastinating and start selling!
STOP listening to gossip and the like.
STOP procrastinating regarding the most important (#1 task of the day).
STOP fooling/convincing myself that I’m doing my best.
STOP taking calls from people who want to complain/vent about the job.
STOP logging on my computer first thing on weekend mornings.
STOP reading all the emails that I’m copied on (especially attachments).
STOP multitasking and practice more focus.
STOP checking mindless, social netstalking sites.
STOP worrying about things that I have no control over.
Standby for STEP 2 tomorrow…
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Right On Darren!
How TRUE and Thanks for the intervention!
if you do one of these you are moving forward! vent and take a stand!
Darren -
While I like your list of STOP doing’s – I have one I struggle with a bit. #4.
4. STOP checking email all day long and STOP replying them immediately.
While I know that email checking can cause problems, I find it quite successful for me to respond quickly. One of the principles I have built into my company is a sense of immediacy with responding to our clients, which prompts a “What just happen” response from them.
I’ve told them even if you just respond and say, I’ve got your email and am thinking about it, at least the person knows you are working on whatever the request was. In this day in age when we have email almost no matter where we go, I find this to be very helpful.
My practice is to immediately respond and place that email in an action folder which I can come back to later and take care of. While this system doesn’t work for everyone, it works solidly for me and I will probably keep doing it in the future because of the benefit it brings me.
I just wanted to share that with you and thanks for this list; it hit home. Have a great Day!
great darren
I wasn’t expecting some of my stops will be picked i your list
great job
Jean-Philippe
pls i want to be getting the hard copy of success MAGAZINE.
YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB TO DEVELOPE MINDS FOR SUCH ARE NEEDED IN TODAYS WORLD.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS.
TOM
[FROM DARREN HARDY] Hi Tom! Just go here to subscribe to SUCCESS: http://www.SUCCESS.com/Subscribe
Hi,
Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!
Thanks
Saurooon
Ah, I admit I have a bad habit of checking email too often. But then again, I never use the phone — so does that even it out? Actually, I should come out ahead because I don’t deal with endless banter that most people have on the phone.
I do respond to emails right away if they take less than a couple of minutes to do — it’s one of those organization tools that work well for me.