Hi there. Today I will like to share with you the wisom of Ivy Lee. If you are a person who doesn’t really have a good system in place for getting things done then I am sure you will enjoy this post.

Charles Schwab was the chairman of the Bethlehem Steel and he was a very important man who did not really have a lot of free time cause he was very busy seeing about the affairs of the company.

Now one day a business consultant by the name of Ivy Lee came up to him and said that he had a plan that if Mr. Schwab used it, would greatly increase his productivity.

Now Mr. Schwab had heard of all the strategies to increase productivity before so he wasn’t going to be fooled by this man. However Ivy Lee made a proposition. He said that he will give him the strategy for him to use and then only after using the strategy he should pay him how much he thinks that strategy is worth.

Now Charles did not have a problem with this since all the risk was on Mr. Lee’s part. Ivy Lee handed him the strategy and he used it in Bethlehem Steel. Several weeks later, Ivy Lee received a check for $25,000.

Now I am sure that right now you are probably wondering what it could be that could be worth so much money. Let us call it the success six.

This was what Ivy Lee handed him on paper

1. Write down 6 things you need to do tomorrow and number them 1 to 6.
2. Take that list and arrange it in order of importance
3. When you start the day begin the first task and don’t do any other task until you have finished the one above it.
4. Work on down the list and when the list is through prepare another list for the next day
5. Do this every day and after doing it share it with your people

Now that was the advice that Mr. Charles Schwab paid $25,000 for. Why not try it in your life? Why not try it and see if it helps you life in any way.

Thanks for reading this post and please feel free to leave your comments.

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Hi there. I will like to share with you a principle to beating procrastination. I learnt this from my coach Mike Litman and in it he speaks about the 1% principle to success.

Now what do I mean by this 1% principle. I know that many of you have been procrastinating on something for weeks, months or probably years because we are focusing on taking massive monumental steps each day and these steps scare us to the point that we refuse to take action on it.

Some of us have some extremely long to do lists to do each day that we just start a lot of things and end up finishing nothing. So here is what this 1% principle is about.

Forget trying to do so much things and improving yourself monumentally each day. Stop trying to grow yourself by 50 percent or even 10 percent. Try to grow yourself by 1%. Now I am sure that you can do that.

Have about 2 or 3 things to do in your to do list so that by the end of the day you can show that you have won. We need to get momentum in our lives and this is what the 1% principle can do for you.

If you’ve been procrastinating on reading a book, then why not read 1 or 2 pages per day. I am sure that you can do that. You need to get some momentum in your life and that is what the 1% principle will give you.

If you are like me and you want to memorize scripture verses from the bible, why not make a decision to learn just 1 verse per week and by the end of the year you will know 52 verses.

Do you see how this 1% principle works. Each day it compounds like compound interest.

So here’s what you need to do. Write down just 3 small things you are going to do tomorrow to move your life or business forward. Share it with us and celebrate when you have done these things.

Thanks for reading this post and have a great day!!!

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The Secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda- John Maxwell

Okay in today’s post I will like to talk to you on the importance of ‘Today’. Dr. John Maxwell wrote a book called Today Matters and if you do not have a copy of that book I strongly recommend that you get it because he shares a lot of wisdom you can apply in your daily life in order to achieve success tomorrow.

You see if we want to achieve success tomorrow, we need to take action today because what we do today is what will determine what happens tomorrow. Someone once said that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift which is why we call it the present! So what are you doing with ‘Today’.

Are you using it wisely or just going with the flow? Just allowing time to just fly by and take its course on its own. We need to use today wisely. Anyone who wants to achieve anything tomorrow will have to use the days before the tomorrow to achieve the results. We look at those Olympic Athletes that take the stage every 4 years and when we see a Usain Bolt or other great athlete, we wonder how they got so strong.

It’s all because they took advantage of today!! For years upon years they have been training and practising each day for the olympics and they had to make each day count in order to become as good as they are. That’s why they become so great. It’s not because of talent or ability but it’s because of dedication to a cause that needs to be prepared for each and every day and they needed to make each day count. We see the glory but we don’t know the story!!!

If someone takes an axe and just strikes it 5 times each day on a tree, it will eventually fall down. The day that it falls down is not the greatest day but it was the combination of striking the tree 5 times each day that cause it to tumble down!!

So my question to you is what are you doing with ‘Today’. Are you using it wisely? Remember that Today Matters and if you want to be successful start taking action today and each day after that and in due season your ‘harvest time’ will appear and everyone will be asking themselves how did you get to become so great and you will just simply reply that ‘Today Matters’!!!

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