To be successful in achieving your goals and creating your desired lifestyle, you will have to get good at saying no to all of the people and distractions that would otherwise devour you. Successful people know how to say no without feeling guilty.
Don’t just delegate, eliminate!
If you are going to increase your results and your income as well as increase the amount of R & R Days in your life, you are going to have to eliminate those tasks, requests, and other time-stealers that don’t have a high payoff.
You will have to structure your work so that you are focusing your time, effort, energies, and resources only on projects, opportunities, and people that give you a huge reward for your efforts. You are going to have to create strong boundaries about what you will and won’t do.
Start by creating what Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, calls a “stop doing” list. Most of us are busy but undisciplined. We are active but not focused. We are moving, but not always in the right direction. By creating a stop-doing list as well as a to-do list, you bring more discipline and focus into your life.
* Source: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield