Cyril Northcote Parkinson, author, historian, economist;<\/p>\n
“A task will swell in perceived importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion<\/em>”<\/p>\n If you have just 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution because your only choice is to focus on and complete only the bare essentials.<\/p>\n If you have a week to complete a task – it’s 6 days of making a mountain out of a mole hill.\u00a0 If you have 6 months – you have a mental monster.<\/p>\n This is one reason why people who start their business with the attitude of\u00a0 “I’ll give this 3 months, 6 months, a year and then see where I’m at<\/em>” fail so miserably.\u00a0\u00a0 And why so much of a rep’s quotas or sales volume shows up in the last 24 hours of the month.<\/p>\n Bottomline:<\/strong> It’s the magic<\/em> of the imminent deadline.\u00a0 The end product of a short deadline is always of equal or greater quality because of the intense focus. So if your goal is for your business to generate $3,000. per month….that works out to be just $100. bucks per day.\u00a0 So what do you “get to” do that will generate 100 bucks today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cyril Northcote Parkinson, author, historian, economist; “A task will swell in perceived importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion” If you have just 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to … Continue reading