Do you every have a great idea that you’d love to implement? Do you ever get inspired to do something? Anything? Clean your desk, write a blog post, organize your files? And then, instead of just doing it, you add it to your “todo” list and watch it clutter up your list of things that you really need to do. Once it makes it to the todo list, it’s as good as dead.
People live for little accomplishments and they love to reward themselves for a job well done. For some reason, these people feel that adding a task to a “todo” list is an accomplishment in and of itself. News Flash: It’s not!
Inspiration has an expiry date and it’s usually less than the milk in your fridge. If you don’t act on inspiration, your inspired idea will never get done. Go ahead and change your reward system from rewarding adding items to your “todo” list, to actually doing the items. Trust me, you’ll be much happier and much better off. When a “todo” list gets more than a few items on it, the lister becomes considerably less productive the more the list grows.
Do yourself a huge favor and act on inspiration and when using a “todo” list, only keep the most important 5 items on there at a time.
*I wrote that above title on my todo list a few minutes ago, slapped myself in the head and then finished the article.I am a typical person more or less that has always tried to get away with doing the absolute minimum to get by. In school, I did my assignments last minute, I barely passes some of my tests, I crammed for everything and didn't care about retaining any information. I always wanted to be successful and get lucky but my problem was that I thought that luck and chance were synonymous. One day, all that changed when i found out that there was more to "Luck". I learned that it was possible to make your own luck and that people that were "lucky", all had very similar characteristics. I made a conscious decision to become one of those lucky people and the world started to open up. It didn't happen overnight and I'm still not there yet but at least I know what to look for and what to do. Recognizing the opportunities to get lucky is only the beginning of the battle. Now I have to train myself to jump on every opportunity and one day be truly "lucky".
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