Have you ever come to the end of your workday asking yourself, “Why didn’t I get anything done today?” Yeah, me, too. Two posts ago, before we had an interruption for exigent circumstances, I promised you I would teach you how to get to it now and get your customer’s paying work done as timely as feasible. So, let’s get to it now and see how we can make that happen for you.
If you read my book, you will find The P10 Principle, which states, “Proaction, perception, planning, preparation, practice, and persistence promote practically perfect performance.” I conglomerated this concept from a variety of sources including Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits, W. Edwards Deming’s Out of the Crisis, John Norcross’s Changeology, and Thomas Greenspon’s Moving Past Perfect.
We can easily assume you are being proactive in your desire to get to doing your paying work done as timely as feasible. So, let’s move on to the perception part of the P10 Principle.
In order to do anything, you have to perceive three things.
- First, you have to perceive, in immaculate detail, your practically perfect performance of what you want to do. In this case, it will be the practically perfect performance of getting your paying work done as timely as feasible.
- Once you have perceived your practically perfect performance of doing what you want to do, you have to then, second, perceive how you are obviously much less than practically perfectly not getting your paying work done now.
- Once you have perceived what you want to be doing and what you are actually doing, then you have to perceive what of your life’s precious resources of self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people you can and must apply to get from what you are doing to what you want to do.
Making the change from what you are doing to what you want to do is where most of the work of the P10 Principle comes into play. This working part of life, both personal and professional, is where the planning, preparation, practice, and persistence “P’s” of the P10 Principle come into their necessary use.
As with almost anything else in life, the exact details of how one performs each of these steps varies with the specific facts and circumstances that present themselves to anyone who needs to get their paying work done as effectively and efficiently as feasible. Most of the time, if you have the requisite skills to qualify yourself to get hired to do paying professional work, you really should not need much planning, preparation, practice, or persistence to get started.
The truth is, in most situations where you are not getting your work done timely enough, you already know what it is need to do and you already know how to do it. The real problem, however, is you just can’t get yourself to work doing it.
Why not? Why can’t you get yourself to work doing your paying work? Usually, it is because you don’t really like what you do for a living or because you cannot see yourself making any progress in your life doing what you are doing the way you are currently doing it.
This is a vicious cycle, the breaking of which, requires you to admit you need some help and resolve to go get it. You can get help internally, but you are probably presently failing at that, or you can get help externally, which is going to require you to invest something, sometime, somewhere.
The secret at this point in time, however, is to “Get To It, Now!” either doing your paying work or getting some help getting past whatever is blocking you from doing your paying work now.
If you need help, contact me and I will be willing to help you. But you have to ask and commit to working on the problem yourself with my help.
I look forward to hearing from you.
In Part 2 of this series on John Norcross’s