Doing the right thing & Prioritizing the work..

There are two rules to achieve great results in our life-

1) Doing the right thing is doing the thing which is necessary to get required results.

2) Prioritizing the work is giving the highest priority to the work which produces the most important results.

Both these rules sounds like pretty basic, trivial, anyone will understand, everyone knows, every human being must be following it.

Yet in our day today life I see most, including me ignoring these basic rules.

Mostly we are doing what we feel like doing instead of doing what is necessary. For example many of my colleagues have home loans on their head, they feel the pressure, the burden of the loan plus interest costs on their head, they hate paying the monthly EMI of the loan but still they feel I must have a car (in Indian metro City motorcycle is the best way to commute to the workplace because of traffic congestion, and car is only used for some once in a month family outings, using a car everyday is not at all practical even if you have extra money) and they get one (on the loan of course) though they know that the value of the car starts decreasing, the moment it leaves the car showroom. Just because they feel buying a car is the right thing to do.

I have seen even high ranking officers in various organizations doing the same, I have found them concentrating more on the results, trying the tweak the results instead of working on the system which is giving the results. 

Investment legend Warren Buffet have described this condition as fixing all your attention on the scoreboard, when you should be concentrating on your game, which is actually producing the score.

When it comes to prioritizing the work, people also don't give much deliberation and arrange the things in proper order. People just start doing the things which they like to do first or which appears in front of them first.

For example, as most of the people are not doing the right thing, they are not getting the required results, and as they are not getting the required results they are working still harder, resulting in working overtime, bringing office work to home, not having enough time for lunch break, so skipping lunch altogether. But we join a job to ensure enough food for us and our families, what if the job is consuming so much time that you are not even getting time to eat or for your family. Anyone in this situation needs to pause and think about it, whether you are doing job for you and your family or your existence is for the job?

And when an high level managerial person does it, his/her subordinates also have to follow for obvious reasons. Resulting in too much of an indirect damage to many families because of the bad decisions of a single person.

All this can be avoided with doing the right thing and prioritizing the work.

It is not only related to offices or organizations, it is also related to our daily lives, we have to take decisions like, what to purchase, when to marry, whom to marry, which job to join, when to change the job, purchasing a house, making investments, family get togethers etc.

If one is only chasing his/her career and ignoring the family aspect of life i.e. getting married and having children then there remains a void in the life of that person, even if he/she becomes really successful in the career.

Remember this blog is to strengthen the three pillars of life- health, wealth and happiness.

So we have to learn to do the right thing and prioritizing the work. So as to achieve the maximum output in minimum input. (Improving the efficiency of our life.)

Find out what you want and which system is producing those results, sort out the bottlenecks, don't be afraid of failures, change the system if you are not getting the required results, think which is the most important thing to be done, also what is to be avoided. 

That's your homework.

See you soon. Till then, have a nice day.

Sumit,

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