What these complainers did not understand is that Tony’s time is probably worth ten of thousands of dollars an hour. In case you did not know it the guy is worth in the neighborhood of a billion dollars. So, when you navigate in that stratosphere you have to prioritize your time. You have to concentrate on the major and forget the minor.

Being productive requires prioritizing the available time first and then it means being on focus. A definite objective needs to be established followed by a specific plan and finally, a controlled execution of the plan has to be directed.

The main roadblock to productivity is procrastination. In any major endeavor there will be some stumbling blocks and some major problems. That’s when procrastination shows it ugly head. Taking the easy road is the natural thing to do, so, when facing a stone wall, the natural tendency is to be distracted and concentrate on matters that are not relevant to the progression of the project on hand.

Work does not necessarily mean productivity. I have coached many up and coming young lions who were committed to succeed in business or in their professional life. One of the major point that had to be stressed with these guys was that there is a huge difference between business and busy-ness. Fussing over which tie should be worn today is not productive time. Planning an important phone call that could result in a big contract is quality and productive time.

Time and energy are restricted assets. They must be well invested. To accomplish that productively we must take on two roles. We must be the director and the manager of our time. The director’s role is to determine to road or path that will lead to the objective sought and the manager’s job is to make sure that we stay on that path.

Lastly, if we want to be productive, we must concentrate on our sphere of influence and not on our sphere of concerns. This needs a bit of explaining. We are surrounded by things over which we have control, that’s our sphere of influence and we are also surrounded with things over which we have no control and that our sphere of concerns.

Needless to say that whatever time spent worrying over our sphere of concerns or the things that we cannot change is a total waste of time and energy. To be really productive, we have to be disciplined which also means having control over our mind and the best way to exercise that discipline is by staying focus on what we can change and stop worrying over what can happen to us.

To succeed in any endeavor, we must be productive and to be productive we must be proactive in prioritizing, in managing procrastination and in exercising focus control. Time is money and the way that we use our time will determine the amount of money that we will earn. Simple application, huge results.

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Lack of resource is the mother of invention. Lack of resources stands behind almost every great breakthroughs. Lack of resources should not be viewed as a handicap but as an opportunity for creativity and growth.

My Dad was a simple man. He never had the chance to get a superior education but he left me with an incredible gift. He taught me about resourcefulness. He showed me that our greatest asset is not money in the bank, not influential friends, not prestige or power but resourcefulness.

We grew up in a family of very modest means but none of us ever lacked anything. The money may not have been there but resourcefulness certain was, so we always had everything that we ever needed.

Resourcefulness is nothing but imagination in action. You need a resource that you don’t have – what do you do? You brainstorm. You write down as many solutions as you can on how you could do without that particular resource and keep your project alive and progressing.

Most of the solutions that you will come up with will be worthless. However, out of that brainstorming a flame of hope will shine upon one of those solutions. You keep exploring that venue and sooner or later your problem will be solved. Resourcefulness will have compensated for the lack of resources.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat. If it cannot be done one way there are always another. We’ve all heard these words before but we seem to forget them when we most need them.

Money is not the most important resource. Resourcefulness is. That is because you can lose all your money, but unless you get sick, you will always have your resourcefulness.

At one point in my life, I was hosting a TV show on health. I wanted to interview the leading medical authorities in my hometown but I soon found out that medical specialists were not very found of being interviewed by a chiropractor, which is what I am. So, I had to get some leverage. What I did was to get in touch with the doctor who was number one on the totem pole of the medical community.

That guy was a cardiologist who rode a red Ferrari and had an ego that was bigger than a barn door. He was the head rooster in town. I knew that that a guy like that could not turn down a chance to appear on TV. So, I invited him on the show. Of course he agreed.

The word spread around that Dr. Bigshot had been on my show and after that, the telephone never stopped wringing. No other specialist wanted to feel that they could not do what this guy had done. Each and everyone of the specialists appeared on the show.

Resourcefulness had won over resources. It always does. A lesson that I never forgot and will always use.

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In this Blog, I would like to address the fundamental and universal need for significance. Significance is having the feeling that we are somebody, that we matter, that we make a difference. For most people, the way that this need is met will determine to a very large extent which direction that they will take in their life.

Donald Trump fulfills that need by being one of the most outlandish and biggest real estate developer. Obviously the need for significance is very profound in his case and it has totally shaped his life.

On the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to be first in order to fulfill his need of significance. That need has had him push himself to train harder than anyone else in order to become the number one bodybuilder in the world. It did not stop there. Successful bodybuilders have a history of becoming movie actor.
So he became one. And not only did he became an actor but he has also eclipsed all other bodybuilders as an actor. The need to be number one has defined who he was and what he did.

The history of all great people are the same. They had an intense need for significance and they became famous by fulfilling that need.

Now, each and everyone of us also has that need for significance. Yet, very few of us has taken the time to determine what we do to fulfill that need. And more importantly most of us don’t know if we are fulfilling that need in an empowering or disempowering way.

If you want to know how you fulfill most of your need for significance, simply as yourself the question, “What is it about me that attracts attention?” You might be quite surprised to find out what the answer will be.

Both, positive and negative traits will attract attention. Some people will attract attention by being successes, others will do it by being failures. Some people will fulfill the need in an empowering way, others in a disempowering way. Some will do it by being heroes, others will do it by being obnoxious. There are those who will do it by building people up. Others will do it by tearing people down.

We all have our own personal technique, our own personal operational system to achieve significance. We have to find out what it is and we have to find out if it is leading us to personal fulfillment, contentment and happiness or if it’s leading us down the path of misery and self-destruction.

The good news is that we are not stuck with something that does not work. We can change it. People who got their sense of significance by winning at all cost have found out that they could change and find the same significance by helping others to win, by contributing rather than by seeking exclusively their self-interest.

Significance plays a very important role in our life. We need to explore the way that we do it and, if need be, change it to a more rewarding path.

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