How To Outperform And Win Your FUTURE

I get this question a lot: “How do you have time to do all that you do?”

My response:  I work hard daily to be in charge of seconds, minutes and hours of the day. And what that means is simple: I PLAN. In secondary school, I took 15 subjects (WAEC recommended 9) because I felt Economics was nice even as Further Mathematics was super-amazing. So, I took both. But since WAEC would not allow more than 9, I wrote GCE while in secondary to pass Economics, Commerce, etc. With simple time management, the extra academic load did not break me. In the bank, I ran two master’s degree programs and a correspondence doctoral program while working full time. What was the secret? Planning.

The biggest professional victory is victory over your time. If you master your time, you will win your future. Greatness has been achieved, not because of special talent, but rather due to total dedication, perseverance and commitment through the mastering of time. A man who cannot manage his seconds will wander through the boundless of time.

If you take 5 minutes to plan your day, you could save (or improve productivity by more than) 3 hours in a day. But having the discipline for those special 5 minutes is where outperformance comes. It is like a brilliant student in an exam: you first scan the questions, and then decide within yourself how to allocate time!

What is tomorrow going to look like? Take 5 minutes to think what it would look like before you sleep or if you prefer, in the early hours of tomorrow, plan it. Remember: write the important tasks of the day down, and as the day flies, adjust if necessary.

Do not wake up with no plan on the day’s agenda. If you do that, time will BOSS you because the clock does not stop.

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