It must have started back in the days when “they” came up with the Protestant Work Ethic, the idea that being busy was better than being idle.  So shortly thereafter someone invented the “Do it List” and a lot of us got on board making life incomplete unless we crossed out the biggest part of our lists each day.  A little later someone introduced “Priorities” and our lists had hierarchies that got crossed off in order of importance.

Today busy looks like this: you either have a bug or a cell phone in your ear, you talk in a conversational voice and you are walking quickly, carrying disorganized files of notepapers.  This is a great way to be advanced in the corporate business structure but hardly efficient or effective.

For the rest of us, our burden seems to be the “incompletes” left over from yesterday that need to be integrated into today’s do list.  Or is it?  In a few minutes I’ll tell you and remind me of things we can do to either shorten our “do it now” list or completely eliminate it, depending on how religiously we do 4 things.

1.       Dump it.  If a task has been showing up for three or more days on you do it list don’t even write it on the 4^th day or current day.  How can you end a day with any relief knowing that something remains undone?  “Incompletes” are the bane of list makers.  Leaving it off list is one less thing to check off.  That’s a freeing move.  The next method will get it done so you don’t have it waking you in the night.

2.       Delegate it.  I hate to bust your thunder but just about anyone can do your tasks adequately.  Do you really want to fly solo?  Studies have shown that in order to move your business to the next level you need to use outside help.  It’s a “best” practice which we can learn or relearn by assigning lesser tasks and then more important tasks to others.

3.       Defer it.  It’s a matter of timing.  For any given reason today may no longer be the best day for a certain task.  Postponing is a strategy.  Rescheduling simply changes a tasks importance temporarily.  Putting a task in suspension only makes it possible to bring it forward when circumstances demand.

4.       Design it out.  You may find yourself doing things regularly that you either find disagreeable or are no longer good for you to be doing.  If you are smart enough to put in someone else’s job description or in a place where it is done by someone else then it ceases to be your burden.  Freedom has its price.  Deciding is the first step.

Granted exercising any of these 4 D’s is not an overnight death wish for your do lists.  However, anything you can do to shorten or eliminate a do list is a step toward greater freedom for you to pursue higher levels of business practice.  Every level up can make you more money. 

After working for years, owning and managing a service business from Monday through Saturday and actively participating on Sunday in my religion, I would wake up hating Monday, or was it hating to go to work on Monday?  As I realized this and resolved to solve the problem, I came upon what became my most profitable business management behavior.  I began to replace myself.  Over the next few weeks I identified the things I did that my workers could do, I carefully trained them to do these tasks and then I tested them by not coming to work for one day.

That was a Monday.  Here’s what happened and what was surprising.  The ship sailed smoothly.  All hands did their jobs.  When the cargo was unloaded and purchased I made more money than if I had been there myself.  (You realize that I didn’t really have a ship.  It was my business in operation.)  I couldn’t believe it when I looked at the report on Tuesday.  Oh, my system wasn’t perfect and everything didn’t go as planned.  It only required a little tweaking to smooth out the ruffles and by next Monday we were ready to try it again.

For the next few weeks, the business continued to pour out profits on Monday.  Dared I extend the test by adding another day, away?  You bet!  I stayed home on Tuesday.  To my delight, I was making money by being away from my business for two days that normally needed my full attention.  I accomplished this feat by using all of those 4 things (listed above) so that I could totally reduce my on the job “do it list” for real.

Getting your “stop-doing-it list” going is one of the first ways to increase the bring-home cash.  If you remember why you went into business, it was to remove the income ceiling.  To improve your world and continue to bring home the meat, you may do as I did and totally eliminate your place in the picture.  What don’t you really have to do?  What don’t you really need to know except as a summary report that you can check on your schedule?  Why are you still reading?  Start this minute to replace yourself!  If nothing else you’ll have more time to make money other ways.  You may invoke synergy (1+1=3), but that’s another story.

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Yesterday I watched number 3 brother, dive into marriage for the second time.  As soon as they exchanged rings, they locked arms and did a soft-shoe tap dance down the hall singing Johnny Cash’s and June Carter’s version of “Jackson.”  “We got married in a fever, Hotter than a pepper sprout. . .”  Well, I can imagine, can’t I?”

I believe we surpassed the divorce/marriage national average, before Tim and Kelly married yesterday, at least in our family.  I, as of yesterday, am among four out of five brothers that have married twice.  Does this represent a trend?  It may be nothing to brag about but everything to write about.

Even the best marriage therapist will tell you that some divorces are justified.  When a wife brags to the sister of her husband of her excitement in her illicit affair  . . . what’s a girl to do?  She told the brother, he got a quick divorce.  In two of these family cases, the former wives took young children with them, poisoned their thoughts about their fathers and unknowingly, the father’s also divorced their kids.  The kids as adults remain loyal to the mothers and foreign to their dads.

You are not warned that events in the future will be tainted by divorce.  When your children marry. . . who’s the odd man out?  This is especially true when it comes to being included in wedding family photos, in the reception line or any other kind of participation in celebration in your kids wedding events.  It is never ending.  Oh, the unanticipated pains!

Speaking of pains, thinking of the kids, regardless of age, do you invite them to your next marriage and/or your former spouse?  Tim’s kids showed up and you can only begin to imagine the joy (?) they shared by witnessing their father’s marriage so quickly on the heels of his days ago divorce from their mother.  Some events mark changes.  What changes in his children’s lives may only be seen by those kids themselves and may never be credited to the cause.

Besides all that, we all hope that this marriage event marks new happiness in Tim and Kelly’s lives together.  History, of his brothers, proves that new wives get to deal with the baggage that we bring with us.  Bless them all.  God bless every divorced person with new hope and happiness.

I guess you can say “way-back-when” about something that happened 40 years ago.  Way back when I played soldier in an almost forgotten war in Southeast Asia I learned and perfected a secret mind technique that perhaps you can use to make things better in your life.

The last place on earth people might choose to go to do “personal development” is a war zone.  Chaos, mayhem, explosive and hostile environs, death and destruction; war isn’t just bad, it truly is the last place but that’s where it happened.

I guess you have to be there to know that fighting, killing and blowing things up, doing soldier things is like a “part-time job.”  You usually aren’t thinking of it that way when you are in the heat of battle with dirt flying, the rich smell of cordite and sweat hanging in the air.  But then there are the quiet moments.  There is also the calm before or after the storm when your weapon has been cleaned and loaded, your laundry taken care of, you’ve eaten the hot meal of the day and you’ve got free time.

If you are imagining with me, free time in any combat area is prized and used in all of the ways you can imagine.  A trip to the local village, card games, buying stuff on the black market that your own supply chain doesn’t have (like my green army nylon hammock I found more comfortable to sleep in).  Sleeping (ever popular) to catch up on the time you were awake during guard duty or on ambush.

I found that time could also be spent in reading, writing letters and thinking about life back in the world.  Most of us agreed that our participation in this war was not in the real world but some kind of bad dream, that we would wake up from and find ourselves home or “back in our world.”

I wish I could remember which books I got a hold of because it was in one of them that I discovered and began to use the mind secret that I will reveal shortly.  I know it wasn’t in the scriptures.  I had a miniature version that I carried in my shirt pocket that became water and sweat stained because it wasn’t fashionable to carry an umbrella out there.  Think of an umbrella as a big red spotted target and you’ll know why they weren’t issued to the army grunts.

One day, so many years ago, I read about the concept of creating things and events through the use of your mind.  I was shocked awake, already being awake; I became alert at a higher level.  I reread the passage to affirm what I’d read as truly there.  I looked around to make sure I was still in camp in a warring state and then my mind began to ponder what I’d read.

I put the book in my pack and took a walk and thought.  We were scheduled to go on patrol so I grabbed my radio.  No, not the pocket portable radio, the one we used to keep in contact with our company or to call in support.  It had an antenna that stood about two or three feet above my head.  The radio was small in weight compared to the battery pack but it had to be carried on a pack frame and whole thing weighed about forty-five pounds.  The hand set was clipped to the shoulder strap and had to be unclipped to use.  When we saw action the handset usually never left your hand.  Your free hand wasn’t, it held your rifle.

That uneventful patrol gave me time to think about the power of the mind as explained in my book.  When we returned I got my book out to see if my thoughts we true.  Except for a small point or two I’d gotten it right so all I really had to do was learn to apply what I knew.

The very next day was quiet, too, so I took some time to go through the steps of making real things happen by the use of my mind.  I wouldn’t be telling you this story if nothing happened, would I?  Well, it did!  I can’t exactly remember what the first thing was but it was impressive enough for me to continue using this technique, so I practiced almost daily.

Carrying the radio was usually a job for the newest member of the squad.  Why?  Because with a 30 or 40 pound normal soldier pack, it represented carrying double your load.  If your squad was stationary you’d only be carrying 45 pounds more than everyone else.  You guessed it, that’s how I got my first radio.  But here’s the deal, it also gave me the ability to hear what was going on throughout the company.  Information (even then) is a powerful asset.  I was able to not only hear what was going on but I would be first to call in aide if we got into trouble.  I wish I could tell you how many times I called in Medivac helicopters to carry comrades back to aid stations.  You never forget seeing that first bullet wound or the foot hanging on by a bloody string that sprung “booby-traps” caused.

When you are able to keep your head when chaos reigns  . . . a clear headed radioman is a real asset to the squad, platoon or company.  I decided that moving to the company headquarters would put my scalp in a safer position.  I remember firing up the mind technique to initiate this event.  In a very short time I moved into the communications tent at the company headquarters!  It was not a happy coincidence; I had engineered it in my mind!  Talking for the company commander was a skill which I developed quickly.  Not only did we coordinate activities on the squad, platoon and company levels but we also reported to the battalion regularly.

It wasn’t long before I was telling the more experienced operators (we worked in shifts) how to shorten their broadcasts (the bad guys would intercept long broadcasts, which would compromise us) with each radio transmission.  I know this sounds like I’m bragging (and perhaps I am) but really it is an illustration of how the secret mind technique works.  All of this began by fastening my mind on things I wanted to happen and then giving them a non-physical push.  Hey, I did lots of other things by literally “willing” them to be done, right there in the heat of battle.  I practiced on myself in the beginning, expanded it to others and then I stretched the boundaries and making things or making them happen became borderless.  In the process, of course, I discovered the rules beyond those that I found in my book that made it safe for anyone to do.  I began to teach some of my buddies these techniques and watch as they got good at it.

Back in the “world” it’s amazing how much you can forget.  It may be quieter but it is life in a hurry.  I got back into college, chased my soon-to-be wife and ran a business.  I chose not to talk about the horrors of war and along with it the things I learned there.

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How being open to experience can add dollars to your pocket and wealth to your life.

It’s amazing that it has taken almost a whole life to appreciate the value of experience.  In mere moments I’m going to reveal the secret answers to five questions about experience that if I’d known them in my twenties would have made me a millionaire several times each decade since.

1. What can you do with experience?  You can ignore it.  You can lose it. On the other hand, you can use it and benefit directly and indirectly.
2. Who has experience you can benefit from?  You, check your best and worst memories, and of course, that of others. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.  (You can bet she told her kittens about stoves and what they do.)
3. How do you get experience?  If you have the advantage of longevity, then you can have it yourself.  However, you don’t have to get old to have experience.  You might need to be a little bolder if you choose to buy it.  If you don’t have the coins to buy it outright then be bold enough to rent it.  There remains one more option: when you know that someone else has it, you can borrow it.   (I know that’s how my hand and power tools find themselves in basements and garages of neighbors, friends and relatives.  Oh, oh, looks as though I’ve got tools that I borrowed, too!)
4. Which experience is the most valuable?  ~~ The one you put to use. ~~ can you say IMPLEMENTATION?  I imagine there are many graveyards filled with folks who yet have unrealized experiences and unshared wisdom.  Unless proved otherwise, experience is for the living.  If you are among the living then of all things, get experience!
5. What is good enough?  Being open to a wide range of experiences only makes you a bigger person.  As such, you have more to give and can accept more of life in all of it’s consequences.

“There were once four members of an experience team:  Everyone, Someone, Anyone and No-one   Like all experiences there are some important things to do,  Everyone was really busy and was sure that Someone had more time to do most of these things, but Someone thought Anyone could do them.

However Anyone couldn't do them, and so unless Anyone made Someone realize that Someone was the best person to do those things, Everyone ended up allocating the things to No-one.  Sadly No-one wasn't very good at getting these things done, so the result was a disaster, which impacted Everyone.   Everyone ended up angry with Someone, because Everyone knew that Someone could do the things better than No-one.”

 

Being open to experience is everyone’s job.  You know who you are!

In the middle 70’s I owned and operated a service business in Orem, UT that mainly operated in Utah Valley.  In those days, the main businesses were Brigham Young University, Geneva Steel and farming.  Naturally, many smaller businesses serviced the people living in the surrounding towns.  My business served other businesses and local residents. 

One day Chuck Coonradt knocked on my office door.  That was unique because although my office was right on State Street (a main thoroughfare) I hardly ever had anyone, that wasn’t invited, visit me.  As we got acquainted I learned that Chuck was a distributor for Success Motivation Institute (SMI) a producer of business and personal development products out of Waco, Texas.  He commenced to try to discover which program for which I was qualified. 

A big part of my business life involved not only my own personal development but also that of my employees, so I became a client.  Eventually, I became a distributor for SMI and that’s how I met Robert G.  Allen, but that’s another story, for another time.

On that first encounter with Chuck, of the many things I learned about him was his approach to time management.  This one, special unintended, lesson came to me with our deciding on the date and time of our next appointment.  Looking at his calendar, Chuck mentioned how his next appointment with his barber may just interfere.

APPOINTMENT WITH HIS BARBER!  Yes, he said that every few weeks he’d visit his barber to make sure his hair was always in good shape.  In those days, Chuck’s hair was abundant and unique in style.  Let’s say, in a crowd, you could always find Chuck even if you didn’t know him.

Chuck managed time, probably still does, as a master.  That day I learned to place priorities on important and repeating tasks.  No one would ever accuse me of being a time management master but I am rarely late for meetings, when I’m on, I work and when I’m off, I relax.  I credit my daddy for teaching how to work and Chuck for awakening me to priorities.  However, I usually get my haircut when my hair begins to bug me.

If you learned something special from the real Chuck Coonradt, I’d be glad to hear about it, so feel free to leave your comments.  He’s still out there as Google will show you (over 19 thousand times!).

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