By Could you imagine a jet taking off on a runway full of junk? There is no way in the world you would ever step foot on a jet attempting to do that, yet that is the way most of us run our lives everyday. Like a jet trying to take off on a runway full of garbage, our runway to success is the environment we live and work in every day.
Everyday you go to work look at your workspace, your inbox, your voicemail, and your brain as your runway. Would you take off using those things as your runway – no way! If your desk if full of crap, if your inbox has hundreds or thousands of messages you have not dealt with, if you have crap running through your mind, you are destine for disaster.
Here is the easiest and most difficult thing we all need to do to achieve success both personally and professionally – clean up our runways. That’s it.
- Make sure your desk is spotless when you go home every night. You can throw away 80% to 90% of the crap on your desk – think about it, you haven’t touched it in weeks or months. If you do end up needing it later, just Google it or ask the pack-rat in the desk next to you for it.
- Make sure your inbox is empty every day when you go home. Either reply, delete, or save it in a subfolder. Deal with it and get it out of your inbox. Quit the procrastination!
- Get it out of your head and write it down on a list. Our brains are made for creating ideas, not storing them.
The same things apply at home. Here we talked about our work runways, but we also have our personal/home runways. Make sure the strip is clean or you will crash there as well.
Clean it up so you can build speed, take off and achieve your dreams!
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