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With the power of 3 behind us, there's alot we can all achieve, whether it's in our personal or business lives.
Start with yourself.
What 3 things do you want to achieve:
- Today?
- This week?
- This year?
Pick one of the 3 things you want to achieve today. What 3 things are you going to do to further the progress towards each achievement?
Do the same for each of the other things you want to achieve.
Next, move on to your business. Reduce your business and its practises to the 3 core functions/principles. Then apply these 3 functions to 3 different areas of your business, e.g. marketing, client relations, project development. Then make 3 steps in each of the 3 areas you have chosen to improve your business.
By breaking down each step into 3 manageable parts, each step becomes less daunting, progress can be measured more effectively, and by reducing your view of your business to its 3 core fetaures, you are reducing your complicated business to its simplest form.
Allowing yourself to remember these 3 basic principles will allow you to be more effective in whichever area needs improvement.
If you want to take it further, look at 3 other people/business around you. What 3 things can you apply or learn from them that will benefit you?
3 more tips about the power of 3 from 3 different sources:
- Keep three lists of three. The first list has three things you will do today. The second is three things you’d like to get done, but aren’t essential. The third is three things that need to be done at some point. That way, when you’ve trogged through your days work, you don’t end up sitting twiddling your thumbs. (From Zen Habits)
- Three Weeks - that's as long as it takes to start reducing risks to your health with a lifestyle change. In a study of 31 overweight or obese men, half overcame their type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol after following a healthy diet and getting 45 to 60 minutes of moderate exercise one day a week for 3 weeks. And if you don't have 45 to 60 minutes to spare in one session, you could always break that time up into three shorter sessions and spread them out across the week. (From That's Fit)
- There are THREE Productivity questions I am interested in asking myself and my clients.
1) What do you hold yourself accountable to?
2) What is it you think you need to be doing more (or less) of?
3) What are you NOT engaged in that is pulling your focus, distracting you, and making it difficult for you to get things done? (From Your Best Just got Better)
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