give you and your spouse this wonderful, all-expenses-
paid vacation.
If you had this kind of incentive or motivation, what
would you do? You would probably be astonished at how
much work you could get done in that single day. You would
probably complete the top 20 percent of the tasks that you
had planned for the entire week.
With that kind of an incentive, you would not waste a
single minute. You would have no time at all for idle conver-
sation with your coworkers. You would start early and im-
mediately work through coffee breaks and lunch and
concentrate single-mindedly on clearing your desk by com-
pleting your most important tasks. You would become one
of the most productive people in your organization, virtu-
ally overnight.
This is a great exercise for you to practice on yourself.
This exercise just illustrates the fact that your efficiency
and effectiveness is largely a matter of choice. With a suffi-
cient incentive, you would be astonished at how productive
you could be, virtually in a few minutes. With a sufficient
incentive, and a decision on your part, you would almost
immediately become one of the most valuable people in
your organization.
The Law of Three
This principle is probably worth the cost and time of reading
this book. It is based on an amazing discovery that I have
made over the years, working with many thousands of exec-
utives and business owners. It is that, no matter how many
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