SMART
You’ve heard the clichés:
- Work smarter, not harder --- like mental martial arts, find the way to use the momentum and inertia of the work itself to be better at it
- Make your objectives SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-based) – having precise goals allows you to accomplish more and know what you have accomplished – being busy is not the same thing as being productive
I define SMART as “practical intelligence”. You don’t have to be the most intelligent to be the smartest. But you do have to be smart to be exceptionally successful.
“None of us is as smart as all of us” – we will be EXCEPTIONAL when we most effectively put all our thinking together to meet our goals.