{"id":1886,"date":"2020-02-07T01:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1886\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T01:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:52:21","slug":"1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1886\/","title":{"rendered":"<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I described the practice of asking yourself each day what would make this day a success.”
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\n“I often tell the story of a Google director that explained this to me. He was successful and respected, and yet somehow also managed to work normal hours at a time when I was often working 8am to midnight. So I asked him how he did it. ”
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\n“He said, “I work on the most important thing first. And if I don’t get to the second thing, that’s okay because it was less important.””
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\n“It seems so simple, and yet I was failing to do it. I came in each day, and spent a couple hours on email. Then I spent several hours in meetings other people put on my calendar. Then I spent another hour on email responding to the responses from the morning. And then it was 6pm…and I had not started on the one thing I had to get done that day, which is why I was regularly working until midnight.”
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\n“My director ignored email that wasn’t relevant to his top project. He didn’t go to meetings that weren’t relevant. He annoyed a lot of people who wanted his attention, but he made the conscious decision to deliver results to his most important stakeholders. And that was his secret. ”
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\n“Who or what will you ignore to focus on your top priority? ”
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\n“#leadership #coaching #leadershipdevelopment #personaldevelopment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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