“Effectiveness is the capability of producing a desired result or the ability to produce desired output.”
How does one produce anything?
One utilises resources
time + energy + physical resources + tools + labour + knowledge + skills, etc
To produce anything one has to manage resources
To effectively produce something is to effectively manage resources
Everything I’ve learnt about effectiveness and productivity is that it’s not mere function of time or effort
Time is extremely limited; You have no time advantage over others; This is not how you 10x your results
Effort is very limited; You only can exert so much more effort then others do
Serious one eventually learns that there’s so much more to effectiveness
Indeed effectiveness is resource management
It’s you learning to best utilise resources available to you:
-you time
-your energy
-your effort
-your capacity to learn
-your financial and social resources
-your employees, or even your employer (e.g. the opportunity you have received on the market)
The first question to ask when attempting to accomplish anything is HOW TO UTILISE AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Not asking that question hinders your results
It’s not the first question we ask, unfortunately
It’s understandable
We have our time and our will taken away from us by the society, in exchange for ability to function in it and be protected by it
The time comes to reclaim it: and we attempt that slowly
We start by reclaiming some of our will
We undertake the uphill battle of reclaiming our attention
We go through this entire war to get our time back: time others took, and time we fail to claim for ourselves, time we fail to NOT waste
See?
We are quite destitute
It’s difficult to manage resources one doesn’t have
Therefore i understand why that question is not asked first
Poor doesn’t wonder where to invest the millions he doesn’t have
When you free yourself from the grip of scarcity you find yourself with resources to manage
Your effectiveness should depend on how you manage those resources
Don’t be a fool with it
Ask yourself: how can I best utilise those resources?
And what do you find?
You want to put your time to something that’s remunerative
And remunerativeness of that should depend both on the outside and the inside: outside being the world, inside being you — and how you two relate
In other words — what is your greatest talent that the world should perhaps care about
WHAT CAN YOU GIVE TO THE WORLD
and is that the best use of your time?
You have to be extremely objective
You have to measure everything
You have to measure everything so that you are as objective as you can be
If your business loses liquidity — it loses ability to function
To lose ability to function is to lose; The business which doesn’t function is no longer a business
Thus
If you fail to complete the task — it is NOT completed
What is not completed is useless
Therefore you squandered your precious time-resources and energy resources — and gotten nothing in return
You can put a lot of time into something — then learn that it’s unfeasible — and give up with nothing to show for your efforts
You can put a lot of time and energy into something — then run out of energy, be unable to complete the thing — and have nothing to show for your efforts
You can put a lot of time and energy and hope into something — then DIE before it’s ever finished; Your time is obviously limited; There’s a plausible possibility that you’re run out of time like you’d run out of money — and have nothing to show for it
We are extremely delusional with our resources
We think we have more money then we do
We think we have more time then we do
This is why we have to MEASURE those things,
because we’re innately not good with numbers
because we innately think we’ll live forever
because we can’t bear the weight of death and impermanence, and consequent urgency of life
that’s why you must commit to objectivity
because it’s not a natural state for you, being objective
You only have so much capital, so much energy, and so much time
You want to measure every $ spent
Every WATT of brainpower spent
Every hour every day every month spent
Because if you don’t measure it — you can’t know if you’re getting a good deal for your precious resources
Because that’s what life is — a never ending value exchange
I give you milk from my cow and you give me your firewood
She takes care of his children and his cave and he takes care of the mammoth on her table
He protects his people and his people harvest crop for him
You invest years of your life to acquire education and be desirable on the market
He starts his business trying to tread his own path, and she uses the existing structure by employing herself in an existing business
She writes and paints and they read and buy her paintings
And he buys a car and gets to job faster
And she buys more cloths and goes on a date
And he buys play-station and a beer and relaxes
And then he codes an app which you should use soon
And you use that app to facilitate your work-flow
After you’re done with the work you go buy some organic milk
…and the life goes on
If you don’t measure transactions you’re making — you will be making disadvantageous transactions
You will overpay for useless garbage
You will waste energy where you could have used a smarter way, or hire smarter men
You will waste time on ventures which are too time consuming to ever be profitable
You will make those mistakes because you didn’t study your transactions, you didn’t study the market,
You’re the fool who buys overpriced companies on the stock market, seeing their value seemingly go up — then loses money and curses life
You’re the same with your time and energy: hopeful for some wonderful returns for your work, hoping to start a business in a year and be a billionaire and what not — then giving up after two years and no results yet
Because you never measured and never studied your transactions and the objective value of your resources, you were merely winging it, you were HOPEFUL
The reality doesn’t care about your hopes
Therefore from this day on you will measure EVERYTHING
You will measure HOW MUCH TIME it took you to do this and that
You will measure if it’s the right use of your time
You will measure your spendings and consider if the money could have been allocated in a better place
This applies both to your business and to your LIFE
Was the euro-trip really worth it?
And you will measure your energy, which you waste on toxic relationships and frustrations and fucking nonsense
And you will measure your own talents — separating your market value from your vain self-image
And you will do what you’re good at — and what the world cares about — rather then what you hoped you were good at and hoped the world would care
You will measure everything
You will be objective from this day on
Because life’s short
You will have spend it before you know it
Might as well get the best deal for it that you could get
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