10 Steps To Becoming A Machine At Work
3 min readAug 14, 2022
- Don’t Get Distracted — This time is for one activity only. Every other thing that comes in comes in will only be a distraction from the current task. If it is important, hard-workers will switch, prioritizing the new task to the point of abandoning the old. Otherwise, they will stay with what they were doing.
- Intentional Actions — Hard-workers go about everything intentionally. That means no accidental movie marathons. If they want to watch a movie they will watch it and be done afterwards. This allows them to keep their play time playful and their work time productive.
- Planned Time — Nothing they do is an accident. From the way they brush their teeth in the morning and the way they clean between their toes, to the way they run business decisions and run a multi-million dollar company, everything is planned. It may not always be the best choice, but it is no accident.
- Action Over Reaction — Hard-workers are proactive enough to address issues before they become problems. Be that in their relationship, in themselves or their work, a hard-worker will be attentive enough to notice when something is off right away. They do not do this as a reaction to something negative, which most people do, but rather because whatever is off is not what they want it to be and therefore warrants more actions.
