Discover Your Highest Value Activities
One of the most important keys to making your mark is discovering what your highest value activities are. Not all the activities you engage in bring productivity and effectiveness into your life. You must be crystal clear about the key activities which bring most value into your life. Discovering this sets you apart from the mass of humanity who engage in random activity with no sense of direction or purpose. It puts you in a league of your own in which every action is deliberate and every move is geared towards enabling you to bring your very best to the table.
Here are some quick ideas on how you can discover your highest value activities:
1. Think about your performance.
Past performance is the greatest indicator of your highest value activities. Your performance reveals the results of your efforts and thus enables you to measure what activities bring the most results. Performance reveals where your strengths lie and enables you to focus on key activities that develop your strengths.
2. Ask your colleagues at work or supervisor.
Your co-workers or supervisor at work can be a great resource for discovering your high value activities. The easiest way to get this information is during a performance review, appraisal or assessment. Such tools can be critical in enabling you to discover where your greatest strengths lie so that you can focus on them.
3. Ask your family and friends.
Nobody knows us better than those around us - our family and friends. In most instances, our family and friends have our best interests at heart and will tell us the truth when we sincerely want to develop ourselves. The people who observe us on a daily basis can provide valuable feedback that can enable us live more effective lives.
Once you get this information use it to enable you focus on your highest value activities.
