Comments on: Success Principle #9 – Successful People Leave Things Undone

By: Jacob Duchaine

Jacob Duchaine — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:19:11 +0000

I agree. Being able to abandon some things in favor of important things is a good skill to have. It really helps to get things done.

By: Bowtrol

Bowtrol — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:40:02 +0000

Sometimes I find it hard to even decide what things are important and which are just urgent.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:15:23 +0000

Travel Guy, Working out priorities can be the hardest part. Just remember that line from the song by Rush:

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

Question is do you want to keep your power or let someone/something outside dictate your choices to you?

By: Travel Guy

Travel Guy — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:26:48 +0000

Interesting I should come across this post while trying to figure how I’m going to get all the stuff done that needs doing before year-end.

But it’s a good reminder!

Now all I need to do is decide what’s not going to get done

By: Runni

Runni — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:01:03 +0000

Successful people are also able ot visualize their success. Bob Probtor a reknowned philosopher talks about it in his article, available here.

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By: Thoughts & Philosophies » Less Will Always Be More

Thoughts & Philosophies » Less Will Always Be More — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:36:55 +0000

[...] Cree, at SuccessCREEations brought more than a little perspective in his post, Success Principle #9 â€“ Successful People Leave Things Undone. The irony is that we will accomplish more by attempting to do less. The key is to prioritize and [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:18:03 +0000

Rick, I gotta admit that sentence sounded clearer in my brain when I wrote it than when I now re-read it. It sort of reminds me of a verse in the Bible that I call the do-do verse.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

Only I'm not as clear.

By: Rick Cockrum

Rick Cockrum — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:23:43 +0000

Say that last sentence three times fast.:-)

But yes, I think you nail the distinction.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:25:58 +0000

Rick, I made the comment to a buddy of mine today, “I’m pretty deadline motivated.” He asked me if that was a polite way of saying that I procrastinate.

I think the distinction is that procrastination is putting off doing what you know you should be doing and putting off doing things that distract you from what you know you should be doing is staying focused.

By: Rick Cockrum

Rick Cockrum — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:34:13 +0000

I don’t know if I saw it somewhere or made it up, but when I used to say “Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” A procrastinator’s fantasy.

The point, though worded poorly, was most things are either unimportant in the long run or don’t really need to be done and just kind of fade away. Focus on the important things.