[[:encoded, "Today we are going to talk about Optimizing Effective and Efficient Behavior for Increased Success. Ask any successful business owner or entrepreneur and they will tell you one of the number one rules to optimizing the success of a business starts with producing effective results with the greatest efficiency. \n\nSo how do you improve your career or business by improving effectiveness and efficiency? We begin by reviewing the difference between the two terms.\n\nEffectiveness is the building block, while efficiency is the process of refinement. The better you become at effecting positive results with the greatest efficiency of effort, the bigger asset you become - and so does your business. \n\nOptimizing effectiveness and efficiency doesn’t have any relation to IQ or intelligence levels, it‘s really an awareness of your habits. It’s a delicate balance between effecting positive results with the least amount of energy expenditure. This essentially means that you expend the least amount of energy with the largest return - while effectively creating the desired result. \n\nImproving effectiveness and efficiency may require improving organizational skills, maintaining a greater focus, task delegation, getting eight hours of sleep every night, or any other number of factors. Although adjustments vary from person to person, the factors remain constant and compile a set of success principles. Begin working on increasing your effectiveness and efficiency today and enjoy the benefits you receive as a result. You'll find that you will accomplish more in less time and feel great about your progress every day. \n\nAt www.AccountabilityCoach.com, you have access to at least 12 free personal and professional development resources you can take advantage of right now. To help keep you focused on the activities that produce the results you want, subscribe to The Accountability Coach Blog at www.AccountabilityCoachBlog.com. Invest in the 30-day Self-study Course so you can begin achieving your goals in the time frame you want so you can have the life you want. \n\nAim for what you want each and every day!"]]
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(upbeat music) - Hello, and welcome to the Accountability Coach podcast, where we will discuss topics, issues, questions, and ideas related to having a totally balanced and successful life. This is Ann Bakrak. Today we are going to talk about optimizing effective and efficient behavior for increased success. Ask any successful business owner or entrepreneur and they will tell you one of the number one rules to optimizing the success of a business starts with producing effective results with the greatest efficiency. This may not seem like a concern if you don't own your own business, but even as an employee or homemaker, your success is writing on your ability to perform with the greatest effectiveness and efficiency. Whether you are an employee or a business owner, it is your goal to be as effective as you can with the greatest efficiency. If you're an employee, the more effective and efficient you are, the greater asset you present to your employer. As a business owner, the more you can optimize these two factors, the greater return on investment you will realize in your business. So how do you improve your career or business by improving effectiveness and efficiency? Well, let's begin with the reviewing the difference between the two. Effective. Effective really means producing a decided, decisive or desired effect. Effective emphasizes the actual production of or the power to produce an effective, I'm sorry, an effect or result. Efficient. Acting or a potential for action or use in such a way as to avoid loss or waste of energy and effective, I'm sorry, effecting, producing or functioning. Effectiveness is the building block. While efficiency is the process of refinement, the better you become at affecting positive results with the greatest efficiency of effort, the bigger asset you become and so does your business. Optimizing effectiveness and efficiency doesn't have any relation to IQ or intelligent levels. It really is an awareness of your habits. It's a delicate balance between affecting positive results with the least amount of energy expenditure. This essentially means that you expand the least amount of energy with the largest return while effectively creating the desired result. Take Henry Ford, for example. Here is a man that was not well-educated but knew that in order to build a successful business, he needed to be effective and efficient. Granted, Ford had other skills that contributed to his success, but he was obsessed with optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of his assembly line in the interest of the success of his company. This obsession led to constant production procedure refinements that were unheard of at the time. Ford understood that quality of effectiveness and high efficiency were vital to building the best car with the least amount of wasted energy. Over a century later, Ford built one of the largest and most successful car manufacturers in the world. While many of his peers at that time thought his ideas were impossible, his innovation still remained a standard in the modern car manufacturing industry today. Optimizing your effectiveness and efficiency is vital to your success, even if you are not a Bill Gates, Donald Trump, or even a Henry Ford. Your personal life depends on it and so does your professional life. Let's start by discussing improving effectiveness. What does this actually mean? Well, in the most basic terms, you must first learn how to create positive effects, change, or results. Though, by definition, you could be effective at producing negative effects. However, our focus is on becoming proficient at producing positive effects. The better you become at effectively creating desired results, the better your professional and personal life becomes. So, how do you know if you are being effective? Well, the first step is to ask yourself what kind of actions are you actually taking? If the goal is to produce a desired result, every step between the initial action and the completed action needs to be in support of the desired result. Recall a situation or project that produced a less than optimal result. If you go back through the series of actions that lead to the result, you can pinpoint what might have triggered the shift from the direction of positive results to not non-effective results. When the trigger can be identified, you can learn from that experience and be more effective in future situations by changing or avoiding the action that created that negative result. Being effective is nothing more than really a series of evaluations of past results to identify and separate the successful actions from the negative actions. This evaluation process not only applies to your professional life, it applies to your personal life as well. Your career or your business is only as good as you are, which is why self-improvement is a vital part of your professional success. If you cannot learn to affect positive results, the success of your business will be limited. For optimal success, a dedication to improving effectiveness in your personal life is really important. Don't ever think your career or business doesn't have anything to do with you personally. Remember, the effects that are created in your professional life are a direct reflection of you. Every situation, whether professional or personal, deserves adequate evaluation for your improved success. Okay, now let's discuss efficiency. Effectiveness is the building block and efficiency is the process of refinement. So think of it as a sort of horseing carriage. Improving efficiency isn't possible until you actually learn how to affect results. While it's possible to be effective without being efficient, only having one of the two strengths is like missing the other piece of the puzzle, to truly be a force to be reckoned with and to grow your business, you must be able to affect positive results with the greatest efficiency. We all have the same number of hours in the day to complete our tasks, so you must learn to produce desired results with the least amount of energy lost. This is probably one of the most common concerns I hear from my clients. They wonder how they can do more under time constraints. I ask every person that I work with the same question, how are you spending your time? In order to make more time and become better at what we do, we must learn to improve our effectiveness and efficiency. Although most people resist it, time management or calendaring is a great tool for improving effectiveness and efficiency. When you put everything in your calendar and honor it, you'll find your focus improves because you have daily tasks staring at you right back in your face in black and white. Schedule everything in your calendar, maybe even including showers in the beginning, drive time, calls, marketing time, client interviews, lunches, and exercise time. For every task, add a 10 minute to maybe even a 30 minute buffer. This buffer will serve to add peace of mind if unexpected delays come up. If you're actually running ahead of schedule, then you can get a head start on the next task and actually complete more in less time. Improving effectiveness and efficiency may require improving organizational skills. Maintaining a greater focus, task delegation, getting eight hours of sleep every night or any other number of factors. Although adjustments vary from person to person, the factors remain consistent and compile a set of success principles. Begin working on increasing your effectiveness and efficiency today and enjoy the benefits you receive as a result. You'll find that you will accomplish more in less time and feel great about your progress every single day. Thomas Edison, an American inventor said, "Time is really the only capital that any human being has "and the only thing he cannot afford to lose." Well, my hope for our time together is that you got value and an idea or two that will help you be even more successful, professionally and personally. You might be wondering what to do next. Well, take advantage of the ideas that you wrote down from this podcast. On www.accountabilitycoach.com, you have access to at least 11 free personal and professional development resources you can take advantage of right now. Review the 30-day self-study course so you can discover for yourself how to focus on your highest payoff activities that produce the biggest results in the shortest amount of time so that you can experience that feeling of true and total success and enjoy a fantastic quality of life. This program is effective and powerful at improving every area in your life in 30 days' time. This program will help you change bad habits into habits that will lead you to achieving all of your personal and business goals. Aim for what you want each and every day. Until next time, make it a great day today and every day. Thanks for listening. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
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