To Be An Effective Worker: Bite More Than You Can Chew.
This is how to work every day; it is how I work and operate. Don’t think small. Always overwhelm yourself. Most people do the opposite. They say, ‘don’t overwhelm yourself,’ so you give yourself two things to do so you won’t be overwhelmed. No, that is wrong. Give yourself ten things to do, then achieve six and fail in four or achieve four and fail in six. Go to bed with a sense of failure. Think, ‘Yesterday I failed, I only did four things.’
You haven’t heard this before, right? Every day, have a sense of failure; the happy failure, not the bad type.
There is a bad sense of failure, and there is a happy failure. An example is this: “Oh my, today I was supposed to visit or evangelize to twenty people. I did only ten. God help me tomorrow.”
Be that kind of failure – the failure whose failure rate exceeds everyone around in success. Don’t let people fan you and say, ‘ah, you tried’. Tell them, “Stop it. I didn’t even do half, I only did eight, and I had twenty to do.”
Understand that the only way you can do this is by always giving yourself tasks that are more than you. It has to be more. Stop that mindset that says, ‘don’t over do.’
Bite more than you can chew! As you’re leaving, after a work day, everyone should know there is a lot more to be done the next day. That’s how you should go. Stop pacing yourself the way you do because you’ve done that and become lazy. You went with the idea; “let’s pace ourselves so we won’t disappoint.” Then when you do a little, you go home and say, “We’ve done it. High-fives, everyone.” It has damaged your psyche.
If you will be a daily failure, you’ll be a monthly and yearly success. But if you want to be a daily success, you will be a monthly and yearly failure.
Once the goal you set for yourself every day is too low, you’re going to be like a failure at the end of a week, month or year when you look at the total of what you’ve done. It will be too poor. When you set out to achieve ten things every day and only achieve four or six things, at the end of the period when you add up everything you’ve done, you are going to have exceeded almost everybody you know. So, set the bar very high. Forget this overemphasis on setting the bar too low so that ‘everyone is a winner.’ Don’t do that to yourself.
