Today is one of my busiest days a week at work. At the Clothing/dept store where I work today is one of the days when we get our shipment in. Now our store policy is "Door to floor in 24" which means that as soon as the shipment comes in the entire stockroom has to be empty by the end of the day. One of the many jobs I have there is running the mens department.
In the 8 hours I'm there minus the breaks and lunch I have to get all the mens clothes out underwear and all, create new "Features"(5) presenting the lastest gear of the season, seperate "Clearence" items from "Super Clearence" clean the area, to make it presentable, supervise and be a backup for the manager on duty. All while being polite and helping customers in a fast paced high clientle store.
I take my job seriously but sometimes I just dont think I can get it all done by myself in what actually breaks down to be maybe six and a half hours of consistent work at the least. But like I said, I take my job seriously. I KNOW that I didnt get to where I am now by being lazy and complaining. I got here by WORKING HARDER than the next person and taking on every CHALLENGE in my ever quest for SUCCESS.
My boss always tries to induce fear by asking me "are you sure you can get this done?" "do you think you'll need help?" But my answers are always "yes" and then "no" cause I KNOW I CAN do ANYTHING I PUT MY MIND TO and also knowing that only I CAN DEFEAT MY FEARS AND ONLY I CAN MAKE MYSELF SUCCESSFUL. I now live by the model: "WORK SMART, NOT HARD" Instead of complaing and asking for help or doubting my expectations I attacked my job like a lion on a gazzelle.
First thing I did was THINK. I took the tasks at hand and divided them by the time I had left. Next I mesaured my ENERGY, how much I had left at that time and how much I can muster up with a little rest. Then I divided my ENERGY amongs the tasks, multiplied, then applied.
Later my work was done and I had an hour left over to clean up and help usher in the night shift. Now I'm spent but nothing bets the satisfaction of work well done.
I very much like the "can do" attitude and unshakeable confidence you rock in your blogs, my brutha. I do like the process you shared as well, because I note this similarity amongst many successful and soon to be financially independent successful people: firt they think up a doable plan for them, including all the requisite components they can foresse. then they assess efficient energy expenditure. They confidently double check, triple check, but no more than a triple check in order to avoid paralysis by analysis. Then they go for it. Yooo if you can spare a minute? Peep out my blogs and drop comments on them. I have tons of blogs on a plethora of topics, so something should definitely catch your eye. I hope you click on all my social media links and take the few seconds needed to follow me and up my profile in the algorithms and SEO. You already know that social media hates hardest on Black men, so we have to support each other [ as long as we don't suck, like Tommy Sotomayor or somebody ].
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