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September 14 MMM Meeting

by Elena M. Rodriguez, Pacific Press International

The theme was leadership, and Kristina did a great job of leading us through the evening. The i Learning Global video presentation was from one of the true masters, Brian Tracy. He spoke about the 7 Responsibilities of Leadership.

The list, while short and presented quickly, was meaty and to the point. One of the responsibilities that seemed to resonate particularly with the group was the leader’s responsibility to set priorities, identifying key tasks and activities.

The group discussion included many great comments about that particular responsibility (number 4 of the 7 on Brian’s list).  Brian had talked about our infinite capacity to procrastinate by working on low priority tasks. If we have a list of ten things we want to achieve, and the priority tasks are numbers one, two and three, we’ll procrastinate by working on numbers eight, nine and ten.

One of the folks at the meeting reminded us that if those first three tasks are going to make us money, and the bottom tasks aren’t, we’d be better off diving right in to do the top three and paying someone else to do the low priority tasks. Or, if we are lucky enough to have employees and assistants on our payrolls — learn to delegate!

We should always ask ourselves, “What’s the most valuable use of my time now?” And remember what Brian Tracy said: “Once a minute is used, you can never get it back.”