How To Maximize Your Results By Doing Something Significant First!

O GETLIFEMAPS.cOM Do Something Significant First How you begin something plays an important part in how effective it is in accomplishing its goal Significant: Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention Important, meaningful, momentous, notable st Why? When/How? At the start of your day FOUNDATION It creates a strong foundation Doing something significant first is like laying a strong, sturdy foundation for building something amazing on top of. Begin each day by working on a significant task first - this will likely be the thing you look forward to doing least. Result: Your days will become massively more productive A Avoid doing insignificant tasks first (Facebook, TV, the news) SEQUENCE At the start of of a talk/presentation Sequence matters When you put something significant first, all other (less significant) things that follow it tend to 'fall into place' better. In other words, little (insignificant) things tend to fill in the gaps left in the wake of bigger (significant) things - the opposite is not A talk or presentation should always begin with something important, attention-grabbing, and memorable. Result: Your audience will remember it - it sets the tone At the start of a project Get projects off to a great start by working on, and completing, something significant about the project first. Result: It creates positive momentum true. At the top of a page IMPORTANCE It defines what's important Place attention-grabbing headlines at the top of pages (websites, articles, newsletters, etc). Result: Readers will be inclined to read more Yes! We tend to give greater attention and importance to things that are first - first in time, first in position, etc. Put significant things first, and they'll be given greater attention and importance - which is what they should have. Significant First Actions: • Do something important • Say something meaningful • Share something notable • Show something engaging • Communicate something humorous "If everything is important, then nothing is." - Patrick Lencioni "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." - Mark Twain