Ways to distinguish yourself – #123 Find a second reason to do anything significant
By Rajesh Setty on Mon 17 Apr 2006, 1:15 AM – 2 Comments
When you start any significant initiative all you need is one “good reason.” Next time, change the game. Find another important reason to do whatever you are planning to do. Try to do this even if the first reason you have got is REALLY good enough to engage in this initiative. Let me try to generalize this even further. Make this a fun exercise. Even for simple things that you do in your everyday life try to find a second reason to do it.
Let me give some examples (ranging from sophisticated to whacky)
Second reason: Try to collect frequent flyer miles
Third reason: Meet old friends in different cities
Fourth reason: Watch latest movies on the flight and get caught up on entertainment
2. You commute about an hour to your work everyday
Second reason: You can listen to the latest audio books and get caught up on reading
Third reason: You can use a hands-free phone and talk to some long lost friends
3. You take out garbage every friday
Second reason: Go to the farthest dumping place and treat this as an exercise
Finding a second,third or fourth reason to do the same thing will not only stretch your creativity and imagination but will also show you how you can “leverage” yourself better. There is one thing that is common to everyone on this earth – each person has only 24 hours in a day. However, we also know that different people get different levels of value out of those 24 hours. One common factor that high-achievers have is that they can get higher leverage out of everything that they do. We can all get higher leverage only if we can think and act differently. Imagine the same eight hours of work that you put in everyday producing multiple returns rather than one. Can this be done? Of course yes! Does it take a lot of discipline to do it? You bet!
All the best!
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The Legs | Life Beyond Code on March 11th, 2010
[…] Second, use the same principle in the opposite fashion. Start finding legs (reasons) for pursuing your passion. The more legs (reasons) you find, the stronger the conviction (table) to pursue the dream. To start the journey, simply start finding a second reason to do anything important. […]
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