You can increase your personal efficiency if you invest in continuous self development. You could learn through reading specific books or by attending trainings and seminars. Reading takes a lot of time and seminars are expensive. So how do you invest in continuous self development? Moreover, you don’t have enough hours at hand and time is slipping by.
What if you invested in just one percent daily acts of self development?
Invest in one percent daily acts, and by the end of the year you would have made an investment of________ %( Fill in the blank)
But the question is – how do you find time?
Can you learn during waiting times, which includes your commuting time, queuing time and travel time? I am sure if you look carefully you can treat these small packets of opportunities for self improvement rather than just spending your time doing nothing. Your travel time or your driving time can be your opportunity to catch up on the latest thinking on management, or to revise a topic of leadership which could help you at work.
So how could you do this?
Commit yourself to daily improvement by listening to audio learning programs. This can be done in your passive time, and you will be amazed at the incremental gain in your knowledge over a period of time. So take an audio book with you when you go out, and try to listen to your favorite topics between your waiting times. Then assess your efficiency at the end of just three months. Trust me, small packets of audio learning will make a big difference.
Take home lesson
The single most important lesson, I hope you take from this article is the need to make continuous improvement in how you do what you do as part of your everyday work activities. Audio learning offers you an easy option. Just plan and organize your spare time – after all, planning and organizing are known as the Siamese twins of management.
