It's Getting Silly

It’s Getting Silly

Warren Buffett, the great investor said the following “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything”.

Going back around three decades, business life was a little different.

Look at this table and it’s not exhaustive

Pre 1990

Now

Face to Face

Face to Face

Telephone Call

Telephone Call

Letter

Letter

Fax

e-mail

Mobile phone call

Text

Whats App

Messenger

Linkedin

Twitter

Snapchat

Instagram

YouTube

 

And it is not just other businesses or people trying to contact us, there are also all the companies marketing and advertising in targeted ways.

·        Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn).

·        Microblogging (Twitter, Tumblr).

·        Photo sharing (Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest).

·        Video sharing (YouTube, Facebook Live, Periscope, Vimeo).

The secret of course is differentiating between what is useful, needed and effective compared to time wasting activities. Turning our attention to only key tasks leading to success and saying no to anything that is superfluous is paramount.

So, we should stop saying yes to interrruptions or tasks that give us little or no result.

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