CHAPTER 6
PLAN
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment, and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
—THOMAS A. EDISON
You’ve probably heard the cliché that failing to plan is planning to fail. You can always change your plan, but you have to start somewhere. Having a plan allows you to better manage the choices you have. Do you know that the average office worker only spends 35 percent of an eight-hour workday on productive work? The rest of the time, or about five hours a day, is spent on any number of self-sabotaging things we do that keep us from being productive, such ...
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