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When you look at your personal and professional life, the most important decisions you will make revolve around how you invest your effort, time, and energy. There are only two things you can do with your time. You can spend your time in activity or productivity. Activities are things that consume minutes and hours and get you no closer to your goals and objectives. Productivity consists of those tasks that directly impact getting you from where you are to where you want to be.
Many studies have been done that show that most people spend 80 percent of their time on activity and only 20 percent of their time on productivity. If you can ever reverse this ratio, or even affect it slightly, you will instantly notice a huge jump in your productivity.
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