Have a periodic quality check on what you are doing!

‘Don’t mistake activity with achievement’
John Wooden

The other day I was in a factory manufacturing computer parts. There is a separate department which picks up a product at random from the production line to check its quality conformance. If there is a deviation between the quality which is expected and the actual quality, corrective actions are taken. The company enjoys a very high degree of reputation among its clients.

May be we should also do a periodic quality check on what we are doing in our time. Like a factory is turning out products, we turn out our activities. Some activities may be value adding, some others may be a waste of our time. We need to notice such activities which are not required or which will not enhance the quality of our life.

If you are not careful in what you are doing, you will be very busy working, but achieve nothing!

Ask the power question every one hour: ‘What am I doing now? What should I be really doing? If this is not what I should be doing, why am I doing this?’
Sincerely do this quality check on you for three weeks and notice the difference in the quality of your focus!

N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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