Are you effective or efficient?

Here are my favorite thoughts from The 4-hour Work Week. (besides hiring a virtual assistant in India to check my email for me). These are from the chapter on time management. I’m pretty sure I have experience in all of these… and not in a good way. How about you?

• Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
• Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important
• What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. Efficiency is still important, but it is  useless unless applied to the right things.
• Am I being productive or just active?
• Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible.

- Timothy Ferriss

1. Getting Things Done (get ‘er dunn)