Your own professional productivity and personal achievement depends on aligning what you KNOW with what you DO. When I left the high school classroom – I taught from 1995-2000 – a friend of mine gave me a book titled, “The Knowing-Doing Gap.” Years later, when I was traveling in London, I looked down while I was getting on the Underground (subway) and read a sign that almost made me stop:
Mind the gap.
And, that’s when I realized that merely surviving, and ultimately succeeding, comes down to identifying the “space” between here and there and crossing that space effectively.
How do you know if there’s a gap? Ask yourself these questions:
What do I need to know, that I don’t yet know?
Answer that question a dozen (or more times) and you’ll be on your way gathering information you can use.
What can I do today, in less than 15 minutes, to better understand my options?
Identify an action or two, you could do in the short-term, to get you closer to your goals.
To improve your productivity and achieve your goals, you have to know where you are and you must identify significant steps and meaningful milestones.
So, what are you going to do next?
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