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My Dad has had a saying by Peter Drucker taped to his computer monitor. He has had it for years. The card it is on is old and yellow, I can even see where he messed up when he typed it and had to type over the mistake.

“You are efficient when you do things right. You are effective when you do the right thing.”

My Dad is one of the most efficient and effective workers I have ever known.

I love this saying.

I have started asking myself this question when I am working on a project.

Sometimes I’m efficient, sometimes I’m effective.

And yes, sometimes, I’m neither.

Which one are you?

Are you efficient?

Are you effective?

Are you both?

Is one of these things more important than the other?

I think it probably depends on what you are doing.

If you need to get a lot of things done it is probably more important to be efficient.

If you have one or just a few very important things to get done, effectiveness is probably more important.

Take time and examine your tasks and decide which you need to be, do you need to be efficient or do you need to be effective?

Then structure your work or your day to meet your “eff” goal.

A caveat here, it is possible to be efficient at the wrong things. So be careful.

A final point. It is sometimes okay to do things that are not efficient or effective.

Here’s an example: It is not very efficient to let your kids help you paint the living room. Its probably also not very effective to let them help… make sure they actually put the paint on the walls and not on each other!

I would argue, however, that letting them help will pay “eff” dividends down the road.

I titled this article Efficient vs. Effective, but I think it should probably read Efficient OR Effective.

It is a simple concept but so very powerful.

So what do you want to be?

Efficient?

Effective?

Both?

Decide and go be!

What is self confidence?

Is it; an unfailing belief in your abilities?

Is it; the ability to persevere when things look hard?

Is it; the willingness to continue no matter how bad things are?

Is it; having the confidence in yourself to go on when no one else thinks you can or should?

Short answer – yes.

Longer answer – y e s. Ok, ok, that’s corny.

Self confidence is all those things.

So where does it come from?

For some people it comes from inside naturally with no conscious work.

For others its something that has to be developed.

For still other people self confidence is something that they have to search and search for.

Some never find it and their life suffers because of the lack of it.

Which one of those people are you?

Is it hard to pick just one?

I know for me it is, in some areas of my life my self confidence just comes naturally.

In other areas I have had to work hard at developing the confidence in myself.

So what’s the key for you in finding and growing your confidence?

I wish there was one single answer that would fit everyone.

The truth is that the key is different for everyone. Each person has to find their own, fortunately you don’t have to conduct that search by yourself.

Here’s who you have.

Co-workers: Find someone at work who you trust to be honest and helpful.

Friends: Friends are an often overlooked source of meaningful help. Its easy to ask them to help you move, not so easy to ask for help with some serious. FInd a friend you can ask.

Family: They have a built in desire for you to succeed, take advantage of that.

Me: My whole purpose is to help you. All you have to do is ask.

Yourself: Yes, you. You are your own greatest strength. Use your strength, overpower the inner voice that says you can’t do it. Use your strength, convince, yes convince yourself, that you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Your coach,

Mike