How to Focus Your Time for Success

Jurgen Wolff

Everybody has patterns of behavior. Patterns can include feelings, thoughts, and images as well as actions. Not surprisingly, doing the same thing again and again results in the same outcomes again and again. Of course, there are also positive patterns. You may know people who always land good jobs or always drive safely.

People have certain patterns for how they use their time, too. For instance, some people will always tackle first the task they think will be easiest, whereas others always start with the one they think will be most difficult.

Surprisingly, people tend to repeat their old patterns even when the outcomes aren’t positive. People tend to be aware of other people’s patterns, but not ...