Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

LOW-VALUE ACTIVITIES
The saddest part of the research into employee work habits is not
just that people waste a lot of time at work. It is that in the 
other
50 percent of the time, when people are actually 
working
on com-
pany tasks and responsibilities, they tend to work on low-value,
low-priority tasks. As a result, they contribute little of value to
their companies. Low productivity leads to lower wages and fewer
opportunities.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are laid off from
large and small corporations, often from white-collar, midmanage-
ment jobs. Why is this? The answer is simple. The companies have
finally learned that they are paying high salaries to people who are
producing very little of value. No company can survive very long
under these conditions, and these companies are determined to sur-
vive. So the redundant staff has to go.
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YOU CAN DO IT
If you are serious about becoming financially independent, or even
better, becoming a 
self-made millionaire
over the course of your ca-