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Be Efficient

Life is full of problems that separate the good from the better, and the better from the best. If you want to be among the best, then you have to be able to solve those of life’s problems that only the best can solve.

To become the best, you have to practice solving problems that only the best can solve. More often than not, the best can solve a problem that others cannot because they can solve the problem within the resources they have whereas the others cannot solve the problem because they do not have the resources.

Now you can amass vast resources, or you can learn to solve the problem with fewer resources. In the beginning, it is difficult to amass resources because no one is willing to invest their resources to you because you are as yet unproven. But on the other hand, to prove yourself you have to solve problems that distinguish you as the best. So therefore, those who can solve problems with fewer resources get the edge that allows them to distinguish themselves early on, and this leads to larger resources that allows you to solve bigger problems than others with the same amount of resources, and thus you keep distinguishing yourself.

If there are ten people, including you, and nine of them need two pages to write the answer to a particular problem, but you need only one, who shines out when there is only one page available for each person?

If there are ten people, including you, and nine of them need over an hour to do a task, but you need less than one, who shines out when there is only one hour to do the task?

If there are ten people, including you, and nine of them need more than a thousand dollars to solve a particular problem, but you can do it in under a thousand dollars, who shines out when the person paying for the job can only pay a thousand dollars?

If you can do something with less material, time and / or money than the rest of the crowd, then when there is a crunch, you end up getting the task done when the others cannot.

More often than not, if you practice making do with little, you end up with the most money saved, the most time available for leisure, and the most fun in the end.

So seek to minimize the resources you use as often as you can. Don’t you 200 gallons of water to bathe when you can do within 100. Don’t use wash dishes with 50 gallons of water if you can do it in 10. Don’t drag a task for an hour if you can do it in half an hour. Don’t spend two hundred dollars a month on discretionary items if you can make do with one hundred.

Always seek to make do with little so that ample is left over for the time of hardship, and for solving problems that you didn’t see coming.


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