By Ziad K Abdelnour: Real Productive Tips that Should Help You Stay Ahead of the Curve:

• Wake up early, sleep early and avoid the rat race
• Prioritize: Prioritize and do what is most important first; the rest will come
• Focus:Avoid spending your day doing things like making phone calls, holding meetings and brainstorming or considering options
• Choose carefully the people you want to work with
• Learn how to delegate: If you are running a company, don’t always try to sit in the driver’s seat yourself
• Learn to say no and never say maybe
• Stop wasting your time with irrelevant meetings: Meetings for me are a total waste of time unless you are closing a deal
• If you have to have a meeting, follow up with it
• Stop Obsessive Social Media Networking: I work hard to figure out what I can do for someone else when I meet them. Who can I connect them to? What can I do for them

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