1. Planning is prime—working clean with time
What to know: Planning is first thought, not after-thought. Right planning promotes right action, saves time, and unlocks opportunity. Planning entails the scheduling of tasks, which means being honest with time, respecting both your abilities and limitations.
What to do: Commit to being honest with time. Plan daily.
2. Arranging spaces, perfecting movements—working clean with space and motion
What to know: Creating ergonomic workspaces means more than making things look pretty. It means setting a place for yourself that allows economy of motion and consumes less physical and mental energy. The less you move, the more effortless your work will be and the more brain- power you can reserve for new work and new thoughts.
What to do: Commit to setting your station and reducing impediments to your movements and activities. Remove friction.
3. Cleaning as you go—working clean with systems
What to know: All systems are useless unless maintained. The real work of organization is not being clean, but working clean: keeping that system no matter how fast and furious your pace is. Working clean helps you work faster and better.
What to do: Commit to maintaining your system. Always be cleaning.
4. Making first moves—working clean with priorities
What to know: The present moment is worth more than a future one because present action sets processes in motion and unlocks others' work on your behalf.
What to do: Commit to using time to your benefit. Start now.
5. Finishing actions—working clean with obligations and expectations
What to know: A project that is 90 percent complete is zero percent complete because it’s not deliverable. Orphaned tasks create more work.
What to do: Commit to delivering. When a task is nearly done, finish it. Always be unblocking.
6. Slowing down to speed up—working clean with emotions
What to know: Precision precedes speed. A calm body can calm the mind.
What to do: Commit to working smoothly and steadily. Use physical order to restore mental order. Don't rush.
7. Open eyes and ears—working clean with your senses
What to know: Excellence requires both focus and awareness. Ambition, ability, and attunement can cultivate awareness.
What to do: Commit to balancing internal and external awareness. Stay alert.
8. Call and callback—working clean with communication
What to know: Efficient teams become an intercon- nected nervous system. Excellence requires active listening.
What to do: Commit to confirming and expecting confirmation of essential communication. Call back.
9. Inspect and correct—working clean with feedback
What to know: Mastery is never achieved; it is a constant state of evaluation and refinement.
What to do: Commit to coaching yourself, to being coached, and to coaching others. Evaluate yourself.
10. Total utilization—working clean with resources
What to know: The grand ideal of working clean is no wasted space, no wasted motion, no wasted resource, no wasted moment, no wasted person.
What to do: Commit to valuing space, time, energy, resources, and people. Waste nothing.
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