Set up Systems to Serve You
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- How to Get Ahead in Life
- Find your Own Angle for Success
- Start Succeeding Early
- Do Not Re-Invent the Wheel
- Of Good and Bad Debt
- Duplicate Your Success
- Building a Strong Foundation for Success
- Gaining and Sustaining Success Momentum
- How and When to Buy Influence
- Succeed through Authenticity
- Set up Systems to Serve You
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- Chasing the Wind of Success
- Is your Belief System screwing you up?
- What to do when you Lose it all?
We only have 24 hours in a day. We are limited in time, resources, abilities, talents and experience; but we want to get ahead in life. How can you get more out of those 24 hours, resources, talents and experiences? You set up systems to serve you.
Henry Ford capitalized on the assembly line system to produce cars more efficiently. He designed his manufacturing system to introduce efficiency and help roll out affordable cars faster from his production lines.
What kind of systems can you set up to be working for you 24/7 to introduce efficiency and effectiveness in your life or venture? This blog for example, is a simple system working for me. It is able to deliver value to my readers in 90 countries, 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
Footballers earn a lot of money, so do musicians, but have you ever spared a thought about the people who own the systems… the football franchises, the recording industry magnates etc. These people working behind the scenes earn a lot more; in fact they are the ones who pay the footballers and the musicians.
Having systems work for you is a major leverage for getting ahead in life. Unfortunately not many people obsess over setting up their own systems. If you do not obsess about setting up systems to serve you, you will be limited on how high you can ascend. Your own flesh and blood can only do so much.
Decide what vehicle you want to use to deliver value to others, and employ smart systems to serve you around the clock. Your system might be a computer program like in the case of this blog, or it may be a monthly arrangement with a professional e.g. a bookkeeper or cleaner.
Aim to have systems around what you do. Free your time for creativity and growing your venture, not getting stuck in a rut. What if you had hundreds of systems working for you 24/7/365 days?
The Internet is a good place to setup systems to serve you. You could setup a simple blog to act as your CV. You could setup a shop on the internet to be selling your goods and services even when you sleep. Please check out a couple of articles I wrote on how you can use the internet to serve you; 1) How to use Social Media for Personal Branding, 2) How to use Blogging for Personal Branding.
Think about your daily activities, especially if you run a business. Are there some of your actions that can be automated, delegated or outsourced? Could you create a system to do what you did yesterday? Aim to create a new system per week to make your work more efficient or effective. Examples of systems working for others include classified advertising, production lines, websites, subcontracting work, personal budgeting, automatic investment plans etc.
In Summary
To get ahead in life you need to release yourself from the mundane and repetitive tasks that can be done by someone else. Think of building systems and processes to serve you and multiply your efforts, ideas, talents and resources.
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nice article and to the point.
Thanks man
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this article afirms to me that its not all about working hard, working smart is what will do the trick. Thanks Daniel! Nice one!
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mmmmh. Nice challenge. Interesting stuff…
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
@ Alen – You can do it if you put your mind into it. How is Tanzania baba?
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mmmm interesting!
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
@ Paula – Go forth and set up thy systems!
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Makes a lot of sense Daniel. Keep on giving us the good stuff!
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
@ Linda – I hope you are well. Yeah, setting up systems while not an easy task, makes a lot of sense. Me reckons it is a worthy pursuit.
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Wow. so simple, yet so true and captivating!!
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
@ Dobah – Thanks man
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