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Another Rule of 3 entry
Ben Kuypers points out that you are either Building and Managing or Blaming. You want to do more of the first two.
We are running a “Rule of 3” contest in which contractors who post three things they make sure they do, every day, will be entered in a draw to win a Festool cordless carpenter’s saw.
Here’s a humorous (and TRUE) entry from Ben Kuypers, Kuypers Design Group…
Ben wrote…
Each day you are either (1) ‘Building’ (marketing, calling, following up) and (2) ‘Managing’ (doing your site visits, scheduling, paperwork). Or if you are not, you doing (3)‘Blaming’ (making excuses why you were not doing 1 & 2).
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Here are my three vital tasks on a seemingly never ending list of daily tasks:
1. Play safe.
2. Keep a positive attitude.
3. Take care of your self so you can take better care of others.
My Rule of 3:
Show up.
Love it. As Woody Allen said, “Ninety percent of life is showing up.” Who needs another two rules?
Here are the most important things to me
1-give clients/employees and yourself 100% of your effort everyday or don’t bother. Listen to complaints/suggestion from clients or employees.
2-ensure you are continually training and educating yourself and your crew or design staff Etc, on new methods of installation, design and customer interaction. Asking yourself “is this the best we can do? Would I be happy if this was done in my house?”
3- ENJOY your work. Help your employees ENJOY their work. If you enjoy it you will take more pride in what you do and you will produce a better product.
Here are my 3
1- give your employees/ your clients/ yourself 100% effort or don’t bother. No one deserves something half thought out
2- make sure you’re up to date on products and techniques and practice them to make yourself and your product better.
3- enjoy the work. If you don’t enjoy it, it will show. Yes there’s some parts of the job that you won’t like but you need to be able to enjoy the process and the people you work with. This one goes along with communication.
Rule of 3
1. A morning review of your daily and weekly tasks is critical. Minimize putting off to tomorrow what needs to be completed today.
2. Constant and updated communication to all project stakeholders is paramount.
3. Make everyone around you smile at least once a day.