Jerrod James’s Reviews > Time Traps: Proven Strategies For Swamped Salespeople > Status Update

Pages 177-195 make the entire book. What is one’s purpose? What is the value of time? Are you ever stepping aside to smell the roses? Are you living in the past when your focus should be on the future? What truly is the reason you are here for this limited amount of time?

Create a list of questions to ask yourself weekly to keep progress on your endeavors, to check the pulse of your life

Failure is the best learning possible, and it all happened in the past. Allowing the negatives of failure to wear on affect your present day, suck your time up when the failure no longer exists in the present day.

Set extremely high goals, and set your standards for yourself higher. Those who live life and work too conservatively are squandered by their fear of failure.

Delete any non bottom line tasks from your day. Remove apps that distract you on personal phone. Only calls or texts from important people on personal phone.

Remove work email notifications. Remove audio notifications.

Say no more often. Say no to calls, reply back quickly but say not or push things off. Build your dam.

Encouraged you to write out all of these things you do in a workday.

I feel a profound connection to this book already. I believe it is speaking directly to me.

People have turned in to workaholics, proud of their singular identity that is “I am a hard worker”

This leads me to think about the many other ways people would want to be remembered outside being a “hard worker”

Parenthood, fitness, passions, pastimes, hobbies, personal identity

Our work is how we began to see ourselves. We spend most of our time selling ourselves to these job. Our own identity becomes our work. We sell ourselves souls for the increasing pay of a sales job. When do you call it enough? Where do you draw the line of how much time you are spending at this tertiary importance (family, friends, job)