Efficiency Expert
Keeping Things Short

I consider myself a self-taught efficiency expert. One of my favorite efficiency ideas is to keep things short.

Here is a list of the things that I think are better when they are short:

1. The checkout line at the store.

2. The wait at the restaurant.

3. The church service. Nine times out of ten, when you overhear someone they will be commenting on the length of the service. Most people can stand about an hour service, any more than that is too long.

4. A wedding ceremony. The best wedding I ever attended was 10 minutes long. The worst was two hours.

5. Commercials. You're enjoying the game or a good show and the commercials always screw up your enjoyment.

6. Your kid's events. All the sporting events, practices, musicals, plays are nice as long as they are kept short.

7. Any ball game.

8. The amount of research you need to do for a project. Is there anything more demoralizing than having to read an enormous, bulky report? Wouldn't you rather just need to read a few pages? Finding ways to get your work done faster will really help your career as well as have you become known as an efficiency expert.

9. The amount of work you need to do for a project.

10. Songs. There are only a few good long songs, why? Because people prefer short songs.

11. Books. Most good books are short and to the point. Long books are ok but aren't read that much.

12. Time with people you don't really want to spend time with.

13. Time at a job you're only working at for the money. This means most jobs. People who work a lot are usually just doing it for the money.

14. Exercise. Exercise is great for you but most people are always looking for ways to minimize the time spent.

I mean, after looking at that list can you honestly say that any of those items are better when they are longer?

The most organized things take the shortest amount of time.

When I am searching the web for information I am usually looking for something or some article that I can print out on paper and it fits on 1 to 5 pages. Any longer than that I forget about printing it out.

I like to have these short articles to fold up and put in my pocket to read when I have a few minutes like on the toilet.

I don't want a big, bulky stack of paper in my pocket. I want something small and easy to carry and easy to read.

I want all aspects of my life to be easier. I want to become even more of an efficiency expert.

Some people think that the longer something is the better it is. Not me. I am always looking for a way to condense.

I keep my letters to one page. I keep my reports for work as brief as possible. I limit the number of pages of my plans in my engineering job.

It is a struggle when you are working with others. They will want the report to be longer and the plans to have more sheets.

You will have to stick to your guns and get your way as the efficiency expert.

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