DGrant Gibson

Part 1-
Signal-to-noise ratio is defined as the power ratio between a signal (meaningful information) and the background noise (unwanted signal)…

How does this affect you and I? A great deal it turns out! If you are like me, wanting to put your attention to only important stuff only to find distractions occurring frequently that interupt the flow of concentration, then you are getting more noise than signal in your daily activities. In physics, power is the rate at which work is performed or energy is converted. In business, power is the rate at which work is performed or energy converts into momentum. Smart entrepreneurs/business people can do less work and achieve more in a given time frame. They know what to focus on, the right way to perform the task, and know results will follow. There is a term called focus splitters. A focus splitter is anything that can lead you away from the one important task at hand. You only need one apparent distraction to reduce the signal thereby increasing noise. Another example might be ‘paper pushing’, a term we knew from real estate training. It meant you were at your desk looking busy but with no ensuing financial results at month end. It is simple truth to observe the statistics that 80%+ people do not achieve success with what they choose to do. And that 80%+ of the results come from 20% activities. Lets interface this with the signal to noise ratio. If you were to overlay these one on top of the other, you would see a clear pattern and relationship. High single-minded focus, strong signal. Highly successful single-minded focused people do not allow anything to interupt their contentration. What are some of the noise factors that lower the signal? Web surfing, daily hours of TV, online social sites, driving around for no reason, shopping frivolously, things that can steal hours of your day, never to put value in with poor results by the end of your week. Do a simple task for a one week period to see how your personal signal to noise ratio stands up. In a journal, log everything you do for one complete week. Let me know your results.
Lets not fool ourselves with static energy, the negative energy that steals your power, the mediocracy/apathetic energy of appearances that never achieve small goals, let alone lofty goals, achievements.
This will be an ongoing series. Stay tuned for much more on this subject…
Until the next WebLog, GG