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title: What If I Could Give You 10 Additional Years On Your Life, Would You Be Interested?
description: What if I could give you 10 additional years on your life, would you be interested?  Well who wouldn’t right? Years ago, I heard a leadership lesson from John Maxwell where he said that the average executive spends 10 years of their life looking for stuff because they are not organized.
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# [What If I Could Give You 10 Additional Years On Your Life, Would You Be Interested?](https://www.teleioscn.org/blog/what-if-i-could-give-you-10-additional-years-on-your-life-would-you-be-interested)

 Written by [Chris Comeaux](https://www.teleioscn.org/blog/author/chris-comeaux) | 12/13/18 2:00 PM

**What if I could give you 10 additional years on your life****, would you be interested?**  Well who wouldn’t right? Years ago, I heard a *[leadership lesson from **John Maxwell **](https://www.johnmaxwell.com/)*where he said that the average executive spends 10 years of their life looking for stuff because they are not organized.  Does that hit close to home for you? 

<https://www.teleioscn.org/the-role-of-the-ceo-7-ms>

Do you get that anxious feeling when you know you need to work on a project, but you must find some things to start on it; and, then you procrastinate even more due to the challenge of you having to find additional items to move the project forward.  When I heard [**John Maxwell’s** talk that day](https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrCwLCSNhFc7AIA_6MPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=john+maxwell+leadership&type=mcx_fjnh3nrsiacegikm2ru_18_48_11&hspart=itm&hsimp=yhs-001&param1=1&param2=f%3D4%26ip%3D68.115.133.114%26cat%3Dweb%26xlp_pers_guid%3D%26xlp_sess_guid%3Db7e79891-0ed3-4aae-aaeb-cc02b812bc1e%26uref%3D%26abid%3D%26xt_abg%3D%26b%3DChrome%26cc%3DUS%26pa%3Dmcyahoo%26cd%3D2XzuyEtN2Y1L1QzuyEyE0ByD0BtAyC0AtG0A0B0ByEtGyD0EtD0CtG0A0FyCtDtGtByB0FyC0Bzz0B0AtCtBtBzztN1L1G1B1V1N2Y1L1Qzu2S0DyByEtA0CtAtB0AtGzzzy0CyDtGyEyDyCyEtGzzyCyDzztGtDtCtCyDtB0C0DyD0BtDzyyE2QtN1Q2Zzu0StByDtBtCtN1L2XzutAtFyDtFzyzytFtCtN1L1CzutN1T1IzuyEtN1B2Z1V1T1S1Nzu%26cr%3D1211435687%26a%3Dmcx_fjnh3nrsiacegikm2ru_18_48_11%26rb%3Dchrome%26xt_ver%3D10.1.3.59&ei=UTF-8&fr=yhs-itm-001#id=3&vid=cf2c907393074875bc599ed64d2664a8&action=view), I remember thinking to myself, “Man I could use that time in a much better way,” and I endeavored to get even better at **[my organization system](https://www.teleioscn.org/hospice-shared-services)** and to read and research what a best practice system would look like.

So, after many years of reading and researching I have concluded you can certainly teach people tools and some might adapt those tools and others will say, “those tools don’t work for me.”  I firmly believe that you must build and teach an ***[organization system](https://www.teleioscn.org/teleios-collaborative-networks-leadership-immersion-course)*** based on principles or fundamentals so that people can research and select their own tools to comply with the fundamental because every great system is based on certain fundamentals.

 

<https://www.teleioscn.org/teleios-collaborative-networks-leadership-immersion-course> 

 

 

So, what are the fundamentals of an **[effective organization system](https://www.teleioscn.org/blog/leadership-systems-are-essential)**? Over the years I have identified six that can prevent you from spending ten years of your life looking for things.   They are as follows:  

[- A Calendar System](https://products.office.com/en-us/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook?rtc=1)

[- A Task List System](https://products.office.com/en-us/onenote/digital-note-taking-app)

[- An Intake System](https://products.office.com/en-us/onenote/digital-note-taking-app)

[- A Reference System](https://products.office.com/en-us/onenote/digital-note-taking-app)

[- Contacts](https://products.office.com/en-us/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook?rtc=1)

[- A Daily/Weekly Review](https://products.office.com/en-us/onenote/digital-note-taking-app)

(I do have a standing bet of $100 which I will gladly pay if you can come up with another fundamental(s).)

While each of these might seem simple at first glance there is some learning in each area that I will review in the next several blogs.

**Chris Comeaux,***President / CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network

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***An organizational model that allows [not-for-profit hospices](https://www.teleioscn.org/hospice-palliative-care) (Members) to leverage best practices, achieve economies of scale and collaborate in ways that better prepare each agency to participate in emerging [alternative payment models](https://www.teleioscn.org/hospice-shared-services) and advance their charitable missions.***

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