Productivity VIP – Mini Story - Effortless English

Productivity VIP – Point of ViewHello this A.J. Welcome to the point-of-view lessons for this month’s VIP. Let’s getstarted.So same story, but different times, different versions. The first, as usual, will behappening now, like we’re going along with Ray.* * * * *So there is a guy named Ray Johnson and he works at IBM. Now, he has never hadany problems before at his job. He has worked at IBM a long time and he has never hadany problems, but one day his boss calls him into the office and he says “Ray, you’reproductivity sucks. You’re spinning your wheels every day. Appearing busy, but doingnothing. You need to shape up or ship out.”Well, Ray feels bad. He feels bad because he realizes that his boss is right. He realizesthat he has been spinning his wheels every day for quite a long time. So he decides tochange. First, he decides to complete all of his tasks in just 24 hours. He does all of histasks with high quality lightening fast. He doesn’t do them a little bit fast he does themlightening fast; super fast, extremely fast.He doesn’t stop there. Next, he decides to answer his emails only Tuesdays andFridays and to do them quickly. So each Tuesday and Friday he burns through his inboxsuper fast. He burns through all of his emails very quickly. He does his emails veryquickly, but that’s not all.Finally, he realizes that he needs to do even more and he decides to be proactive atwork; to be very proactive, not reactive, not passive, not waiting for his boss. No, hedecides to be proactive. He actually looks for and identifies potential problems at workand he solves them before they get big.Now, of course, his boss loves all of these changes and after six months his boss says“Ray, you’re doing a great job. You’re now on my A-Team. You’re an A-Player now. Youare super productive and I’m giving you a raise. I’m giving you an increase in yoursalary. I’m giving you more money.”And, of course, Ray is very happy and his boss is very happy too.* * * * *And that’s the end of our first version of the story. Next version of the story beginswith…www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com