Wasting time is a headache and a headache is a waste of time. Get rid of both to reach your BIG GOALS in short order.

At 20 years old, not wanting to pay for a mechanic, you bought a book on how to replace your engine. Like any man, you skipped the boring part where it says, “Read This First” and went straight to the How-To section.

Everything’s going well until you come across a task to remove the Offenhaus Defosticator (that, as my mom would say, is a doohicky thingy in an engine). Two hours turns into three. From trying to torque the Offenhaus Defosticator off, your head throbs in frustration. Expressing yourself as a sailor would on a regular afternoon of deck-swabbing you realize you need help. You call a friend who’s a hobby mechanic. You meekly admit to him you can’t get a simple Offenhaus Defosticator dislodged from its fitting.

Your buddy comes over with a tool. It’s made precisely for removing the source of your headache. In seven seconds he twists it off. SEVEN SECONDS! Seven seconds vs three hours. The right tool vs the wrong tool. Or should we describe it as, “The tool holding the wrong tool - taking three hours - and failing.”

What a valuable lesson at twenty years old. Use the right tool and save yourself the headache of wasted time.

One of the cool parts about this job of speaking to a variety of companies is you learn about their services or products. One such company is Essilor – a $4.2 Billion company that helps the world see better with their amazing lens technology.

In the process of due diligence you learn about Essilor’s computer lenses . With their progressive lens technology, you are curious because you consistently get headaches from all the screen time you spend writing and researching. You experience tired eyes, blurred vision, headaches, neck and shoulder pain.  (Note, these lenses are intended to be prescribed as a second pair to compliment a person’s primary pair of progressive lenses.)

There’s something called Visual Fatigue Syndrome that impacts people of all ages with different visual needs.  It affects people who have 20/20 vision and even those who wear glasses, contacts or have undergone refractive eye surgery.

The benefits of Essilor’s Anti-Fatigue™ lenses include:

• Effective clear vision at distance when tipping the head slightly down.  This results in functional and efficient distance viewing.
• Large intermediate area creates a more relaxed, comfortable visual experience.
• Ordered in the same manner as any progressive lens.

As I write this eBrief to you, I'm wearing computer lenses Essilor provided. No more headaches, improved efficiency with screen time and no shoulder pain. (No, they didn’t pay me to say that. But I am impressed by their technology.)

AMAZING what happens when you have the right tool for the right job.

Goodbye headache. Hello next company who hires me so I get to research their products. Like... Victoria Secret maybe?

Until next week, it’s full speed ahead,

Vince

PS "Be a seeker." The first line out of Invinceable Principles - Essential Tools for Life Mastery. Order your personally signed copy today.

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