The clock might quantify that someone has been at work, but it does not necessarily measure results – and to Oranges, results are all that counts. Just because someone’s been at work seven hours, the world assumes that must have resulted in a certain amount of productivity. So, ten hours at work should make someone more productive. Not true, according to Oranges.
It would just make them more tired and not more productive. They believe in working hard and playing hard – and playing soon! That’s always the prize and it can’t come soon enough…
They are more than willing (and able) to get ten hours worth of clock-time done, but it won’t take ten hours! Whether it takes ten hours or a whole lot less time for the same quantity and quality is determined by whether they get to leave (play) when the work is done, not when the clock has run out.
In almost a whisper, an Orange commercial realtor shared at a seminar that she really didn’t work very hard to be successful. When I asked her what she meant by that, she explained that she only worked about 14 hours a day. But added that most of that time didn’t really count because it was networking, showing clients around, or negotiating deals.
In her Orange world, the time spent on those things didn’t count as work because it was what she really loved and thrived on. Now if you were to ask her about the time she spent on paperwork and accounting stuff, that’s a different story…