Day 14: Be productive, right now
Productivity Action Day 14. It’s elimination time.
Your Mission Possible for Productivity Action Day 14, if you so choose to accept it is to:
Eliminate Time Wasters
One of the things you must do if you want to be productive is to eliminate your time wasters.
Time wasters are things you are doing that 1) are not RGAs and 2) you do not need to do.
True, if it needs to be done, then it is right for someone else to do. And it is not for you to do.
Look over your list. By now, you should know (or are getting closer to seeing) your RGAs, your value-added activities and those that only you can do.
Everything else is a time waster.
How to eliminate time wasters
Time wasters show up in interesting places. Things such as feeling like you have to enter every single receipt into a separate file folder. Feeling as if you have to have meetings with everyone all the time. Excessive traveling when a phone call or Zoom meeting would do.
I’m going to give you two (yes, only two) ways to eliminate time wasters.
- Stop doing them and delete them from your list
- Give them to someone else to do (as in delegate)
Don’t forget, you have to know your time wasters first in order to eliminate them so if you have yet to do that, go back, especially to Productive Action Day 5 and list out your Revenue Generating Activities and your Non-Revenue Generating Activities.
That will give you a good starting point.
Yesterday we talked about time containers, there is no reason for you to put time wasters into those precious time containers that you have.
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Additional References for you
Article: Time Wasters that Will Kill Your Productivity
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