Knowing how to prioritise and delegate is one of the most important skills in productivity.
How do you determine what to prioritise?
- Focus vs Multi-tasking
- Knowing what the possible range of activities you can be doing is important. Often there are other activities or things you can be doing that can 10x your output.
- Does it give leverage?
- Hiring / managing people
- Using money
- Developing technology to automate
- Creating content
- It’s often more important to reply fast to team members and make sure they have everything they need rather and scheduling deep work for later.
- What are the biggest leverage things you can be doing now?
- How much is your time worth?Knowing how much your time is worth is essential. If someone can do it for better and / or for less than your time is worth then it is essential to delegate it.
- Eisenhour MatrixIs it Urgent and/or Important? Knowing the difference is essential so you can avoid spending your time on urgent unimportant things.
- What is the number 1 most important thing you should be working on now?
- Time Audit – how are you spending your time? It is essential to know and then you can see where you can optimise it.
- Optimise for energy rather than time. Sometimes it is better to optimise based on what gives you the most energy and what is most fun. Rather than a gruelling schedule that drains you.
- Themed days
- Batching similar tasks together
- Time boxing
- Having maker vs manager days
