Freeing Up Time
People often ask, how can I best free up and use my time? When you’re working on your tasks, there are really only four ways to deal with them.
- Do – These are actions that you need to take for work to be done. It’s important, it gives you traction and gets you towards where you want to go.
- Delegate – This is when doing the work yourself is not the best use of your time. You need to find the right person/people to delegate the work to.
- Defer – These are tasks that are important and need to be done, but aren’t as urgent. You can deal with them later on or at a more appropriate time.
- Dump – Those tasks that don’t add value or just do not need to be done.
These are the four actions you can take when dealing with tasks.
Do, Delegate, Defer or Dump.
Plan your task
To work out what to do with your existing task do the following:
Draw five columns a piece of paper and label them as:
- Task
- Do
- Delegate
- Defer
- Dump
Make a list of ALL your tasks, no matter how big or small. Go down the list and allocate each one in the relevant column. Ask yourself, “looking at this task, what is the best way to handle it?”.
Once you’ve done this create an action plan of what needs to be done immediately, what needs to be delegated and to whom, what can be deferred and until when and what you’ll dump.
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