From the course: Improving the Value of Your Time
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Offload less valuable activities
From the course: Improving the Value of Your Time
Offload less valuable activities
- The sheer number of tasks during your work day can make it difficult to improve your time value, so how can we trim that number down, especially if you work for someone else and you're expected to perform these kinds of activities? First, here's what not to do. Many people when removing tasks from their work day follow what I call the cycle of abdication. Now abdication means trying to abandon tasks by giving them to someone else or even something else. The cycle of abdication goes like this. First, you realize you don't have enough time to get everything done. Second, you hope some new technology or even another person will take care of your work, so you hand it off. Third, after a little time, you recognize your solution isn't working. This causes you to give up on your attempt and return to step one. You don't have enough time to get everything done. Many professionals waste a lot of time and money in this cycle…
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