Our days comprise many activities, functions, and interactions. Some are important, many are urgent. A few require us to be creative and original, while others call on us to guide, support, and manage.
Yet if you look at your day and where you spend your time in some detail, you will realize the time you spend on various time-wasting activities to do your work.
It took time to schedule a meeting between diverse groups of people or obtain feedback on a document. The time it took to understand the issue with the HVAC system or that your laptop is operating in a suboptimal manner requires repair. In all these situations, we lose time.
How often don’t you say ‘it is simple enough, I may as well do it myself? The day escapes you, and you spend the evening catching up. We think we are saving costs by doing it, not delegating a function to others with capacity who can do the task, or possibly even purchasing a tool or application to fill the need.
It serves us well to understand what we are strong at and what role we should be performing. It is critical to understand what you should not be doing and where others can best help. There is an associated cost, and are we operating in the black.
Seek to minimize the needless work that does not work, and we find greater satisfaction in what we do.
