Identifying the Top 3 Time Bandits : Reclaim Your Productivity
<p>In “The 4 Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss, the author categorizes 3 principal offenders, that prevents our proudctivity:</p>
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<li><strong><em>Time Wasters</em></strong> — Things can be ignored with little or no consequences (eg. meetings, web surfing, checking unimportant news)</li>
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<p>> <em>What to do?</em> <strong>Remove them </strong>all from your life. Limit the time of uncessary meeting, have a tool that helps you stop spending too much time on surfing on internet. Unsubscribe all garbage news and emails.</p>
<p>2. <strong><em>Time Consumers</em></strong> — Necessary repetitive tasks or requests that need to be completed; but not as high-prority. (eg. product assistant, customer support, sales or status reporting, cleaning, cooking; majority of chores, etc)</p>
<p>> <em>What to do? </em><strong>Batch processing and automiation</strong>. If it’s repeditive, tedius, let’s see if we can do it as a bulk, batch processing. Focus on making things automated as possible so that you don’t have to waste too much time on it. Cleaning? Buy an robot cleaning machine, cooking? see if you can outsource that.</p>
<p>3. <strong><em>Empowerment Failues</em> </strong>— Things that needs someone’s approval to make something small happens (eg. missing package, follow-up with cash expenditures)</p>
<p>> What to do? Define if a task need your intervention or action or not. is it income generating or not, if so, can it be outsourced? If the answer is yes, then let’s outsource. Follow the flowchart from the 4HWW book.</p>
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