Boost Your Efficiency and Effectiveness—at Work, at Home and in the World
Each day, we have limited amounts of time and energy to do what needs to be done while also trying to cultivate meaningful lives. Is it any wonder so many of us feel stressed?
The good news: It can be easier than you might think to increase your overall effectiveness and efficiency. For advice, we turned to Nick Sonnenberg, CEO of the outsourcing platform Leverage and a foremost expert in achieving efficiency. He’s also the author of the upcoming book Come Up for Air: How Your Team Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.
Adopting the right efficiency mindset
Efficiency strategies are only as good as the attitudes you bring to them. The first step, then, is to approach efficiency efforts with the right mindset. For example:
1. Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them. This is the whole basis for the idea that you need systems in place that make it easy to access information so your brain can stay focused on what you do best—or simply having some fun.
2. Focus on your strengths, not on shoring up weaknesses. Each of us has our own particular abilities—the things we do best. But we tend to spend lots of time tackling our weaknesses. The result: We end up with “stronger weaknesses” that do little to further our success or enjoyment. This idea is why we should focus on eliminating, automating or outsourcing many areas of our life that aren’t part of our highest and best abilities.
3. Think about return on time. To maximize efficiency and effectiveness, consider the return on time of a task and how to best handle it. This can help you start to better see when it makes sense to delegate a task and when it’s better to tackle it yourself.
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