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Using our time on high leverage activities
We have 168 hours per week. If we remove the weekends, the time we sleep, eat, shower, and other basic needs, we have a maximum of 100 hours per week to play with.
We have so little time, yet we waste a lot of energy on low leverage tasks that leave us tired and unfulfilled. We should know how to focus our time and energy on high leverage activities.
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"Moving the needle"
"Moving the needle" is used by organisations to describe work with a noticeable impact. However, it can be exhaustive and counterproductive for an individual person to follow such a strategy.
A person should, instead of moving the needle, operate the most efficient levers. Moving the needle may imply hard work, whereas using a lever means using your input to amplify your output.
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High-leverage activities are energy multipliers
Everyone's levers will be different. But when used, they can turn a relatively small amount of time and energy into significant results.
Examples of high-leverage activities:
- Automating part of your work
- Creating and publishing original content
- Joining a public speaking club
- Taking a writing workshop
- Mastering a critical tool
- Building metacognitive processes
- Learning a new language (such as coding)
- Looking for a great coach or mentor
- Shortening unnecessary long meetings
- Investing in personal and professional relationships.
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Clarifying your highest leverage activities
- Document your daily activities. For a few days, track how you spend your workdays.
- Highlight the tasks you are best suited for. Or put differently, focus on the tasks only you can do.
- Choose your levers. Select 2 - 3 high-leverage activities and ensure to commit to these levers. Delegate tasks you are not best suited for, and automate repetitive activities.
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. " ~ Abraham Lincoln
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