An Outsource List
- Look at everything on your to-do list and ask yourself, ‘Am I the only person who can do this?’
- Anything that can be given to someone else should be put on an outsource list.
- While outsourcing takes the extra time upfront to train someone else on the task, it saves you time later, which can be used to focus on the things you do have to do.
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