Four Methods of Completion
There are only 4 ways to complete a task:
- Completion: doing the task yourself -- All tasks on your to-do-list" do not necessarily fall in this category. Only the tasks which you can do well or have to do fall in this category.
- Deletion: eliminating the task -- Assessing the task to confirm whether it is really important enough, and deleting if it is not, is an underrated strategy.
- Delegation: assigning the task to someone else -- Hire people who can complete the task at least 80% as well as you can and delegate.
- Deferment: putting of until later -- noncritical tasks can be done later.
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