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5. Cut them out altogether. Yes, that's right, just stop doing them.

6. Take time daily to decide, and re-decide as priorities change, what truly are your big "boulders". And keep these actively in my focus - whenever, and wherever, you can. List them and keep them in front of you. Make a big colorful poster of them. Draw them, so your creative, "everything is possible", visualizing, right brain can work on them.

7. Always choose to do "boulders" [big, valuable tasks, goals, projects] over "sand" [small, trivial, non-valuable tasks, goals, projects].

8. Create and define important, valuable, whole, regular, systematic jobs - with a beginning and ending. And, if someone else can do them, and someone else is available, delegate these jobs permanently and completely to others.

9. If you have to, employ someone new, part-time or full-time, to do it instead of you. Delegation is best for jobs that need to be done regularly, and done 100% well. Almost any "complete" job can be delegated.

10. Focus on, volunteer for, emphasize, choose, what you like, what you're good at, what you find FUN!

11. What you don't find fun, make fun. Lack of fun de- leverages tasks, and time. Fun leverages it. So build in fun, consciously. Create fun. BE fun.

12. Learn, and practicerepparttar skill and art of saying "No!" (nicely) - especially to chronic time wasters.

13. Aim to do far more, far less perfectly.

14. Do no more than 7 things really well, or excellently. "Excellence" is not "perfect", but rather "fit for its purpose".

15. When faced with large daunting tasks or projects, break them down into smaller tasks - and build in rewards for achieving some ofrepparttar 106565 smaller steps.

16. Be more effective: Stop doingrepparttar 106566 wrong things well.

17. And ifrepparttar 106567 right things push your skill frontiers, learn to dorepparttar 106568 right things poorly, first. Then to do them well, over time, second.

18. Train your customers to do more. Give themrepparttar 106569 tools; teach them how to userepparttar 106570 tools.

19. Use technology to reducerepparttar 106571 time you take to do tasks.

Best Regards, Robert Brents, "The 80/20 Guy" http://www.RobertBrents.com For your free four-lesson e-seminar, How To Write, Publish, Market & Promote Profitable How-To Manuals, email mailto:freehowtoeseminar@sendfree.com Copyright 2001 Robert Brents and Blue Gecko Press.


Balancing PLay and wORK: Leveraging Time, Part 2

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6. Take thinking or processing work to a meeting, seminar or conference.

7. Use different color or different style hats to indicate when you're changing roles. A small project team I worked on recently did this so everyone knew what "hat" (role) we were wearing (performing) at any given time duringrepparttar day.

8. Think, plan your day, etc. inrepparttar 106564 shower, or if you take mass transit, onrepparttar 106565 trolley or bus. I know this will sound compulsive to some of you, but I have an acrylic board in my shower & a grease pen available to jot down ideas when they come to me. (Why dorepparttar 106566 best ideas seem to come when it's least convenient to capture them?)

9. Get co-workers to send you audio rather than written reports, and friends to send cassette "letters" so you can listen to them while driving. Many email programs now make it possible to record messages that you can download to digital recorders for replay later.

Best Regards, Robert Brents, "The 80/20 Guy" http://www.RobertBrents.com For your free four-lesson e-seminar, How To Write, Publish, Market & Promote Profitable How-To Manuals, email mailto:freehowtoeseminar@sendfree.com Copyright 2001 Robert Brents and Blue Gecko Press.


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