5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
Everything you know about time-management is wrong.
In this challenging and counter-intuitive video, Self-Discipline Strategist Rory Vaden, shows you why you can’t solve today’s time-management challenges with yesterday’s time-management strategies. He explains why procrastinating on purpose is the key to being able to multiply your time.
Anyone seeking to up their game, do meaningful work, and ditch the stress of looming deadlines and too many tasks on the front burner will embrace this smart, insightful guide.
How To Multiply Your Time
Rory Vaden
Key Takeaways
Everything you’ve ever heard about time management is all logical: tips, tricks, calendars, apps. Time management is no longer logical, it is emotional. Feelings of guilt, worry, frustration dictate how we spend our time.
There is no such thing as time management, you can’t manage time, time continues on whether we like it or not, there is only self-management. We can not solve today’s time management problems with yesterday’s time management thinking.
- One dimensional thinking Solution: Efficiency the idea was to develop tools, tips, technology, and tricks to help us get our TO-DO list done FASTER.
- Two Dimensional Thinking Solution: Prioritizing Important/urgent tasks and creating a list based off what needs to be done now or later. It’s borrowing time from one activity to the other. All prioritizing does is take item #7 on to do list and bumps it up to #1. It’s valuable but it still doesn’t create more time or accomplish other items on to do list. In this model two strategies: to do things faster or to do more things.
- Three Dimensional Thinking: Multipliers Most people make decisions off urgency and importance, multipliers are making a third calculation which is significant. How long is it going to matter? What’s the most important thing I can do TODAY/RIGHT NOW that will make the future better?
Multiply Your Time You multiply your time by giving yourself the EMOTIONAL PERMISSION to spend time on things TODAY, that will give you more time TOMORROW. The focus funnel is is our attempt to codify and articulate the unconscious thought process that Multipliers go through when they are evaluating which tasks to spend time on.
Eliminate Can I eliminate this? Is it worth doing? Multipliers realize it’s much more of what you don’t do than what you do, do. Perfection is achieved when nothing can be added, but also nothing can be taken away.
Automate Can I automate the task? Anything that I create a process for today, saves me time tomorrow. (think online bill pay) ROTI return on time investment. 2 hours spent automating bills online saves you 30 minutes/month paying bills which after 4 months you’ll be saving time. Automation to your time is exactly what compounding interest is to money. Automation takes time and makes it into more time.
Delegate Can it be delegated? Can I teach someone else to do this? You can delegate anything. They just can’t do it as well as I can. If you think longer term, they’ll be able to master the task just like you. Significant changes everything.
- If the task can’t be automated, delegated or eliminated the task drops out the funnel to you.
- Can it be done now, or can it be done later?
- If it needs to be done now. Concentrate.
- Can it be done later? Procrastinate on purpose. Pop that activity back into the top of the funnel and let it run it’s course.
- You may find a way to automate, eliminate or delegate and if it becomes significant you will do it. Patience to put off the insignificant things like checking email 24/7.
