At some point in your life, how many of you have read a self-improvement or ‘self-help’ book? Or how many of you have made a New Year’s resolution?
Before we get to today’s blog post on how to prioritize things in your life, I want to tell you a little story. It’s a story about the mayonnaise jar and the cup of coffee and it goes like this:
I was having a conversation with my sister the other day and as typically happens when two type-A personalities chat, our conversation quickly went to self-improvement.
Do you have a hard time saying NO to others? I can tell you one person who does not have a problem saying no to others, and that is my mentor Howie. And he has quite an ingenious and graceful strategy he uses to say no without saying no.
Back in 2013, an article appeared in the Harvard Business Review called “Make Time for the Work That Matters”. That article, which we will discuss today, introduces a process where you sort low-value tasks into 3 categories which helps free up a significant amount of time in your workday.