5 Ways to Control Your Time

with Chris Croft

Reducing the Time Spent in Box 2: The Only Five Choices

Urgent but unimportant work

Tasks being done
coming in from others

Get more out

Saying no
You
• More efficient systems
• Doing the job less well

Negotiate
• Yes, but later
• Place on list/queue Delegate
• Yes, but only half an hour • Routine jobs
Say yes and then not do it? • Routinize as much as
• Just part of job Not recommended because...
possible
• They do some of it,
• Boss • Parts of jobs
• Need resources or
• Customer • Train others
help from them
• Organization • If they can do it 80% as
• Money
• Yourself! well as you then give it
• Quality of job (for to them
example, level of detail)

These five options apply to

• Meetings
• Interruptions
• Travel
• All other time wasters

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