High and low value uses of time
High-value and low-value uses of time according to Richard Koch.
High-value
- Things that advance your overall purpose in life
- Things you have always wanted to do
- Things already in the 20/80 relationship of time to results
- Innovative ways of doing things
- Things other people tell you can’t be done
- Things other people have done successfully in a different arena
- Things that use your own creativity
- Things that you can get other people to do for you with little effort on your part
- Anything with high-quality collaborators who have already transcended the 80/20 rule
- Things that for which it is now or never
Low-value
- Things that other people want you to do
- Things that have always been done this way
- Things you are not unusually good at doing
- Things you don’t enjoy doing
- Things that are always interrupted
- Things few other people are interested in
- Things that have already taken twice as long as originally expected
- Anything with unreliable or low-quality collaborators
- Things that have a predictable cycle
- Answering the telephone
One Comment
March 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
This is perfect and I shall print it out and hang it above my computer. I will look at it each day and live by it accordingly. Thank you. (Especially the part about answering the telephone. Yuck.)
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