Work Less, Do More

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Work Less, Do More

Growing up, I remember rushing out the door with my family. We were usually waiting on my mom or one of my three sisters to finish getting ready. Usually my mom.

It didn’t matter how early they started getting ready, they would push the time right up to the last minute. If they had 30 minutes, they made it work. If they had 2 hours, they took every last minute.

We call this Parkinson’s Law. “Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.”

You are likely to use up all the time you have to complete a task. Even if the task could have been completed sooner. The key is to not tether yourself to the thought that something takes a lot of time.

So this is the big question I want you to ask yourself:

Are you giving yourself too much time? What would it look like if you hypothetically cut that time in half?

The problem is that most people don’t give themselves any kind of deadline. They have something they want to accomplish but have the mentality of “I’ll get around to it when I get around to it.”

So here’s what we’re going to do. The framework is quite simple:

1. Give yourself a deadline

That’s it.

What you’ll find is that once you give yourself a deadline, your productivity shoots through the roof. That’s because you start following the Pareto Principle:

"80% of effects come from 20% of causes."

All of a sudden you don’t have time anymore to work on tasks that don’t move the needle. You start focusing your effort where it’s most important and where it has the greatest impact.

I’m confident if you start setting deadlines in your personal and business life, you’ll see a huge increase in your productivity and efficiency.

That’s all for today.

See you next week!

Note:
If you are interested in reading about businesses implementing Parkinson’s Law by shifting to a 4 day work week, you can check that out here.

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