Whether you realize it or not you probably could increase the amount of free time you have and reduce the amount of work you do. If you believe in the 80/20 rule, then you know that 20% of your work actually is what makes a profit, while the other 80% goes toward other activities such as answering emails, making phone calls, deleting spam… By finding ways to lower that 80% you can increase your free time as well as increase your days productivity.
Removing unnecessary productivity wasters…
If you run a blog, you know that spam can be a problem. You probably delete 80 messages a day, like I did. Recently I installed peter’s antispam plugin for wordpress. It basically makes it so a word has to be entered before comments may be made. Most spammers won’t take the time to do this (they use automated comment systems) so I save the time of having to delete spam messages.
Email productivity wasters…
Do you check your email ever hour? What a waste! Check your email twice a day, before work starts, and just before you finish. If anything was life altering or urgent, you’d get a phone call right?
Outsource your life?
Sometimes little things in your life take up more time than you’d need. A new website called AskSunday.com allows anyone to have their own 24/7 personal assistant for as low as $30 per month. Basically people in India will take your requests and fullfill them. Say you send a quick sms, “Large Pizza from Dominos, delivered at 4. They will go ahead and call up Dominoes from India, and have that pizza delivered for you. Amazing or what?
The main key is, to look at your life and figure out anything that you’re wasting time on. The more you can reduce this 80% of things that aren’t profitable, you’ll be able to have even more free time.
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