M
uch of time management seeks to help us do things
faster and do more than one thing at once, so we can fit
more doing into the same limited amount of time.
But no time management plan can work without attention to
the tasks themselves.
Here’s where the famous admonition to “work smarter, not
harder” comes into play.
Spend just a little time today questioning some of the tasks you do
every day, and you can save tons of time every day from now on.
How to Eliminate Unnecessary Steps
“I’m so busy doing the dance,” a worker laments, “I haven’t got
time to learn the steps.”
Let’s free up some time by eliminating some of those steps, the
ones that aren’t getting you anywhere.
Get rid of the paperwork Morgue
For those of you who work in government agencies, or other
large bureaucracies, you may be acquainted with the emphasis on
paperwork and procedures. Certainly, procedures can be worth-
while; they permit many things to happen that we want to happen
and prevent some of those that shouldn’t. Paperwork, too, is use-
ful when backup is required. But we’re talking here about large
amounts of unnecessary paperwork and pointless procedures.