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Avoiding less valuable activities

Avoiding less valuable activities

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Avoiding less valuable activities

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- You may have heard me speak about the importance of focusing on your most valuable activities, the things that are worth the most per hour. But what about your least valuable activities, your LVAs? These are the things that you really shouldn't be spending your time doing but you just simply do because they're easy. Examples of this might be running errands to the store or spending too much time doing janitorial work. Think of the relationship between LVAs and MVAs like a glass of water. The more time you spend in your most valuable activities, the less time you have for your least valuable ones. Here are a few tips to start crowding out those less valuable activities. Number one is just to ask yourself the question, what is the value of this activity? Get in the habit of as you go throughout your day, just pausing for a moment saying, "What's the value of this?" You may even start to track this maybe for a week or two…

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