From the course: Life Mastery: Achieving Happiness and Success
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Learning to delegate
From the course: Life Mastery: Achieving Happiness and Success
Learning to delegate
- Now, my third option for getting more done by spending less time on un-important things is to delegate. For managers at work, this is the biggest option by far. It's huge. And if you've got 10 people who work for you and you give each person just one more hour a week of your work to do, that's gonna save you 10 hours a week. That's 10 weeks a year! That's huge. So for managers, delegating is massively important. For normal people at work, it's still do-able. It might be you can sometimes delegate things sideways or up-wards or get a sub-contractor in or whatever. So I think it is possible for everyone. And I also think it's possible to do outside work. You can pay people to do things. If you start thinking about the value of your time, if you're feeling a bit frazzled, an option is definitely to pay people to do stuff. For example, I've got a hedge in between my front garden and the road. Great big crazy hedge. And, really, I should be cutting that but I keep putting it off because…
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