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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that efficiency isn't everything.
Even if there is a task that could be done cheaply by someone else, or that theoretically could take less time, if you enjoy it, feel free to keep doing it, at least some of the time.
The end point of efficiency is freeing up time for tasks you enjoy.
If you are already at that enjoyment step, you are winning at life.
So I have been reading various books lately on how entrepreneurs can free up time.
Many entrepreneurs work very long hours because they are tackling everything in their businesses.
That can be a problem if people want to eat and sleep and see their families and readers and listeners.
If someone has taken the time to read my work or listen to my work and has written me their thoughts about it, I want to acknowledge that.
I want to share my follow -up ideas and hear what the person thinks about those as well.
So I read all the messages I get from readers and listeners, and I respond to about 90 % of them.
Sometimes this can be time -consuming.
I recently ran a time -tracking challenge where several thousand people kept track of their time for a week.
Many of those folks then sent me their time logs afterwards with thoughts on their schedules and their lives.
Studying these time logs and responding to people's questions and discoveries took at least an hour a day for several weeks.
It was pointed out to me somewhere in here that I could have created some automatic responses or response templates or had somebody helped me go through all this, which is totally true.
But I love learning about time.
I love seeing how people spend their time.
I like digging through the data, so I really understand the choices that people make.
So even if this did take a lot of time, I was glad to do it.
Other people might make different choices, but reading and responding to my own messages works for me.
Perhaps you, likewise, have certain work tasks that you enjoy, even if they are not necessarily the core of your job.
Maybe you are mostly in management, but you enjoy using your technical skills from time to time.
Maybe you are mostly acquiring new book projects, but you still like editing a few on occasion.
You are mostly designing menus or training restaurant managers, but you enjoy hopping in during the dinner rush to help out.
Or maybe there are tasks you do that you are well aware could be done quicker.
I can crank out a blog post or newsletter quickly when I need to, but sometimes I enjoy carving out extra time and coming back to the work a few more times to tweak a phrase or add a new angle.
Does anyone notice or care?
Quite possibly not.
But I enjoy it, so I do it.
There is no need to go overboard on these things.
We probably shouldn't spend all our time on lower value tasks when we are responsible for the higher value ones that pay the bills.
But we don't need to offload them completely either, or do everything at the absolute swiftest speed.
Efficiency isn't everything.
It is a lot, but it isn't everything.
Best to keep it in perspective.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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