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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 to consider whether your processes at work and at home reflect your current reality.
If you are doing something now that was useful in the past but isn't any longer, it might be a good moment to update things.
You can save yourself an incredible amount of time.
Today's tip comes from a TED Talk by Salvatore Cali, a partner at the Boston Consulting Group.
Cali's TED Talk focuses on workflows that waste time and how to streamline or eliminate them.
He asserts, one of the best places to find waste is in a company's processes, because they usually reflect your company's past more than its present or future.
These legacies are massive waste generators.
I think we can all think of processes that have outlived their usefulness.
Maybe a daily reporting process made sense in an all-paper world, but it is inefficient or unnecessary when so many things are digital.
Or maybe you've got a procedure that worked when you were all in the same office as your team, but now you are distributed across the country.
A process that worked for your kids 10 years ago may feel limiting because kids grow and change too.
If you are feeling pressed for time and want to be more efficient, see whether there are processes in your life that you can update.
For instance, maybe you have long been a believer in doing a small load of laundry every day.
That may have been helpful when you had four little kids at home, plus you and your spouse.
But doing laundry every day may not be necessary if most of your kids are launched and no longer live at home.
Or maybe your team started having a 15-minute Zoom check-in every morning in April of 2020, when you were all scattered due to the pandemic and you were all adjusting to remote work.
That may no longer be necessary in a hybrid environment or in general.
I tend to think people can do their jobs without daily check-ins.
Or maybe you are accustomed to saving 15 of your income for retirement, but you have actually reached the target dollar amount you need to have.
So you may be able to stop saving so aggressively and have a little room in your budget for travel.
If we want to live in the present and plan for the future, we don't want to waste time on things that only made sense in the past.
So from time to time, review your processes at work and at home to make sure it all makes sense.
If not, it is time to move on and free up that space for something else.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
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