How do we spend our time...

“Time,” as Peter Drucker said, “is our scarcest and most precious resource. You can obtain greater quantities of every other resource except time.”

PRIORITIES

Purpose! It is not just about getting things done, but about getting the right things done.

For there is nothing worse than performing with excellence those things that need not be done at all.

Just as critical is the need to eliminate wasting the time of those who we work with.

For only by purposeful abandonment can we focus on our priorities and managing the time we spend on them.

To understand how we spend our time we must habitually take a weekly snapshot. This gives us reality check and a foundation to improve.

The next step is to prioritise. What are the right things to do and in what order - not just for our organisation, but in our own personal lives?

I have found some success in splitting these into two: actions and engagements.

ACTIONS

Performance! What should we work on? This depends less on our desires and more on what is righ…