- If it takes 2 minutes, just do it!
- If someone can help, delegate it.
- If none of the above, put it on the calendar.
Every night I go home with a to-do list that is never complete. I dream big and know that my list will always out do me when push comes shove. Can you relate? The to-do’s will keep coming and we will never truly finish having to-do’s, but how would it feel to have the list prioritized so you spend more time getting things done rather than feeling at loss or defeated? Getting Things Done, this book has been a huge help in prioritizing my to-do list and has helped me develop a mindset of priority in a role that requires endless decisions to be made and a process for my many tasks to be completed.This chart is referenced in the book…put all of your to-do’s through this model and see what happens.
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I’m real bad at this. Love the graphic. Did you come up with that? Cause that’s brillant. I’m getting better at delegating but it is something I still need to be working on.
Hey Justin! Thanks for stopping by, the graphic comes from the book I mentioned – Getting Things Done. I’m sure there are some good blogs out there on delegating, and some bad ones too. In StuMin I feel like “empowering someone to own it” is probably a better term than delegating. Thoughts?
Oh I’m with you on that one. For me, I have a ton of moving parts when it comes to our weekend services, I can do them all if I wanted too. Which for a while I tried to do. But I did everything, but I only did it “good”. Empowering a volunteer or even a student to “own” it, they do it way better than I could and I can do less things but do them GREAT. By doing that, they feel like they own part of the ministry and are empowered to lead. I’m trying to do this more and more for sure.