Productive U Podcast

I’ll admit it. I’ve done some pretty time wasting things in the past. Most of these came from surrendering to the siren songs of thoroughness and efficiency. Doing things completely and quickly is a very desirable thing, unless it keeps us from seeing a way to do them more effectively. That was my experience with filing bills after paying them.

At one time, I would file bills by payee immediately after I paid them. This was efficient, but the time was not well spent since I almost never went back looking for the paid bills and would eventually have to handle them again when I ran out of storage space. I took myself to task for this when I realized that I could save a lot of time by putting all the paid bills for a time period in a box labeled with a beginning and ending date. Filing time dropped to almost zero, finding them again if I ever needed to was still pretty easy, and disposing of them when the time came was much quicker and easier. Soon my receipts were also going in the box.

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Many people associate the words “cold” and “efficiency,” but they haven’t met the Friendly Taskmaster. He reminds many of our staff of the best sports coaches they have had because of his unflagging enthusiasm for helping us perform better. Our staff thought his coaching would be helpful to you too and he was very happy to help. He offers productivity tips that won’t be like the treadmill that has ended up as a clothing rack. (more…)