Author: Leon Ho / Source: Lifehack
Today is your lucky day, as I’m going to reveal to you how I helped my team get more things done in less time through the power of correct prioritization.
A few minutes spent reading this article could literally save you thousands of hours over the long term. So, let’s get started.
Everyone of my team members has a bucketload of tasks that they need to deal with every working day. On top of that, most of their tasks are related to creativity as we’re a content publisher.
Despite having loads of tasks to handle, our team is consistently able to stay creative and work towards our goals.
How do we manage that? Through the Scales Method – a productivity method I created several years ago.
How to prioritize and work 10X faster with the Scales Method
One of our new editors came to me the other day and told me how she was struggling to keep up with the many tasks she needed to handle and the deadlines she constantly needed to stick to.
At the end of each day, she felt like she had done a lot of things but often failed to come up with creative ideas and to get articles successfully published. From what she told me, it was obvious that she felt overwhelmed and was growing increasingly frustrated about failing to achieve her targets despite putting in extra hours most days.
After she listened to my advice – and I introduced her to the Scales Method – she immediately experienced a dramatic rise in productivity, which looked like this:
- She could produce three times more creative ideas for blog articles
- She could publish all her articles on time
- And she could finish all her work on time every day (no more overtime!)
Curious to find out how she did it?
Read on for the step-by-step guide:1. Set aside 10 minutes for planning
When it comes to tackling productivity issues, it makes sense to plan before taking action. However, don’t become so involved in planning that you become trapped in it and never move beyond first base.
My recommendation is to give yourself a specific time period for planning – but keep it short. Ideally, 10 or 15 minutes. This should be adequate to think about your plan.
Use this time to:
- Look at the big picture.
- Think about the current goal and target that you need/want to achieve.
- Lay out all the tasks you need to do.
2. Align your tasks with your goal
This is the core component that makes the Scales Method effective.
It works like this:
Take a look at all the tasks you’re doing, and review the importance of each of them. Specifically, measure a task’s importance by its cost and benefit.
By cost, I am referring to the effort needed per task (including time, money and other resources). The benefit is how closely the task can contribute to your goal.
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