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3 Questions To Help You Optimize And Excel In What You Do
Once you have explored and have performed a certain task a couple of times, you are ready to optimize.
In this case, you want to eliminate unnecessary actions and bottlenecks. Strip down the activity as much as possible until you get the same/better result with less moves.
The following questions asked regularly will give you the answers and action steps necessary for your optimization:
1. Is this task and outcome important at all?
“There’s nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” //Peter Drucker
If it is not a clear yes on this question, eliminate the activity altogether. Hyperproductivity comes down to focusing on what matters most and eliminating the rest. You will find that almost everything you came up with in exploration mode will be abandoned except for a tiny percentage.
2. How can I get rid of as many steps as possible?
Rather than simplifying each step of the process, you should remove them. In other words, the previous question is once again applied within the activity itself, to further strip down everything but the essential nature.
