Increasing Your Productivity by Letting Go

One lesson I relearned because of upgrading this website was that I don’t have to do it all. I could, but it would be at the expense of sacrificing something else. Rather than trying to control everything, I decided to outsource some tasks. Although difficult at first, the payoffs were immediate. To start, I became more productive. And no, you don’t need fancy project management systems, large budget or crash course in Six Sigma. For some stupid reason, I figured because it was my web site, I had to do all the work. It wasn’t right to let anyone else touch it. I think part of this is because something tells us no one can do the job the as well. Of course, that theory is always true if you never give someone else the opportunity. Identifying Tasks to Offload After listing the tasks, I could decide which ones required my time.... [read full story]                    

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