Systematise Low
Pay-off Activities
Your priority should be
to concentrate in doing high pay-off activities. For example, for a
writer, writing a piece of article is a high pay-off activity. For a
lawyer, it is preparing for the case in hand. For a doctor, attending
to the patient and discussing the case history is a high pay-off
activity. However, there could be low pay-off activities also, which
you have to do, which may not result in a very high degree of return
on investment of time. For example, for a writer, arranging the
margin for the article after it is typed is low pay-off activity. For
a lawyer, arranging the briefs and re-arranging the reference books
are low pay-off activities. For a doctor, preparing syringe and
organising the table to receive the patient are low pay-off
activities. Whether you like it or not you have to do low pay-off
activities. However, your strategy should compress the total time
spent on the low pay off activities to the bearest minimum. This is
possible by bringing about a system.
For example, if you do
not have a secretary to do your filing work and you have to do it on
your own, go for a good filing system. Go to the nearest stationery
shop and look for a system, which will help you to complete your
filing in a short span of time. If you have to hold lot of visiting
cards yourself, go for a visiting card album or buy an electronic
gadget where you can put the contents of all the visiting cards, so
that you can easily carry it around. In order to have your own system
of reminder program your reminders. If you have to make lot of
telephone calls, use the speaker telephone facility or the telephone
dialer facility in your computer. These systems will greatly reduce
the time spent on low pay-off activities. Think innovatively and
creatively on how you can reduce your time on low pay-off activities.
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