3D Way to Explode Your Productivity

The 3D Way to Explode Your Productivity
By Noah St. John, Ph.D.

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."
— Ronald Reagan

There are three things you can do with the Activities that come across your desk every day: you can DO them, DELETE them or DELEGATE them.

Those are the three D’s — Do, Delete, or Delegate — that we can do with anything that comes into our lives.

When you ask, "What Activities can I DO from my 'want to do LESS' pile (just get them over with)?”, these are what you want to do less of, but that HAVE to be done.
This might include bookkeeping, accounting, your newsletter or any number of other tedious-to-you Activities.

Like swallowing your medicine or going to the dentist, sometimes we just have to DO them and get them over with.

Then: "What Activities can I DELETE my 'want to do LESS' pile (just get rid of them)?" These may be things you've been telling yourself you "have to do". But upon closer inspection, maybe you don't. These are the things you can Delete.

Then: "What Activities can I DELEGATE from my 'want to do LESS' pile - and to whom?"
If you want to truly, dramatically explode your productivity - and your profits - the most important D is to Delegate.

Why? Because it's where you start to multiply your effectiveness and gain LEVERAGE in your life.

This is what happy, rich people do. Happy, rich people gain great leverage by delegating.
Do you think Donald Trump goes around building all those big buildings? Uh, no.
He goes around telling people, "Do this, this, and this," in that weird New York accent. I'm not saying we should act like Donald Trump; maybe for you, you need to delegate the laundry.

Another great question to install your Activities System is: "Who will I be ACCOUNTABLE to for reporting how I use my time, money and energy?"

You may be accountable to your whole group, or just to one other person.
You might say to your spouse or someone on your team: "Starting now, I'm going to Do, Delete and Delegate at higher levels. If you catch me NOT doing this, I want you to call me on it."

Give your Loving Mirrors PERMISSION to hold you accountable for your actions.
This is positive peer pressure: telling everybody that you're going to do something positive. If you fall short, everyone will see that, and you'll be embarrassed.
Since no one wants to be embarrassed (that's one of the world's biggest Why-Not-To), you will FORCE YOURSELF to take action.