(2017-05-04) Kagan Time Management Tips Of Insanely Busy People

Noah Kagan gives Time Management Tips of Insanely Busy People

Experiment #1 – Organizing Time by Energy Level

First, I thought I wasn’t spending enough of my day in “Maker” time.

Second, I thought I wasn’t spending enough time learning.

What I Learned from Experiment #1

1) I was about 80% of the way there

2) How I spend time is NOT how I spend attention

a lot of the time I spent doing other things, I was actually worrying about work

made me double down on my mindfulness meditation practice

3) I needed to eliminate some Manager Time

4) We don’t always know what we want

5) The opportunity cost of saying “Yes”

Experiment #2 – Organizing by Value

I used a table provided by Perry Marshall in his book 80/20 Sales and Marketing that broke tasks down into $10 – $10,000 per hour

What I Learned from Experiment #2

1) I needed to reduce my $10 per hour and $100 per hour task time

2) Tasks that seem the same can have dramatically different values

*In his document Perry lists “attending most meetings” as a $10 per hour task and “Establishing values and culture” as a $10,000 per hour task.

On my calendar, both these activities might be labeled as “team meeting” but how they were conducted dramatically altered the value*

How to Plan and Live Your Own Ideal Week

The 80/20 Version for Busy People

you could do a much simpler (and still super effective version):

• At the end of the day, write out how you would ideally like to spend your day tomorrow
• Track your time tomorrow
• Compare the reality of how you spent your time vs. the ideal of how you would like to spend your time
• Pick one thing you can change to move you closer to your ideal day*