Eliminate, Automate, Delegate
Cut your workload and save time, effort, and money with this simple productivity framework.
Useful When
- You want to focus on high-value tasks, delegate the rest
- You want to eliminate unnecessary tasks to save time and energy
- You want to automate repetitive tasks for efficiency
About
Filter your day-to-day tasks to be lean, efficient, and highly profitable.
Think of what you can eliminate in your operations. After you get rid of the unnecessary, consider what processes can be automated. After you’ve eliminated dead weight and automated as much as you can, you can now focus on delegating the remaining tasks or decide to do it yourself.
The simple 4-step process for productivity:
- Eliminate unnecessary tasks
- Automate the repetitive
- Delegate what you can
- Only do the most value-adding tasks yourself
Examples
“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How’s that for incentive to be effective and efficient?” — Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
