The internet is full of useful efficiency hacks.
“How to meal prep a week’s worth of food in under one hour”
“How to automatically save money with this one app”
“How to read a book in 15 minutes”
“How to see more patients per hour”
“How to use AI scribe to cut down your paperwork”
etc.
etc.
It’s great to be efficient and have seamless systems in place. Optimization is your key strategy for tasks that need to be repeated and done regularly to keep life easy.
Efficiency.
Delegation.
Minimization.
Stewardship.
All great.
All useful.
I love efficient systems that free up time. If you are overwhelmed and time-poor, you need to invest some time up front into setting up efficient systems for the “easy-no” tasks in your life.
Optimization is a great approach for the “easy-no” tasks. But you can surely see that adding more things into your life and becoming more and more efficient will only get you so far.
Because you can be very efficient, and still not be anywhere close to work-life greatness.
You need more approaches in your life!
Next week we will discuss the “difficult-no.”
Question: “Where in your life is it hard for you to say no?”
