25. How To Be Awesome At Automating, Eliminating & Delegating

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, Lindsay talks all about doing what you’re best at and what you like doing the most.

Start with a good brain dump. Write it all down… big and small… things you want to do today, this week, this year or things you think you do until next year… whatever it is, if it’s on your mind… get it out!

Then… go through your list and see what falls into each category…

Automate. Eliminate. Delegate.

Are you making yourself crazy trying to do everything yourself?? You have to stop!

And here’s how!

1. Automate

Automation takes time and makes it into more time.

Anything you create a process for today…. saves you time tomorrow. So you get a return on this time invested.

2. Eliminate

Does it really need to be done?

One of the hardest parts of this is… we struggle with guilt.

We want to say no but we end up saying yes.

We go through life trying to never say no.

You can’t go through life trying to never say no because the thing is… you are always saying no to something - anytime you say yes to one thing- you are saying no to an infinite number of other things.

But you have to think about… what items on your list don’t absolutely need to be done?

Which items do you do because you think you “should” and not because it serves any particular purpose?

What do you do for others out of obligation or guilt?

Which activities do you do simply because you've always done them, even though you may not need to anymore?

What do you do mindlessly, without intention?

3. Delegate

What can someone else do for you?

Because you dread it or maybe they can be more efficient with it?

A lot of time we don’t delegate because we think… they can’t do it as well as we do.

And a lot of times that's true!

But you have to allow for imperfection!

And understand they will likely get better at it!

First, find the right person and how them how you do it. Then, focus on the outcome and let go of the process. Speed over perfection, baby!!

THEN… look at what's left on your list! Evaluate what remains!!

Your list shouldn’t be a million miles long anymore!

You should be left with your essential few!

Lindsay’s a big fan of looking at what we are doing… and what parts of it do you like and not like? What do you dread? Maybe you don’t have to dread it.. maybe you don’t have to do it at all! Because for so many things…. You can delegate, automate and eliminate.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm all about efficiency. And these three little words are my secrets to working at my most efficient
0:05.1	state. Automate, eliminate, delegate. When I really put this into motion, my world got so much
0:11.8	more efficient. Today, we're talking about efficiency and how you can organize everything you need to do
0:16.8	or think you need to do. Then run it through this system. Can it be automated? Can it be
0:22.1	eliminated? Can it be delegated? I only do something after I run it through this test. I have so much
0:28.1	more time and I'm spending the majority of my time only doing the things I really want to be doing
0:33.2	and the things I'm best at. I really believe it works for anyone in any stage of life.
0:38.5	It will help you become more efficient and have more time to do what you really want to be doing
0:43.7	because I believe we are the happiest when we get to do whatever it is we want to be doing
0:49.7	most of the time. So this is a big deal. Let's go.
0:53.8	You're listening to the How to Be Awesome
0:56.1	at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host,
1:03.2	Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants
1:08.4	to do things over the top at all times. This concept started as a
1:12.8	collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to get to her kids one day. And now
1:17.5	it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.
1:23.5	Here's Lindsay. You probably know I love a good brain dump. When we're doing this exercise to become
1:30.7	our most efficient selves, I love starting with a full brain dump. That means make a big list.
1:36.8	Write it all down. Big and small, the things you want to do today, this week, this year, or things
1:42.0	you have on your mind and you're not going to do it until next year,
1:44.8	but it's on your mind. Write it down, get it out. Let's make a master list. Everything that's on
1:51.1	our mind, everything we need to do, want to do, get it all out there, right? So there's nothing left
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