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Today's tip is to consider whether your processes at work and at home reflect your current reality.

If you are doing something now that was useful in the past but isn't any longer, it might be a good moment to update things.

You can save yourself an incredible amount of time.

Today's tip comes from a TED Talk by Salvatore Kali,

a partner at the Boston Consulting Group.

Kali's TED Talk focuses on workflows that waste time and how to streamline or eliminate

them.

He asserts one of the best places to find waste is in a company's processes, because they usually

reflect your company's past, more than its present or future.

These legacies are massive waste generators.

I think we can all think of processes that have outlived their usefulness.

Maybe a daily reporting process made sense in an all-paper world,

but it is inefficient or unnecessary when so many things are digital. Or maybe you've got a

procedure that worked when you were all in the same office as your team, but now you are

distributed across the country.

A process that worked for your kids 10 years ago may feel limiting because kids grow and change too.

If you are feeling pressed for time and want to be more efficient, see whether there are processes in your life that you can update.

For instance, maybe you have long been a believer in doing a small load of laundry every day.

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