Productivity has been a hot topic for years. You can find plenty of resources that show you how to get more done in less time. The truth is, while that is great, that isn’t what it is all about these days.

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule?

Imagine if you were able to spend 80 percent of your time implementing tasks that were going to bring in revenue and push your business forward. The truth is that most people are not going to do that. They are going to spend 80 on their time on “busy work”.

Reallocate Your Time

If there are places in your life that you know you are wasting time instead of investing time, it is time to say bye bye! Listening to office gossip is not relationship building. That is not good for you in anyway.

Instead focusing your time on creating new opportunities, creating new leadership, seeing who you can delegate tasks to!

Knock out interruptions. We can all be really bad about this. We don’t want to miss an email or facebook update so we let the notifications pour in. We want to make sure we are on top of everything and then we are on top of nothing.

Delegate tasks that someone else could do as good as or better than you. I understand being a control freak, but it is not doing anyone any favors!

I want you to take away from this post – FOCUS! There are plenty of shiny objects available to take our focus away but we need to put our activity into those things that are making us money instead of things that are just taking up our time. The more that we do this, the more our paycheck can grow and we will be a good example to our team as well.