January 11, 2024

8 Questions That Help Entrepreneurs Prioritize and Get More Done

26 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Brett Ingram shares eight questions that help entrepreneurs prioritize and get more done. He emphasizes the importance of understanding how time is being spent and identifying high-leverage activities. The questions include evaluating the necessity of tasks, determining what to spend more or less time on, considering additional tasks if there was more time, assessing the impact of tasks on business growth, exploring automation with technology, and determining if tasks can be delegated or taught to others. By answering these questions, entrepreneurs can eliminate, automate, outsource, and delegate tasks to focus on the most important activities for business success.

Takeaways

Evaluate how time is being spent to identify high-leverage activities.

Assess the necessity of tasks and eliminate those that are not essential for business growth.

Determine what tasks to spend more or less time on based on their impact on business growth.

Consider additional tasks that would be done if there was more time available.

Explore automation with technology to streamline tasks and save time.

Evaluate if tasks can be delegated or taught to others to free up time.

Calculate the cost of getting someone else to do a task and compare it to the value of doing it oneself.

Regularly reassess and prioritize tasks to focus on the most important activities for business success.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:39 Question 1: What am I spending the bulk of my time on?

04:27 Question 2: Is everything I'm doing 100% necessary to grow my business?

06:52 Question 3: What do I want to spend more time on? What do I want to spend less time on?

10:11 Question 4: What other things would I do if I had more time?

12:06 Question 5: Are the other things I would do higher impacting for growing my business than what I'm doing now?

13:29 Question 6: Can anything I'm doing be automated with technology?

16:43 Question 7: Could someone else do it for me? Can I teach it to somebody else?

19:36 Question 8: What is the cost to get someone else to do it?

21:32 Conclusion

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