Some people have no qualms about palming off a $300 plumbing job, but when it comes to tasks in their business, they’ll spend hours doing a $25 or $50 job instead of working on income-generating activities.
David walks you through an exercise on how to perform an Audit to Clarify your Genius Zone:
- Find out what you’re good at, so you can stop wasting time on things that don’t work for you
- Clarify your Genius Zone and stay in your Power of Genius
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Jason Cass: [00:00:00] People and their personal life, they will, if they have something simple to do in their bathroom and they need to fix a faucet or something. And it’s something that they could probably watch YouTube and figure out, but it could take a, you know, an hour or two, they don’t have the right tools to do it.
We’ll farm that off in a minute. But when we come into our business, we’ll do jobs that we shouldn’t be doing. Meaning that the one that we’re doing in the bathroom. You know, if you’re an executive or if you’re a business owner and you’re worth $200 an hour, just putting a value on it, then you spending three or four hours putting in that, fixing that faucet doesn’t make very much sense. Because you could hire somebody for $300 to do it.
So we’re smart with our time there. But I notice a lot of business owners are not smart with their time. They will be worth $300 an hour, but they’ll be doing a lot of 25 and $50 tasks. That should be farmed out. That’s some of the leverage, I assume that you’re probably talking about.
David Wood: [00:01:00] So I’ll give you guys a great exercise now. Is you do it, do an audit of your tasks and you can do it both at home and in your job or your business.
So let’s say at home. I went through and I started writing down all the stuff that I was doing during the week that I didn’t want to do. I’m committed to green smoothies every day. I just, I’ve just finished a big green smoothie pack with nutrients, but I don’t like making them. I also don’t even like, I’m lazy.
I get stuff delivered to my door. I don’t even want to go and take the bags and open the bags and put the stuff where it goes and whatever. I don’t like doing Amazon returns. I don’t like going to the post office. So I wrote a list of everything. And then I put an ad out and said, anyone locally interested in a job for 20 bucks an hour, come to my house, just do all the stuff that I don’t have time to do, or don’t want to do.
I’m going to have you sweep. I’ll have you clean the toilet. I want you to scoop the poop when a dog poops out on the balcony, just anything that you can do. And now I’m blessed to have someone support me in that way. At laundry, you name it. You can do this too in your job. I’m coaching a vice-president right now at a big company who just didn’t even realize that, that she wasn’t that happy.
And so what we did is do an audit, go through and list all your tasks. And she realized that some of what she does is strategic and she loves it. And the other stuff is more grunt work and it’s something she shouldn’t really be doing. So she’s now in conversations with the top executives at the top brass to see, would they be willing to help her create a job where she keeps the current strategic stuff, but farms out all the rest.
We’ll see. We don’t, I’m watching each week to see what happens with that. If you run your own business, you really need to do this exercise, everything you do in a week. And then circle the stuff that you love and that you’re really good at, right. If it matches both of those criteria, then that’s the stuff you’re going to want to keep.
Then you start looking at how will I, it might, you might not do it overnight, but maybe over the next week or months, how do I offload everything else to someone else? So I only do the stuff that I really love and I’m really good at.
