Vishen Lakhiani describes a productivity system based on Jim Collins' work: list every recurring task, assign a dollar value per hour, and stop doing anything below your hourly rate. This frees you to focus on your zone of genius.
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In Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about his Stop doing list. I call it my fuck it list because I have my bucket list and I have my fuck it list. So the bucket list is all the stuff I want to do before I die, and the fuck it list is all the stuff that life's too short. Fuck it. I'm not doing it anymore. So I'll give you a really good system to help you with this. You might have 80 things on your list of things that you do every month. So what I do is I open a spreadsheet and I write down every single task in column A. In column B, I categorize them all in one of four ways. Either I for incompetent, C for competent, E for excellent, and U for unique ability. And then in column C, for each task, you write down a dollar value. If you were paying someone just to do that task every day, all day, put an hourly rate down for all those things. Then what you want to start doing is getting stuff off your list or putting it onto your stop doing list. Anything that's below your hourly rate. The more you can get off your list so that all you do is work in your your zone of genius. Unique ability. Then you win.
