EPISODE 249

How to take things off your plate


Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:

  • You’re doing waaay too much (but you knew that already)
  • You already know what you need to do to achieve 100% success. You’re just too afraid to do it.
  • There’s a difference between randomly taking things off teachers’ plates and strategically focusing on what matters most.
  • If it isn’t moving you towards your vision, why are you doing it?
  • Sometimes you need to sacrifice the good so that you can focus all your energy on being great.
This episode is the first in a series of practical episodes about how to focus on the right work and stop wasting time on things that don’t matter.

Today, we’re looking at the exact steps Builders use to prune away the things that are sucking away your attention, time, and energy so that you can focus only on the things that will help you achieve your 100% vision. 

You’ll discover the exact steps you need to take to ruthlessly get rid of anything that doesn’t move you towards your vision so that you can focus with discipline on the work that matters most #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:
  • Why you can’t just randomly take things off your plate 
  • How to know what you should be focusing on (and what you can ignore)
  • Why the good is the enemy of the great
  • The 3 Questions Builders use to determine whether something stays or goes
  • How you can defend your choices to your teachers and your district
  • The exact system you can use to figure out what you can safely take off your plate
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