Multiply Your Time by Asking 4 Questions About the Stuff on Your To-Do List

This article from Ideas.TED.com shares how leadership coach Rory Vaden describes what’s wrong about the mostly commonly taught time management techniques.

Most of us manage our time the same ways: by writing to-do lists and prioritizing the items on those lists. We decide upon our priorities by assessing the relative urgency and importance of our tasks.

But there’s a third criteria considered by a group of people whom Vaden calls “time multipliers”: significance. Rather than asking “What’s the most important thing I can do today?”, time multipliers ask “What’s the most important thing I can do today that would make tomorrow better?”

In other words, by thinking about how we use our time today, we can free up our hours in the future. One example of how this works: setting up online bill payment. Perhaps you’ve put off doing it because you think, “I just don’t have two hours to go through all my services and accounts, find their websites or apps, and input my bank information.”

Learn more about how to multiply your tie in this article and Vaden’s TEDxDouglasville Talk