Here’s How To Achieve More Than You Thought Possible
by Mike Agugliaro
Leverage is using a small amount of power, intelligently applied, to achieve a comparably larger result. There are several powerful ways that you can leverage your time to achieve even more than you thought possible. Here are the ways I use leverage in my business to get comparably larger results. Automation and technology: Leverage your time by using technology and by automating parts of your business. For example, email, Skype, and YouTube are all great ways that you can connect with your team regularly even when they are out on the road. Delegation and outsourcing: Leverage others to help you achieve more in less time by handing off lower-value work to others and doing only the highest-value work for yourself. Figure out what your time is worth, and then make a list of all the work you do and assign a dollar value to it. Any work that is less than the value of your time should be handed off to someone else. Want to master your time, money, and success? Get leverage and multiply yourself by using automation, technology, delegation, and outsourcing to do more in less time. But first, you’ll probably have to break through your limiting beliefs to retrain your mind that you DON’T have to do everything yourself. (Most people think that only they can do it all and that handing it off is either cheating or will • •
result in lower-quality work.) You can get a lot more work done if you hand the work off and then use leadership and teammanagement skills to monitor progress and get results.
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Create checklists for everything in your business — from a checklist of the very first activities that someone needs to do when they arrive in the morning, all the way through the day, and ending with a checklist of activities to be completed by the last person to leave at night. Don’t forget checklists for cleaning, end-of- day activities, end-of-month activities, marketing, and more. (I’ve already created a marketing checklist that you can use when creating marketing! You can get it, along with other great resources, by going to CEOWARRIOR.com/warriorlibrary.) Save time traveling by communicating with vendors through a video call, or even have them come to your office. Expand this thinking to your personal life, too. Can you get groceries or your dry cleaning delivered to your door? You’ll save a lot of time, which can be better spent making memories with your loved ones. within your company and see if people are doing mule work when they should be doing warrior work at their level. One example might be something like this: Do you need a warehouse guy to handle your warehouse so that your higher-paid experts are free to spend more time on house calls? Remember, it’s not JUST about getting more time for yourself. Look at other roles
Here are some ideas to get you started and to expand your mind:
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Record videos (and get your staff to record at-the-jobsite videos) to automate the training of new hires. You can also use videos in other parts of your business, too, like team communication, marketing and sales, and more. This is a fast way for you and your team to interact clearly and efficiently. There are two types of work —mule work (which is lower-value and repetitive) and warrior work (which is higher-value and helps to build your business). Know the difference between the two and make sure you are only doing warrior work. Group together several similar jobs and hire a new person for that position. For example, if you’re doing a lot of recruiting activities, group those activities together and hire a recruiter. Look outside of your company for help — there are many outsource firms that can do a lot of work, but you might not be thinking of them because you’re only looking in-house. Can someone else help you with marketing, for example?
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Here are the first three warrior steps to get a fast start:
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Overcome your limiting beliefs that YOU need to do it all yourself.
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Make a list of everything you do, prioritized by the value it contributes to your life and business. Identify which actions can be automated with technology and which can be delegated or outsourced.
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