The 5 Time Assassins

 

Your calendar may not be overloaded because you have too much work. It may be overloaded because of how you behave when work reaches you.

In the book ‘Buy Back Your Time’, author Dan Martell identifies 5 #TimeAssassins:

1.      The Staller waits for more certainty.

2.      The Speed Demon would rather do it himself than slow down and explain.

3.      The Supervisor delegates the task but keeps the control.

4.      The Saver protects money while consuming expensive leadership time.

5.      The Self-Medicator manages the stress created by overload without changing the system creating it.

They are not all that bad actually …

The Staller protects certainty.
The Supervisor protects control.
The Saver protects the feeling of being prudent.
The Speed Demon protects momentum.

Which means some time-management problems are not time problems at all. They are leadership behaviours showing up in the calendar.

·         A better diary system will not fix a control problem.

·         A productivity app will not fix indecision.

·         And delegation training will not help much if being needed has become part of your identity.

The calendar is only the symptom. The real bottleneck is the behaviour underneath it.

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