Making Yourself Irreplaceable: Most Valuable Activities

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To make yourself irreplaceable, you want to understand which of your activities are the most valuable. When you spend the majority of your time on activities that bring the most to
the business' bottomline, you're making yourself irreplaceable.

Your most valuable activities are the things you do that are worth the most per hour.

Your success at work depends in large part on your ability to be selective with your activities.

The question is, what's one thing I can do to make your job easier for you?

If you need help coming up with an hourly rate try taking what you think an annual salary for this position would be and divide it by 2080, which is 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours a week.

As we fill the glass up with water, your MVAs, it becomes more valuable and it leaves less and less room for air, your LVAs.

Rather than making conscious decisions about what they're doing with their time,
they become purely reactive to requests from coworkers and events around them.
We need to become strategic about how to serve both others and our career and that leads us to the third tool, which is to build a strategy to get out of LVA traps.


Order of offloading:
1. improve personal systems
2. improve business systems
3. use best technology
4. outsource
5. hire help

Swith Busters
1. turn off & schedule time to check
2. 1-on-1 meeting instead of many 'quick questions'
3. silence or music
4. use the phone
5. schedule less

Internal Swith Busters
1. schedule time to check messages
2. use a gathering point for ideas
3. schedule time for processing decisions
4. turn off screen or walk away
5. pause, breathe deeply, and relax