You’re an ambitious person. And it can feel like you NEED to optimize ever little detail of life.
But that’s actually making you less productive… So here’s why and Three tips to help you to fix it.
When you optimize every detail, you’re forgetting two important things.
- You have a finite amount of time and energy – Focusing on overly small details is time and energy you could’ve put towards big wins. Learn to let small bad things happen so good BIG things can happen.
- You’re getting diminishing returns – Focusing on the format of your upcoming presentation. That’s a good use of time. But agonizing over if your title should be Navy blue or ocean blue… Probably not as useful.
Every hour you spend on a task, you’re getting less output for the time you’re inputting.
You want to learn to maximize the output from your time and energy input.
That’s how you’ll get the best results in life.
So here are a 3 tips to help you do that.
- Take your priorities. Rank them from highest to lowest – The lower on your list something is, the less time you should spend optimizing it. EG investing time into a BIG presentation VS deciding if you should order grilled chicken or chicken thighs at dinner.
- Before you jump into action, decide what “good enough” looks like. Know what areas you can compromise on and still deliver results.
EG If my website users can get the info they need from my website, and the layout is straight forward. Does it really matter what font I use?
You can come back to this when you get free time, but you should focus on bigger things at first like driving traffic and getting customer feedback.
- Keep redefining your definition of good enough – As a high achiever, it’s easy to hold yourself to incredibly high standards. But a lot of these details matter more in your head than they do in reality. Practice letting small things slide and watch yourself get MORE work done overall.
TL;DR
- Know your priorities – This’ll help you be proactive with how you spend your time, not reactive.
- Decide what good enough looks like ahead of time. Don’t worry what others will think (there’ll always be haters). Just decide what will get you your desired results (you can always improve things later on)
- Practice letting small things slide. This is how you’ll have the time and energy to accomplish big things.
