What Do You Value

Happy Thursday All,

If you sat down and listed the top 5 most important things you need to be doing each week in your job, what would they be?  Would your boss, internal customer, or external customer agree with your top 5?

What about your time commitment?  Does that agree with your top 5 most important things?  Each week, we all have the same amount of time, it's how we use it that creates value for our boss and/or internal or external customer.  If I believe one of my top 5 is to make sure we are producing and shipping product on the date we have promised the customer, and I spend 2 minutes per day looking at a work in process and working on hitting dates, and we are not hitting dates...well, that doesn't show my time commitment is in agreement with my priorities.

I want to challenge each of you to work ON your business instead of IN your business for one hour next week.  

• Get to a quiet place.
• List 20 things you think are important that you do on your job.
• Narrow it down to what you, your customer and/or boss would say your top 5 are.
• Do a brutally honest evaluation of what you have been spending your time and attention on.
• Make adjustments on your calendar for next week to make sure your focused time commitment is in agreement with your top 5.

If you keep a time log, you will see what you value.  What are you spending your time on?

Have a great Thursday,

Chris