Thursday, February 25, 2021
This is one of my favorite work management strategies – I call it “The D Strategy.”
With every task you have 4 “D” choices:
- Do.
- Delete.
- Delegate.
- Defer. (aka Schedule)
Please note, we said “choices.” So with every task you view on your to-do list, you have one of these 4 choices.
And to choose means another important D. DECIDE.
The overarching D is to Decide. Every time you look at a task, you have an opportunity to make a choice about how you’ll handle it. You take an action.
Successful people make these choices. It moves each task forward in some way… you either DO it, DELETE it (trash, never to be seen again,) DELEGATE it (have someone else do it,) or DEFER it (schedule it for another specific time.)
Unfortunately, many people choose another productivity sapping D, — DELAY. They DELAY making one of these 4 choices by looking at the task and saying “I’ll decide on what to do with this later.”
This DELAYing your decision creates DUPLICATE work because you’ll just look at it again. This D is the one you should avoid.
Employ the D Strategy – It’s more about the DOING.
About Marsha Egan, CPCU, CSP, PCC, ICF-Certified CoachMarsha Egan, is CEO of the Egan Group, Inc., Nantucket MA and an internationally recognized professional speaker. She is a leading authority on email productivity. Her acclaimed ?12 Step Program for E-Mail E-ddiction? received international attention, being featured on ABC Nightly News, Fox News, and newspapers across the globe. In early 2009, the program was adapted into a book, Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus 2009 - http://InboxDetox.com/book) Marsha works with forward-thinking organizations that want to create a profit-rich and productive email culture. Marsha was named one of Pennsylvania?s Top 50 Women in Business in 2006.