Tuesday, November 11, 2008

What is Efficiency?

I often wonder if my life is as efficient as I'd like it to be. Why do I sometimes leave things incomplete at the end of the day?

This is when I remind myself that we cannot always do it all ourselves. My business coach, Suzanne Evans (suzanneevans.org, www.blueprintlifecoaching.com, www.helpmorepeople.com) points out that there is a limited amount of time in the day. We can either use it better or buy more of it. I am here to help you use your time better. If you have the resources to buy more time, then I can help you develop the best routine to accomplish all your tasks. If resources are tight, we'll work with what we have. Efficiency is not nessecarily getting it all done in one day.

Efficiency is the power to get the MOST done, in the lease time, for the lowest price.

To this end, I have finally launched my website. It is really just a splash page. The rest will follow shortly, as I write the text. I would rather spend my time helping others get organized than playing with my own website. Please check it out: www.efficientandorganized.com. Bookmark it so that you can come back to it as I start adding tips on how to efficiencize your business.

Until next time, stay organized.

Sincerely,
Yoram Schwell

1 comment:

Solanum said...

Efficiency is where it's at. I realized this dilemma most clearly when I was doing a research fellowship. I was the bottom man on the totem pole, charged with the most intricate and tedious work with the data (i.e., I was the only one who actually knew what was going on, which wasn't much, but was more useful than the higher-ups, who only knew what was supposed to be going on).

I'd often have to make a choice when faced with a new challenge- do I take lots of time to go through the data by hand and get the job done, or do I invest the time to try to figure out how to automate or streamline the task? That would speed things up, but I wasn't guaranteed that I would find a solution- I might just waste my time and end up doing it by hand anyway.

It sounds like you've already figured out a lot of time savers (or maybe I should say efficiency-boosters) to help people in this situation!