{"id":14957,"date":"2023-09-22T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:57:15","slug":"how-busy-entrepreneurs-deal-with-mundane-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/how-busy-entrepreneurs-deal-with-mundane-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Busy Entrepreneurs Deal With Mundane Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As exciting as the entrepreneur’s life is, you have to deal with mundane tasks. Mundane tasks are repetitive, boring, unproductive and yet necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do busy entrepreneurs do about these mundane tasks? Is there a way to conquer the mountain of minutiae, while still saving your best time for the really important stuff? Here are the entrepreneur’s secrets to dealing with mundane tasks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They avoid them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Avoidance? Is this appropriate? In some cases, yes. Let’s consider Mundane Public Enemy Number One: The daily commute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question:<\/strong> Why do so many busy people have sleeping bags in their office?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0So they can work as late as they want and avoid that time-draining hassle of getting in the car and going somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should you have to bother with such a hassle? Instead of settling for a daily commute, go for a twice-weekly commute. Stack all your meetings on one or two days, and work remote the rest of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s consider another mundane task, such as selecting your wardrobe for the day. Take a page from the president’s playbook<\/a>. He eliminates the time-wasting decision of what to wear by buying a few sets of clothes that he can easily pull off the rack and put on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can avoid a mundane task, do it. Entrepreneurs streamline their lives so they can focus on one thing only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They don’t say yes to anything they cannot or should not do.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An entrepreneur knows what’s important and what’s not. That’s why he or she can say yes to all the right things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more things you say “yes” to, the more you’ll clutter your calendar with the detritus of a wasted day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They do the right stuff at the right time.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Being productive is more about energy management<\/a> than it is about time management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your creative energy is at its peak, it might take you\u00a040 minutes to write an article,<\/a>\u00a0whereas when your energy is low, the same task might take two hours. Do your most productive work when you have the greatest amount of energy. Then use your low-energy slump to plow through the mundane stuff. This approach is called chunking. If you consign the mundane tasks to a few hours, say on a weekend morning, then you’ll be able to fly through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They schedule like a control freak.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The worst kind of mundane task is the interruption. When some gadfly comes knocking around your office and “just wants to chat” you’re doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best approach is to keep your calendar locked up with blocks of time where you get stuff done. These “blocks of time” aren’t useless meetings, but rather are portions of your day when you can accomplish significant work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as you schedule your most important work, you should also\u00a0schedule time to accomplish your mundane tasks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They outsource them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A virtual assistant is a great way to eliminate huge amounts of mundanity. Here are just a few of the things that a virtual assistant can do<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n