Earning $10k per hour is for most, an impossible dream, however we seldom realise that each time we undertake a task or project, we can indeed value our time.

Yesterday we spoke about how to streamline your life with the GSD system.

We left out labelling because that in itself is a whole subject in itself.

The problems you may come across when prioritising your tasks, is before long you begin to class everything as urgent.

Perhaps after a while of this you will have urgent and super urgent tasks, however this is not a good place to be in, as looking at a whole page of urgent tasks that never get any smaller, will stress you out and effect your flow.

You Pay Your Tasks In Time

Whether you are a 9-5 employee or equivalent, a freelancer or subcontractor, it is pretty easy to work out what you're getting paid for any given work task.

However even when you are carrying out non-work related chores, you are still paying with your time. Although not all the tasks you will work on are equal.

For instance buying a pint of milk from the shop, is not as important as paying your phone bill.

Conversely, paying your phone bill is not as important as meeting with a perspective client, and so it goes on.

The problem comes when we try and split these things up by grade of importance, using for instance, a 3 tier system of red, orange and green.

So you may be sitting there, and for some reason you've missed paying your bill and you're about to get cut off, so you put a reminder in Trello and you mark it as urgent.

On the same day you are having a meeting with somebody who could throw a lot of work your way, so you mark that as urgent too.

You need your coffee in the morning, so you put a 'buy milk' reminder, and that of course is urgent, because you won't have time to have your coffee before your meeting if you don't have any milk.

Uh-oh we're getting to a situation whereby everything is urgent . . .

So what's the solution?

The trick is to group your activities and then give them a dollar value, lets have a look at how to do that.

Working For $10,000 Per Hour

In Perry Marshall's excellent book, 80/20 Sales & Marketing there exists a chart to help you value your actions.

As you can see above, it is geared towards somebody with their own business. What you will notice is essential boring tasks are put in the $10 per hour column.

This is because whilst these tasks are absolutely necessary, on their own, they will not yield any fruit. As we move to the right, the tasks are more productive, therefore they are valued higher.

Crucially, we can see that tasks that will ultimately save you time; are valued higher than the original activity.

So for instance if you look at the bottom of the $100 p/h column, you see that it has outsourcing simple tasks, and of course a simple task is anything in the ten bucks an hour column, like cleaning.

Then we see that delegating complex ($100 p/h) tasks, is a $1000 an hour task.

Lastly we see that selecting team members (long term employees) is considered a $10,000 an hour task.

So how does this relate to your life; especially if you are not a business owner or self employed?

Well the trick is to think about the tasks in your life, and borrow a little bit from the chart above.

For instance, working on a bolt-from-the-blue idea is still for me a $10,000 p/h task and planning and prioritising my day`is indeed worth $1000 p/h to me.

Personal Touch

So the point of this exercise was to get you to understand that certain tasks always carry the same value.

That isn't to say that the low value tasks don't need your attention, of course they do.

However by laying out your days and weeks this way, you will be able to see at a glance if you're filling your time with too many tasks of a particular value.

You don't want to fill up your time with purely low value tasks, but at the same time if your days are just filled with high value tasks, then you won't be doing the nuts and bolts stuff, like paying bills.

Of course in an ideal world, we would all be able to afford a personal assistant to do the low value stuff for us.

Until that time, try and get a nice balance; achieve this by doing at least one $1000 task a day and attempt a minimum of one $10,000 per week.

As you flow from left to right, from inbox to archive, you will be able to see yourself progressing along whichever path you have chosen.

Most importantly of all, by organising, prioritising and delegating in this way. You free your mind while giving it a chance to get into flow.

The Incredible You! Flow State Series So Far:

Incredible You! - Organise Your Life With The Get Sh*t Done System!
Incredible You! - Flow Your Way To Success With The Power Of Single Tasking
Incredible You! Single Task Training - 3 Steps To Flow
Incredible You! Single Task Training The Final Test - Becoming A Flow Jedi

Incredible You! - Feeling The Flow With The Power Of Touch
Incredible You! - Connect To The Moment And Enhance Your Power With Sound
Incredible You! - Move Like An Animal With Ido Portal
Incredible You! - Finding Your Flow State Superpower

SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? HOW DO YOU ORGANISE YOUR EVENTS AND TASKS? WILL YOU TRY THE GET SH*T DONE SYSTEM? AS EVER, LET ME KNOW BELOW!

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