117: Plugging Time Leaks to Honor Commitments

You might find it easier to honor your commitments by eliminating the things that waste your time and energy. Here’s how to do it.

Highlights

Time leaks are things that eat away at your commitments and increase the possibility that you will not honor them
Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
- “What you have committed to, up to now, is revealed by what you have produced or failed to produce”
- “Involved with” vs. “committed to”
What gets in the way of honoring your commitments?
What do you do or where do you go when you have 15 or 20 minutes between meetings?
Reducing time leaks adds time back to your day
Having large blocks of time without clear intentions or guard rails
Committing to do certain things in a given day
What things are you doing that aren’t giving you anything back?
Managing Slack by turning off the presence indicator and closing it for an hour as an experiment
Decide what you will say “No” to in a given week to help you plug a time leak–make them small and doable
Unsubscribe from all those newsletters
Disable the notifications on your phone or simply power it off
Where do you go when you are bored or seeking to soothe yourself?
Where do you find yourself without knowing how you got there?
What’s the biggest mindless activity that you do in a day that consumes the most time?