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Chapter 20
Just Don’t  
Do It!

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uch  of  time  management  seeks  to  help  us  do  things 
faster and do more than one thing at once, so we can fit 
more doing into the same limited amount of time.
But no time management plan can work without attention to 
the tasks themselves.
Here’s  where  the  famous  admonition  to  “work  smarter,  not 
harder” comes into play.
Spend just a little time today questioning some of the tasks you do 
every day, and you can save tons of time every day from now on.
hOW TO eLiminaTe UnneCeSSarY STepS
“I’m so busy doing the dance,” a worker laments, “I haven’t got 
time to learn the steps.”
Let’s free up some time by eliminating some of those steps, the 
ones that aren’t getting you anywhere.