Step 1 - How to Outsource

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1. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 1 - Step 1 – How to Outsource SUMMARY KEYWORDS tasks, outsourcing, outsource, filter, mark, checkmark, list, cleaning, tally, level, lowers, enjoy, stress, point, tally mark, deciding, focus, page, give, consuming SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hey there, okay, our first step in outsourcing is, I want you to write down a list of everything that you do. This might be at home, it might be at work and at home, in your business, all the things that you do, I want you to write them down brain dump as many things you can add on to the page. Once you finish that, you're gonna go back and mark number one, put like a little tally mark or a check mark or whatever, it doesn't matter, mark it, anything that you do not like doing, give that a mark. I hate doing this, I want it. Anything you don't want to do, pool checkmark. Patricia Sung 00:39 Number two, you're gonna go back to the list again, mark with another tally, anything that you're just not good at. Mark that one. So some things might have to check, some will have one somewhat none. Okay, the next thing you're going to mark anything that is time consuming, just takes longer than either you want it to or it just takes long, because it takes long, give it another tally, then I want you to mark anything that you're currently avoiding doing get an extra mark. And so some of these things will have up to four checkmarks or tallies whatever next to them. That will give you a good starting place of these are probably the things you should start outsourcing. And we're going to run these through a filter though. Patricia Sung 01:18 Two things we want to think about is one, is this task truly unnecessary. We don't want to outsource things that we don't have to do sometimes we put in ourselves that we are supposed to do stuff like I'm supposed to, like make fancy scrapbooks for my kids. Do you really have to make fancy scrapbooks for your kids? Like can we can we not Is that okay? For you, it might be really important, great, do it, maybe it's not that important to you, you just thought you should do it. And you can cross that off the list. We don't need to outsource those things because they don't have to be done. Patricia Sung 01:53 The second filter we're going to put it through is does this have to be me, there are certain things that we do that do need to be us and we can't outsource those. There are some things that we think have to be us and they don't, we can outsource those. And obviously there are some things that are obviously we can get someone else to do. So as you look at the list of all the things that you have lots of tally marks for you filter them through that they aren't necessarily things that that really truly need to be
2. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 2 - done. And they are things that do not have to be done by you. That's where we would start. Now, depending on your personality, and how you feel about things, you might have lots of things that are obvious, like jumping out at you and some maybe you don't have that money. Patricia Sung 02:36 The other two questions I want you to ask yourself are one, what would give you the most time back? So if you were to start with just one thing, where would you get the most time back, what would take the like the biggest weight off your plate. And so the second part of that is like what would lowers your stress the most. So as you're deciding how like which tests make the most sense to outsource. Now that you've got your like all the tasks, viable tasks to outsource, and then that filter of what is truly the best thing to start with are the things that are make your life the easiest, or give you the most time back. Because I do want to point out that a lot of times we feel like the things that we should give up are the things that we really liked doing. And if you really enjoy doing that task, that's not the first thing to give up, there may come a point in your life where you are going to give away the things that you enjoy more. But that to me, so says like, you're in like intermediate advanced level outsourcing. And at that point, like we're asking ourselves different questions than at the beginning. Patricia Sung 03:36 So if it's something that you truly enjoy, you don't have to give that up. Focus on the things that you really don't enjoy doing. You don't like doing them you're not good at, it doesn't have to be you. It's going to lower your stress level, it's going to give you more time back. Those are the areas we want to focus on first. So now that you've thought about all those things, go ahead and highlight one, two, maybe three tasks that are like, okay, I can give these up. Or if they're like a group of tasks. For example, if you're starting to see like, hey, I really don't want to be cleaning anymore. I can take all these cleaning tasks and make a very clear bubble of like, I would like to hire a cleaning person that that works. But I don't want you to get too overwhelmed by all the things you could give away. Focus in on one, two or three things and we're going to start with those one at first and begin our process that way. But right now you got a good idea of where you want to start with outsourcing.