One of the most common complaints I hear from people is that they “have no bandwidth.” And I sympathize—how much of the time does it feel like you have way too much on your plate?
But as long as you view your work through the lens of areas, you’ll never quite know just how much is on your plate. Looking at the list above, how much of a workload does “Hiring” represent? It could be anything from making a part-time hire every six months to filling fifty full-time positions this quarter.
There’s simply no way to know at a glance, and that uncertainty will manifest itself as every area feeling more burdensome than it really is.
Imagine if you identified each of the projects within Hiring and kept that list in front of you every day. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to tell how much there is to do and what you should do next? For example: