Instead of working harder, increase your productivity by operationalizing using as much of your work as possible. Then, delegate your recurring tasks.

Here’s a list of my operations checklists.

If you work for yourself, I strongly recommend reading this article from @nateliason. It’s called “The Personal Leverage Loop” and it’ll instantly change the way you think about your work.

Define, refine, automate, delegate.

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/personal-leverage

“How can I delegate my tasks?”

1) Outline the vision.
2) Share resources.
3) Describe your definition of done.

Source: https://profitfactory.com/360delegation/ 

The better you define your tasks, the more efficiently you can do them.

It’s called the Law of Mechanical Turk: “Any project, if broken down into sufficiently small, predictable parts, can be accomplished for awfully close to free.”

(h/t Seth Godin) https://perell.com/podcast/seth-godin-writing-every-day/

Here’s another look at my productivity system, focused more on how I use Evernote and Kanban boards. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1261415748817186817

“The best question to ask yourself is: could someone else do this thing at least 80% as well as me? If the answer is yes, delegate it. 

Keep doing that until you're left with the few core things you need to, and want to, be doing.”

— @nateliason