If you want to become more productive, you can also delegate and learn to say no. Let's say that you are an entrepreneur, and you have listed the important tasks. Can you delegate them to other people, other other people, for example, your personal assistant who could do the tasks? Well, well enough, let's say like that are other like other people who could do the task well enough other people, because then you can get your time back through other people's efforts. And being productive doesn't mean to do everything by yourself, being productive, it's also being smart about it. Because if there are tasks that other people could be doing, and it can free Your time is something that can be great.
So if you are if you have like an assistant or if you have someone that can help you give work to that person, I know it can be difficult sometimes because you think that you can do better than them. Because if any especially entrepreneur like we think We can do better we can, we can only do the work. And if you really want to be free and more productive, you must understand that it's okay to give tasks to other people. And they can do well, they can do a great job. It's, it's also your job to train them, and to show them exactly how you want them to do it. So delegates, the task can be great.
So when you have your milestones when you have the actions that you want to take, ask yourself this question, can I delegate this task to people? The goal is not to give all your work to your colleagues. Just to be clear. It's just that if there are tasks that your assistant or someone that can help you could do just give them to that person if you think that they can do the job. Okay. And the second one is about saying no, because you will have people who will ask you to do something, they will say, your colleagues say hey, can you help me with this work your boss to say, Can you do that?
You will have people who will ask To do extra work or the kind of work, and sometimes it's great to say no, if it doesn't concern you, if you don't gain anything from it. And if it's not a direct order of, you must have your own criteria to judge if you should do it or not. But what I would like to say is that most of the time, you don't need to do what people ask you to do. I'm not saying, I'm not saying, Oh, yes, I'm not saying to say yes to people, and then don't do it. But I'm just saying that sometimes your colleague will ask you to do something, and it's not your job, it's theirs. So you can also remind them that it's not your job.
It's theirs in a polite way, for sure. But what I want to show you here is that you can save a few hours per day, if you just work on on your stuff. I'm not saying not to be helpful when your colleagues come and ask for help, but don't do their work. If it still work. You just have to remind them of their responsibilities and have their priorities. Okay, I know it's maybe something that most people don't like.
And I'm not comfortable with that. But here's the training about being productive, and take it to the extent that you want. Okay? So like, if you really like helping your colleagues and do all the work, just do it, but maybe do a little bit less, so that you can become more productive. And if you're already productive, and you are already comfortable with saying, No, you can just continue doing what you're doing and become more productive, but it's all about finding the balance. Because saying no all the time to everyone around you is not a great thing either.
So just find the balance and you must be comfortable with that. And it should do it. Well, you can, you can save a few hours per day.