How to Measure Your Productivity

1. Frozillo goes through his entire day answering emails.
2. ...and fighting customer fires.
3. Frozillo thinks he's productive.

But, Frozillo, you not productive!

How do you measure productivity?

• Take a look at your tasks for the entire day.
• Then, ask your bad-self: "What percentage of the tasks I've completed will matter 5 years from now?"

For instance:

1. Teaching Team Member Charlie how to do Tasks A, B, C, D, E, etc. = won't matter 5 years from now.
2. Creating an operations manual that Team Member Charlie and any other team member in the future can use tomorrow, next year, and five years from now = GOOD.

Ask yourself:

• "What percentage of my day did I spend working on things that will pay big rewards tomorrow/next-week/month/year/5-years?"

Make work last.

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