From the course: Time Management Fundamentals

Identifying your most valuable activities

From the course: Time Management Fundamentals

Identifying your most valuable activities

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- Let's discover your top two MVAs using the Most Valuable Activity Identification worksheet, found on the exercise files. On the left column of the chart, list all the different activities you perform. You'll see, I've already added two activities for you in the handout. The first is travel, meaning traveling to and from work, and wasting time, meaning choosing to waste time at work. Hey, we all waste a little time, right? Continue listing the other activities by imagining yourself wearing many different hats. Each hat representing a mini position. From manager to custodian, to coordinator to sales rep. Each hat switch is a different activity. Pause the video now to make this list, and then come back when you're done. Now let's move to the second column. Guess an average full-time annual salary for someone filling that position. You can guess or just do a search for annual salary and then the position title. We're looking for rough numbers here, not perfection. Pause the video while you list the estimated annual salary for each position. In the third column, use a calculator and divide the annual salary by 2080. That's the average number of work hours in a year. Then write the result. This is the rough hourly wage estimate for each activity. Go ahead and pause the video now to complete this column. Finally, rank the activities by their value per hour, one being the highest. Traveling and wasting time are both worth zero so wait to rank them until the end as they'll be dead last. If you want to make a judgment call and adjust the rankings a bit, that's okay. Ranks one and two are your most valuable activities. Now that you've identified your MVAs, let's build a schedule that maximizes the time you spend in them.

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