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Lesson 2

Identify what to focus on to get results

To effectively shift 5 or more hours of busywork to impactful work, you need to have an idea of what you do best, and how that drives results.

understand what you do best

identify what your highest priorities are

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Part 1 - Understanding what you do best so you can do it more often

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Skills

Goals: Identify your top skills and abilities

Time: 5 Minutes

Activity:

Write down your skills

Write down your top skills and the skills you are learning to reach your goals.

Skills

Unique Talent(s)

Write down any unique talents you have, if any.

Core Passions

Write down your biggest passions, especially passions related to your work.

Driving Purpose

Now, write down your driving purpose

My driving purpose is ..

Defining Your Zone of Genius

Goals:

Time: 5 Minutes

Activity:

Reference your top skills, core passions, unique talents, and driving purpose to write out your personal zone of genius, the sweet spot where your innate talents, passions, and purpose align.

I’m at my very best when I use (skill(s) , unique talent(s) to do X, which is a core passion of mine that connects to my driving purpose

How will working from your zone of genius more often move your goals forward?

Part 2 - Identifying Your Highest Priorities

Goals: Connect what you do best, your zone of genius, to your priorities and the activities that are most important to have on your calendar each week. Activities that represent “impactful work” to you.

Time: 5 Minutes

Activity:

Brainstorm the priority activities you perform within your business or organization that tap into your highest skills and passions and produce the best results.

Examples

creating partnerships to expand biz/org capacity

Sales prospecting and relationship building with your top customers/donors

Speaking and being the face of the biz/org

Creating inspirational marketing and messaging content

Helpful Reminders for this Section:

Pareto’s Law - Remember, 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts

Zone of Genius - Dedicate time to your Z.O.G., The sweet spot where your innate talents, passions, and purpose align. What you are exceptionally good at.

Consider someone in your field or industry you admire... What would you say is the skill and activity their uniquely gifted at doing?Lesson Goals

Priority Activities

List out the priority activities that will help you shift 5+ hours of busy work to impactful work each week.

Tip

Are the activities you listed specific enough for you to act on?

If they are too general, rewrite them until they become actionable.

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