Stephen Covey’s Four Quadrants of Time Management matrix is rightly famous for helping people in all industries and fields increase their productivity through prioritizing. Earlier we discussed about how they can also help you identify the root causes of some of the problems you routinely face. You might see that a lot of the items in Quadrant 2 can be solved by working with an outsource firm.
Maybe the suggestion that bringing on some extra help wasn’t exactly an “Aha!” moment for you. It’s not exactly like outsourcing hasn’t ever come up as a way to save time before. And maybe you’re down with the idea—let’s outsource!
However, as Morpheus noted in The Matrix movie: 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵.
Intellectually, you might fully grasp that outsourcing could help you get out from under the mountain of your daily tasks so you can devote your attention to work that grows your business. But walking that path? That’s a different matter.
Sometimes, what’s keeping you rooted to the spot is you’re stuck in The Matrix of the Urgent and Important (or even Not Important) to get to the Important but Not Urgent. It’s not too hard to get moving again, though, if you find the right outsource partner.
At Assurent Advisors our teams are onboarded, trained, and ready to go the minute you say the word. Really—that’s about what you need: a minute. After all, the whole point of outsourcing is to make things easy