Episode 054: How Managing Your To-Do List Can Truly Bring Independence

In this episode, Kim and Mike talk to Todd Tramonte about how you can organize your to-do list so that you can start to do more of what you love doing and less of what you don't.  Key Takeaways!   Todd works for a residential real estate company where they help a couple hundred families buy and sell homes in the DFW, Texas area. They operate in a unique way, like a law firm or an accounting firm would, with high levels of specialization. (1:11)   Master to-do list. He recommends that you get all of the stuff that you are trying to remember out of your head and write it down. This is your master to-do list. (3:19)   Once you discover your superpower or your unique giftedness, you need to be doing this all the time. Try to minimize everything that keeps you in the way of doing what you do best. (4:44)   Irritations, Tolerations, and Fascinations. Make a list of all the things in your business that you hate to do, called your irritations. Then in a different column, right down the things that you can tolerate doing, your tolerations. Finally, right down a list of all the things that fascinate you and bring value to other people when you do them, which are called your fascinations. (5:41)   With your irritations, you need to move them into 1 of 3 categories (9:28) Automate it. Take something that you must do frequently and automate it with technology or something else.  Delegate it. Make someone else do the task. Eliminate it. Take this task and get rid of it if possible, especially if it isn't necessary anymore to your success.    With your tolerations, you need to move these into 1 of the 3 categories from above: automate it, delegate it, or eliminate it. (11:41)   With your fascinations, try and do more and more of these tasks! (12:49)   Revisit these lists quarterly so that you can make sure that your tasks are still in the right columns. (12:56)   Everyone has unique different irritations, tolerations, and fascinations. Don't feel guilty about making someone else do the stuff that you despise, because that might actually be something they love doing.  (14:01)   Todd personally has delegated leading meetings that he had in his toleration/irritation columns to other people who used it as a way to grow as leaders and he got to spend that time doing more fascinating and productive things. (16:28)   To get more information from Todd, you can e-mail him at [email protected], you can check him out on YouTube, or you can go to ToddTramonte.com. (18:56)   Resources Mentioned in this Episode   Todd's Info: [email protected] Todd on YouTube ToddTramonte.com   Website: Morningcoffeemarketer.com   How to get 10,000 Facebook fans in 3 days or less 3daysto10k.com