It's Time to Insource

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external individual or business to handle business processes on your behalf. This practice gives small and medium business access to skills and services they may otherwise find hard to utilise, either due to lack or resources, lack of manpower or both.

Hands up who would love more time in their day?

Lots of you. I know. But, if you want more time, you can’t just flick a switch. You actually have to ‘manage’ your time smarter.

I have previously blogged here about Outsourcing. In today's blog I want to talk about ‘Insoucing’.

It’s time to insource the ‘small stuff’. Your house is a home and not a hotel. Write a list of all the ‘small stuff’ you do for your kids and/or partner on a daily basis, pin it to the fridge and make everyone aware that they are now responsible for their own ‘small stuff’.

I don’t want to hear you say “It’s easier if I do it myself. It only takes five minutes’. WRONG! I have conducted my own little time based experiment on the ‘small stuff’. I timed six basic tasks I was doing on a daily basis for my kids, including picking up wet towels; making the beds; sorting the dirty clothes from the clean clothes; and tidying away the ipods, ipads, shoes, books and loom bands. You get the drift. Then I added up how long it took me to do these tasks each day, and I multiplied that across a year.

There was no ‘just 5 minutes’ about it! Doing the ‘small stuff’ each day was costing me 209 hours of my life a year!

You want more time back? Insource. Tonight. Really.