Are you effective or efficient?

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task in the most economical way.

Are you effective every day or efficient?

Take the example of a washing machine - if it's efficient, it will use less water, less detergent, finish washing in less time and generally be more economical to run. But we need the machine to be effective too; it has to wash the clothes well, otherwise, we'll have to put them back in for another cycle, which then reduces the efficiency too.

Apply the same thought process to work - are you the sort of person who checks their email 30 times a day, clicking the 'send/receive' button? Do you have an elaborate 'folder system' for your emails, to get them out of the way and into different piles to sort through later? If so, do you think this is efficient or effective?

Being effective will get you to where you need to be. It will get you home earlier in the long run, it'll make you feel satisfied at the end of the day, it'll get you results and it will make people notice you.

Have a think about it today, Busy Girl, maybe simply checking your mails 4 times a day and responding to the most important ones, delegating the appropriate and binning the ridiculous would make more sense?

Have a great one, lots of love, Eva x

Busy Girls Guide, Manchester & Cheshire