The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

by Tommy Baker

Step 1: Deletion Look at everything you wrote down and delete what doesn’t serve your big rock. There’s always a handful of activities we simply need to delete, and here’s your chance. Step 2: Automation Identify which things on your list can be automated. What are you doing right now that can be done using software or systems? Step 3: Delegation What initiatives, tasks, or projects are important yet can be delegated? Whether or not you have a team, we now have 5 billion people online. Finding cheap resources to clear things off your plate is easy. Identify what can be delegated right now. Step 4: Weekly Rocks If you’ve done the above correctly, you should be left with the core essentials. This is the high-level, zone-of-genius type work only you can do. If that’s not the case and you still have fluff here, go back through Steps 1, 2, and 3 one more time. Now you’re going to look at what’s left and rank them in order of importance, with 1 being the highest, and 3 being the lowest. Work your way down. You may have multiple 1s, and that’s totally fine.