Don Wetmore spends most of his workweek giving seminars on time management. Whatever’s left over goes toward managing his own time.
Every six months, he makes a log of his activities, grading them from A to D. He pares away time-suckers that score less than a B. (People usually spend about 80 percent on C’s and D’s, he says.)
Though he’s no “type-A freako,” Wetmore is vigilant about inefficiency at home. He recently discovered, for example, that family members were all making separate trips to the dry cleaners. The solution: Assign the task to one person. He has “systematized” other chores too.
He is a big believer in the ultimate time-saver: delegating.
He hires a college student for nine hours a week (at $7 an hour) to clean and gas up the car, and run other errands.
