To increase your leverage, ask yourself before any activity:

• How could I complete this task in a fraction of the time to the same standard? (decrease time cost)
• What is the expected (confidence x ROI) impact of this task? (increase value)
• What else could I be doing that's higher leverage? (opportunity cost)

To identify your highest leverage task, ask:

If I could only do one thing for the rest of the week that would have the greatest impact, what would it be?

•   Are the results worth a multiple of time and energy invested?
•   How many future hours of work am I removing by completing/automating/delegating this task?
•   Does this solve a problem permanently?
•   Does this get more work done?

If I could do one more thing, what would it be?

If I could do one more thing, what would it be?

High-leverage activities:

• Outsized impact relative to time invested
• Reduce future time investment required to sustain something
• Use unique abilities
• Act as "energy multipliers"
• Have cascading influence to many people
• Remove bottlenecks in a system to increase throughput
• Remove excess from a system to increase throughput
• Have cascading influence beyond one area (global impact, not local)
• Focus on unique creation vs generic completion
• Impact individual people for the rest of their life
  

Low-leverage activities:

• Anyone can do them
• Equal or less output compared to input
• Provide services for a direct fee
• Repetitive and automatable
• Limited impact beyond scope (localised impact rather than global)
• Require little focus or concentration