Too busy driving to refuel
How the DRY principle helps you create systems for daily ops.
This is the case with a lot of us. We are too busy making things happen instead of making systems that make things happen on their own.
I know you know, so let’s see how to make the time for this?
For that, let’s take a look at how you are doing things now. When something goes wrong, or is not upto mark, you jump in & give clearer instructions. Or you may go ballistic on someone, in hopes of getting them to understand. Third scenario is even you are not sure what to do. Another case is that your way turned out to be a mistake. Maybe, there’s simply too much on the plate.
In all these cases, the common thing is the effort to communicate the exact steps to take and the reasoning behind it.
Just for that, you are spending much more time explaining yourself again and again. Instead, just write it down. Or whatever other method works. Maybe a voice note or a video.
These can be used next time such a situation happens. It will give you a way to say the same things again without wasting more time.
That is the beginning of systems, because, once you have it recorded, you can use all the saved up time to create a way where the reasoning is delivered and made clear before the activity has to happen.
The best ‘side effect’ is that pretty quickly, you will arrive at a bunch of instructions and the reasoning for 80 to 90% of situations. These are now available to actually improve upon and orient people with.
Best of luck!