“The standard 1040 form now comes with an instruction booklet that is 172 pages long. Each year, Americans spend 6.1 billion hours preparing their taxes. That is the equivalent of 3 million people working full time. By simplifying the code, we can free people to work on more productive pursuits — growing the economy, generating income and helping to close the deficit”  – USA Today 1/26/11

If we apply Lean principles and cut out half the waste (definitely achievable), we would cut 3 billion hours of waste out of Americans’ time, giving us more time to spend with families, and be more productive on value-added activities.

How many hours do YOU spend preparing your taxes?

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Priority Management is critical. Time Blocking is a great tool taught to me by Building Champions. This article in Fast Company simply reinforces the use of that tool.

“If you don’t manage your priorities and time, everyone and everything else will!” – Coach Raymond Gleason

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Better have good writing, though. Technology continues to change SO rapidly. Remember when it was cool to have a PALM (even before it was a Palm phone!)?