Start with the job you dread on Monday mornings. Here's how to pick it, describe it and trust the result.
The best first errand is small, regular and boring. If you dread it on a Monday morning, it's a good candidate.
Pick something you do every week
Weekly reports, follow-up emails after calls and moving bugs from the inbox into your tracker are all ideal. They repeat, so you can judge the result against what you'd have done.
Describe it like a brief
Write the errand the way you'd brief a new colleague: what to do, where to find things, where the result goes and when. Relay turns it into a plan you can check before anything runs.
“The clearer the brief, the less you'll edit the result.”
Keep approvals on for a month
Review every result for the first few weeks. Once you stop finding things to change, let that errand run on its own.
- Small, regular and boring
- Written like a brief
- Reviewed until you stop editing
