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If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing else seems urgent or important. The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates — or doing more — it’s defining the few things that can really fundamentally change your life.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting.
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If the desired outcome is defined clearly with a stated objective and agenda listing topics/questions to cover, no meeting or call should last more than 30 minutes.
Request them in advance so you can best prepare and make good use of the time together.
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When people ask you personally or via email something that you are struggling to decline, use templates. Templates are standard response you use to everyone. With the use of these, you refuse them politely without offending them. Also, it saves you time and there's less emotional pressure compared to writing a decline every time.
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For you, on the other hand, the harder it is...