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To-do lists and calendars
Once you write down the tasks you need to perform, you then have to clear space in your day to put some of those tasks onto your calendar.
This calendar maintenance is itself a useful exercise for fighting the tide of interruptions you’re always facing. It pulls your brain out of a reactive mode and forces you to think about the long term.
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Planning your goals
Planning turns abstract goals into concrete work.
For most people, the challenge is making sure we get the big-picture projects done, those that make work fulfilling. And it's hard to achieve them without breaking them into a coherent set of concrete actions you can take on a daily, ...
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Writing helps your memory
When you take notes, you need to filter external information, summarize it in your head, and then write it down.
Your brain decides which pieces of information to hang onto for later, partly as a result of how much work you do to them upfront–so the more you mentally manipulate a pie...
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Limiting the space you have to write your notes on is a way of filtering through the massive amounts of information you must process.
It forces your brain to be selective and prioritize information.
To-Do Lists
Your to-do list can be a tool that guides you through your work, or it can be a big fat pillar of undone time bombs taunting you and your unproductive inadequacy.
If the instructions are clear, specific, and easily carried out, you're golden. If not, you'll get undesirable results, s...
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Problem
- To-do lists should be called painful wish lists. A series of tasks you hope to accomplish, without a specific plan.
Solutions
- Schedule a chunk of time for everything that is important to you; this is called “time...
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