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Eliminate All But the Absolute Essential Tasks : zen habits
Figure out the most important tasks that you’d like to accomplish over the week. Those are your Big Rocks.
Put them in your schedule, first thing in the day, on different days of the upcoming week. Make those the most important tasks each day, and do them first.
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It means deciding not to do things you'd really like to do. It also means deciding what's the most important task even when everything on your list feels crucial.
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To-dos arrive from a variety of sources. Your boss sends you an email, you get a Slack message from IT, a bill arrives in the mail, or a coworker asks for a favor in the hallway.
In order to prioritize your task list efficiently, you need a master to-do list that contains all of the tasks you need to prioritize and complete from all of those sources.
Go through your list, review each task, and decide what you want to do with it. You have 4 options: