Even if it goes against the most popular time management approaches, consider starting your day with working on tasks that are energy-sucking.
Take advantage of your most productive time of the day and force yourself to delegate it, delete it, or complete it. Once all of these open loops are closed, move on to the most important tasks of the day.
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"Open loops" are all those tasks that you've had on your mind for weeks, months or even years that are still not completed. They quietly drain a lot of energy out of you by taking up space in your subconscious.
Take an hour, day, or week to close the loop and do that thing.
Busy time doesn’t bring you closer to your goals, making you feel anxious and unsettled - maximize the productive time.
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Open loops act as a drag on your attention. It pops up at the wrong time, or leave you worried that there's something you're forgetting.
If you store them somewhere else, then your brain can stop struggling to keep them, and you'll find yourself more focus...
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