Document your tasks

After you start working on a frog, continue working on it until you can take it off of your to-do list.

To do this effectively, you'll need to make sure you have tasks that are small enough to complete in one sitting. Also, make sure you have time blocked to work on your task.

We usually have more tasks on our to-do list than we ever can complete. This causes us to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of doing the easiest and most urgent tasks first and putting off the harder ones that are most important.

Instead of working...

When you put all the possible working schedules, habits and systems on a graph, the graph will show all your productive possibilities.

• If we're below the frontier, we can make more improvements without facing trade-offs. We might choose to work less while keeping ou...