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Step 3: Eliminate the time-wasters

Step 3: Eliminate the time-wasters

Know where your time goes. Identify the critical tasks from the trivial tasks in your life. And cut the trivial, time-wasting, tasks.

If you want to be a super-effective person, you regularly keep a log. You don’t have to keep a log for 365 days a year. Instead, do two stretches of two-three weeks a year. That’s enough to keep track of your time and identify new time-wasterit forces you to think about your daily routine.

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