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Master lists
Capture everything on a Master List and then break it down by monthly, weekly, and daily goals.
- Start by making a master list—a document, app, or piece of paper where every current and future task will be stored.
- Once you have all your tasks together, break them down into monthly, weekly, and daily goals.
- When setting your priorities, try not to get too “task oriented” - you want to make sure you’re prioritizing the more effective work.
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Eisenhower Matrix
The matrix is a simple four-quadrant box that answers that helps you separate “urgent” tasks from “important” ones:
- Urgent and Important: Do these tasks as soon as possible
- Important, but not urgent: Decide when you’ll do these and schedule it
- Ur...
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Learning how to prioritize...
...means getting more out of the limited time you have each day. It’s one of the cornerstones of productivity and once you know how to properly prioritize, it can help with everything from your time management to work life balance.
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Set the tone of the day by “Eating the frog”
Once you’ve prioritized your most important work, it’s time to actually choose how to attack the day.
How you start the day sets the tone for the rest of it. And often, getting a large, hairy, yet important task out of the way first thing gives you momentum, inspiration, and energy to keep ...
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The ABCDE method
Instead of keeping all tasks on a single level of priority, this method offers two or more levels for each task:
- Go through your list and give every task a letter from A to E (A being the highest priority)
- For every task that has an A, give it a numb...
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The sunk cost fallacy
Humans are especially susceptible to the “sunk cost fallacy”—a psychological effect where we feel compelled to continue doing something just because we’ve already put time and effort into it.
But the reality is that no matter what you spend your time doing, you can never get that time ba...
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The Ivy Lee Method
Rank your work by its true priority with the Ivy Lee Method:
- At the end of each work day, write down the 6 most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow.
- Prioritize those 6 items n order of their true importance.
- When you arrive tomorrow, ...
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Warren Buffett’s 2-list strategy
Cut out “good enough” goals with Warren Buffett’s 2-list strategy.
- Write down your top 25 goals: life goals, career goals, education goals, or anything else you want to spend your time on.
- Circle your top 5 goals on that list.
- Finally, any goal you...
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Getting Things Done: the basics
- Capture. Write down everything you need to do.
- Clarify. Break down each task into an actionable next step.
- Organize. Move each of those actionable tasks onto a specific list: E.g: Action: Things to do next, Waiting For: Tasks or projects you’ve delega...
7. Lack of Regular Time Management Review
Review not only your daily and weekly performance but look into monthly and half-year reports to get a birds-eye view of your efforts.
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Lists to Organize Yourself Perfectly
- Vision List - consists of everything you want to experience in life.
- 100 Days List - all the task waiting for you in the next 100 day.
- Personal Sprint Backlog or Bi-Weekly Sprint - tasks categorized by to-do, in progress, and done.
- Daily 3T Lis...
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