How to Get Everything Done by Doing 1 Thing
Published: Sun, 04/15/12
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How to Get Everything Done by Doing 1 Thing By Craig Jarrow How do you eat an elephant? How do you move a mountain? How you do begin a journey of 1000 miles? The answers are all the same... you do it bit by bit... One bite at a time. One spoonful of dirt at a time. With a single step. You cannot do the whole thing at once. The same is true of life. You cannot do everything at once. But, it is through incremental progress that success is achieved. How do you get everything done? The answer to this question is the same too. You get it all done... one piece at a time. If you keep your todo list visible, you are aware that you have many things to do. Very few us ever get our lists to zero. (If you do...I might reason you are not living up to your potential...) So how do you get it all done? You cannot do your whole todo list at once. You have to chip away at it. Effective productivity is not done in one fell swoop. Yes, there are bursts of rapid productivity. However, small incremental steps is how life gets done. To get everything done, you have to start with one item. The 1 thing you weren't going to do today We all have things that sit on our todo list for days. Weeks. Months in cases. Some of these items may turn out to be things we never really needed to do in the first place. That is good, we can cross those off. But, there are other items that have to be done and will not go away. Leaving tasks undone can create more work for us and cause more life friction and stress. Ever try to do your taxes at the last moment? Or do a project the day before it is due? The strategy is to pick one thing you were not going to do today. And make that item a top priority today. Maybe it is to track down the one tax document that you know you will need before mid-April. Maybe it is start the research on a project you have been putting off. Or perhaps that expense report that is rotting on your desk. Do it today. It is not an option. How to get that 1 thing done OK, so we have spotlighted one thing that has not been getting done and we are committing to doing it today. Here are some tactics to ensure success:
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