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If you have done something and it's not on your to-do list, add that badboy on there and check it off.

If you have a task, break it into sub tasks, that way you can check off subgoals as you go.

For me, the trick to having an actually productive day is ensuring I feel some initial momentum.

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Secrets of Success

• Live like every day is your last
• Always have a plan for the future
• People are creatures of habit
• Be spontaneous
• You comes before anything
• Everyone watches out for each other

I learned this trick in one of my first ever high responsibility jobs and it's stuck for me pretty well.

First step: fuck off with the endless to-do list. You'll have 80 things on that list with no sense of priority or timings and you'll always feel overwhelmed and unproductive.

Instead, identify 10 of those things you feel need to be addressed first. Separate them into 4 categories, in this order:

• urgent and important
• important but not urgent
• urgent but not important
• not important and not urgent

There you go, there's your true priority list. It probably looks a lot different than what you thought was your priority list, because we have a tendency to focus on the loudest and easiest things and not what really matters (someone screaming at you, something you know you can do in 5 minutes, etc). But now with this new order, you'll notice those "backburner" issues that you never address end up at the top of the list now.

Now, identify maximum 5 of those things. Put them in order. Now schedule them, literally into your day. Approximate the time, give yourself space.

At the end of the day, if you tick off 3 of your most important issues, you'll feel HEAPS more productive than if you did a couple of the most pointless but easy tasks from your endless to-do list.

It's actually pretty amazing because you'll go from making hundreds of emails and phone calls in a day and feeling stressed to just doing the 2 or 3 calls that matter and feeling accomplished.

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