Organising for column one
As things grow, as the project or the team or the complexity grows, the systems you had at the beginning - which probably involved a…
There are two kinds of things to be done, the things you Have To do and the things you Want To do.
Which takes precedence?
The column headed Have To.
These are all the commitments you’ve made whether you liked it or not. The contractual obligations, the stuff you promised because you’re a people pleaser, the things you signed up to when you took the job, the last thing you said before you left the house this morning.
Most of these things … you do to keep other people happy.
With any time you have left, the Want To column.
Discretionary things.
And it’s here that you make the leaps, invent new things, set up today for a better tomorrow.
The biggest difference you can make? Organising for column one so you have maximum time for column two.
Skippy strategy: Deal with column one in order to maximise column two.
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