Writing a plan for the day the night before. Learned this from Jocko Willink.
It gets things out of your head and onto paper.
There’s nothing like the feeling of getting started in the morning, seated at your computer, and being completely unsure of what to work on.
I feel like my life is chaos.
So many things I need to work on. So many more things I want to work on. Then there’s all the shit that I don’t want to work on but I have to do/deal with and this list only seems to grow as I get older.
The plan the night before will help identify what is most important so that I can start there in the morning and focus on those key items throughout the day, particularly as new issues pop up, requests from colleagues, fires to put out, etc.
But another thing to try to hone for which I don’t have an answer quite yet is the skill of triaging. There may be things on my To Do list that I’ll simply never get to. Definitely things on my ‘To Read’ list.
It’s an art trying to see a whole pile of stuff that you want to do and figuring out how to do the most important / impactful stuff.
Our brains want us to do the easiest things. These are usually not the most impactful.
I guess I could use a little more Eisenhower’s urgent/important principal matrix in my life. I’ll add it to the To Do list.
