Invest time in activities today so that you’ll have more time to accomplish even more tomrorow.
As someone with little success in keeping to resolutions, breaking down my goals as manageable projects works better. Rather than launching a number of projects at once, I figured I’d start with one that gives a lot in return — cleaning up my inbox.
As a result, I:
- reached out to people I haven’t spoken with in a while
- ended up reverse procrastinating by painting my bedroom for a screen break
- cleared up 22,000+ messages in four weeks
How did any of this help me create time? I’m:
- reconnecting with people who energize me
- directing this renewed energy to work on other projects
- finding what I need more quickly instead of waddling through a sea of emails
- processing fewer emails and receiving more relevant emails
- feeling less stress over the sheer numbers (Google has a way to hide those numbers for a reason)
Time has value, so invest in it. The biggest dividends I’ve seen so far come from eliminating. It’s probably why we’re attracted to Marie Kondo’s methodology. Eliminate is also the first of five strategies in Rory Vaden‘s book Procrastinate on Purpose:
Just think for a moment about all of the stuff that you’re doing that you don’t need to be doing. And the real power here is that you are looking for things you can just stop doing. No explanation. No warning. No ramp-down time. No apology. What are the things that we can just stop?”
—Rory Vaden
What can you do today to make the future better for you?
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