Case in point: recently I realized I'd made three separate reminders to myself to order new bags for the vacuum cleaner. There's no way that didn't use up as much time and effort as just ordering the bags.
Organizing by actionability counteracts our tendency to constantly procrastinate and postpone our aspirations to some far-off future. PARA pulls these distant dreams into the here and now, by helping us see that we already have a lot of the information we need to get started.
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As you work through tasks, ask yourself: Do I really need to be optimizing here, or is the best thing to do simply to eliminate it completely? Does this activity build toward my goals, satisfy my values, or fit with my ideal vision of myself? Even if I need to tackle this task now, do I need to tackle all of it now? What part of this task is truly
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