I don’t have a 'job'

Visualize your workflow. Whether this is literally your occupation or some other “work” (writing your novel, exercising), put it up on a board so you see it visually, step by step. Use different colors, symbols, or columns to sort the stages of your process. Remember, the more you can put out there, the less you have to worry about in here. Avoid w

find deep insights, look closely into the inner workings of how you manage your daily work, from how you manage email and your calendar, to how you decide what to work on next.

No matter how much I organize,

I always find something else to tweak.

To optimize.

To tidy up.

To structure.

And I wonder—how much of this is just busy work?

And if I didn’t do it?

Well, I could literally walk away from all of this—my memory-keeping, journaling, note-taking, organizing—and nobody would be any the wiser. Nobody would care.

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Everyone needs to find their own system. But you do need to prioritize your tasks, manage and organize your thoughts, and create a predictable schedule for your team to access those thoughts. And then you need to take a break.