Only Do Nine Things
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Only Do Nine Things
PRINCIPLE #1: DO FEWER THINGS Strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare. Leverage this reduced load to more fully embrace and advance the small number of projects that matter most.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
3-3-3 Method - Fork My Brain
If not, allow me to introduce the Rule of 3: at the start of each day, choose the three things you want to have accomplished by day’s end. While a to-do list is useful to capture the minutiae of the day, these three intention slots should be reserved for your most important daily tasks.
Chris Bailey • Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
Leo Babauta’s brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year. Break that into smaller projects, and every day, find three tasks to accomplish that will help you complete a project. And do only that during your working hours.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The 3-3-3 Method is as follows:
Spend 3 hours on your most important thing.
Complete 3 shorter tasks you've been avoiding.
Work on 3 maintenance activities to keep life in order.
The idea is that if you execute and check off these three major boxes, you've had a good day. It removes the pressure of "never enough" thinking whereby ambitious pe... See more
IDEA2 - LNO framework - a framework to use on an endless to do list , with a perfectionist mindset, to reduce stress and overwhelm. Tasks are not equal. however, we treat them the same if we are ambitious.