To find your work’s sweet spot, start by setting an arbitrary WIP limit, let’s say no more than three tasks. Add this number to your DOING column.

You’ll likely also have meetings to attend, emails to answer, and administrative nonsense to subdue (we’ll talk more about these smaller tasks in the upcoming proposition about containing the small). But when it comes to expending efforts on important, bigger initiatives, stay focused on just one target per day.

simple formula for implementing the ONE Thing and achieving extraordinary results: purpose, priority, and productivity.

As busy professionals we all collect a very large number of near-term responsibilities and tasks. In a busy office we tend to focus first on immediate emergencies. Next, we focus on urgent things due soon, and then on slightly less urgent things that are due a little farther out, and so on. In the midst of that are meetings, interruptions, and dive