From the course: Efficient Time Management
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Try doing it tomorrow
From the course: Efficient Time Management
Try doing it tomorrow
- David Allen has a two-minute rule. If you can do it in two minutes, then do it. It'll take you almost as long to write it on your jobs to-do list so you may as well just do it. Of course, you might spend forever just doing small stuff but if your life is an endless stream of small stuff you also need to think about why that is and spend a bit of quality time getting to the bottom of it. Maybe you need better systems or better trained people or you need to get better at delegating. Why would anyone not do the two-minute job straightaway? Well procrastination, I guess. Maybe it's something small but unpleasant and you might think, "No, I'll do that later," but ideally you'd be a do-it-now person and just get rid of it. So that all makes sense, I think. But now I just want to confuse you slightly with another really interesting idea called do-it-tomorrow. When I first heard of this, I thought it sounded like a comedy management book for procrastinators, but actually it's a genuinely…
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