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Your Inbox Is a List of Other People’s Priorities
I used to start every day by opening email, which is to say I started every day by asking strangers what I should do with it. Changing that one habit gave me back my mornings.
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Thirty Minutes on Sunday Decides the Week
Monday morning is the worst time to decide what the week is for. By then it’s already deciding for you. Half an hour on Sunday, with the calendar open, changes what Monday feels like.
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The One-Page Life Plan
I’ve written forty-page plans that nobody read, including me. The one that’s actually steered my life fits on one side of paper and lives in my wallet.
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Audit Your Calendar, Not Your Intentions
Ask anyone their priorities and they’ll tell you family, health, growth. Look at their last two weeks and you’ll see a different list. The calendar doesn’t lie, which is why we avoid it.
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The Someday List Is Where Dreams Go to Die Quietly
Everyone has one. The trip, the course, the business, the call you’ll make when things calm down. Things don’t calm down. Here’s what to do with the list instead.
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The Five-Year Test for Any Decision
One question has saved me from more bad choices than any amount of pros-and-cons lists. It takes ten seconds, and it works because it moves you out of the room you’re standing in.
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The Difference Between Being Busy and Being Successful
Busy is a feeling. Successful is a result. Most people have confused the two for so long they can’t tell them apart anymore. Here’s how.
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The Reality Check: Are You Working, or Working on Feeling Productive?
A large share of what feels like work is activity designed to produce the sensation of progress. Here is how to tell the two apart, honestly, today.
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The Anti-Goal: What You Refuse to Become
Knowing what you want is useful. Knowing what you refuse to become is more so, because it filters every decision before ambition can distort it.
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The Second Hour: Where Most Work Days Are Actually Lost
The first hour is usually fine. It is the second hour, when the inbox opens and the day’s intention quietly dissolves, that decides whether anything important happens.