Doing Just One Thing...

If you wrote twenty things on your To Do List tomorrow and did twelve, would you feel more productive than if you had written one thing and done it ? “It depends”, you would say, “on whether that one thing was more important than the other twelve”. And that’s true - if that one thing moved us a good step closer to achieving our biggest goal, and the twelve things meant that we’d tidied our desk and replied to an e-mail that the sender had forgotten they’d even sent, doing that one thing would be a much better use of the day.

So why, when we write out our To Do Lists each morning, do we baulk at the idea of writing down just one thing…?