Smaller Lists...?

David Round
Smaller Lists...?
A handwritten page inside an open notebook

Walking to the office one day, I was thinking about everything I needed to get done over the coming weeks and months, and I could feel my stress levels rising.

And then I stopped (stressing, not walking) by reminding myself that the list had hundreds of hours of work on it, and I had maybe 7 hours available that day, so stressing about it was daft, and I’d just do what I could in the time I had, and call that a win.

None of us can buy more time, so the alternatives are smaller lists, or an acceptance that the bigger the list, the longer it’s going to take to get done…

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