One Thing

Benefit: Identify high return actions
Prerequisites: Probability, Pareto Principle, Second Order Effect

Description

Not all items on your to-do list are created equal, so in order to make the biggest leaps in the shortest amount of time, you’d be best off ruthlessly prioritizing them. Identifying the single most important task and just doing that will yield greater results rather than trying to finish random tasks in the TODO list.

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Practice

1. Write an action/event/location you will interact with.
2. Write down the ONE thing you can do, such that by doing it everything else will become easier or unnecessary?

Repeat this 4 times.

Example-1

One thing I can do, such that by doing it everything else will become easier or unnecessary?

• Work: Figure out if we should use freestar.io as monetization
• Event: Meet as many people as possible
• Today: Wake up early and meditate
• Breakdance: Flexibility (I will get injured less, it will be easier for me to do all the moves)

Example-2

One thing I can do, such that by doing it everything else will become easier or unnecessary?

• Sport: Wrist strength (injured my wrists)
• Meeting: Understand clearly what the other side needs
• General: Buy a new MacBook cable (tired of nudging it every minute)
• Instagram: Mute everyone uninteresting

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