Prompts · Personal task management
Work out what to do when the list will never be finished
your to-do list grows faster than you clear it, you've tried every way of prioritizing, and you end each week feeling behind.
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Oliver Burkeman · 2021
Supplies the reframe: the list can't be finished, so choose what to neglect. Work from a closed list of about ten, and cap work in progress.
Brian Tracy · 2017
Supplies the opposing method: ABCDE every item, never do a B while an A is undone, and eat the ugliest frog first. Useful as the approach the user has probably already tried.
The prompt
My situation: [describe roughly how many items are on your list, where they come from, what you've tried, and how the week usually ends]
Use Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (2021) and Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy (2017) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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