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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
An avoided task charges you rent even on the days nothing goes wrong. The low hum of hoping nobody asks is part of what it costs.
When we weigh up leaving something undone, we usually count only the visible consequences, the letter that might arrive or the person who might…
A task you dislike needs a time and a place, not a place on the list. Tuesday at ten, at the kitchen table, is a plan. Soon is not.
Left in open competition, the dull job loses to everything more urgent and everything more interesting, every single day, and that is not a fault in…
Look at what you are actually working for this week. If every item is there to stop someone being cross or something going wrong, you are running on avoidance, and it is exhausting.
Avoidance does get things done, but only at the last moment and only with dread attached, and it leaves behind nothing you wanted. Take one thing off…
Promise yourself twenty minutes, or one podcast episode, rather than a finished result. Then the end is guaranteed however badly it goes.
Open ended unpleasant jobs are hard to walk into because you cannot see the far edge of them. A timer gives you one. Twenty minutes of receipts on…
Sitting exactly halfway between two options is its own kind of exhausting, and it produces nothing. If you have been weighing something for weeks, the weighing has quietly become the activity.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Give it a deadline and a method. One more week, the three things that matter most, and then you choose, knowing the choice will be imperfect. If you…