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Key takeaways from Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.

A step-by-step guide to pare down your to-do list.
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When you stop doing the things that make you feel busy but aren’t getting you results, then you end up with more than enough time for what matters.
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Many people run their entire lives on a faulty operating system. It’s called the to-do list. 
In this article, I explain why to-do lists are not just ineffective for getting important work done, but also constantly make us feel bad. Instead, we should be using schedules.
To-do lists tends to lead us to work on urgent or easy tasks rather than important work.
A task you put on a to-do-list can eat up way more time than anticipated. A task you put on your schedule will only get as much time as you're willing to allocate to it beforehand.
Planning in advance how you intend to spend your time is the only way to know the difference between traction (what you said you would do) and distraction (anything else).
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