You’re staring at your to-do list.
35 items.
Ugh.
So you decide to make your plan for the week. You’re confident. You decide you’re going to check off 20 tasks on your to-do list.
Monday rolls around and you’re in go mode. This is your time.
You’re focused. Productive. In control.
The week goes by and Friday arrives. It’s time to take stock.
You’ve done great work.
You’ve completed 22 tasks on your to-do list. Well done, you!
You look at your to-do list and see you now have 43 tasks.
Wait…
What?
You’ve completed more than half of the tasks on your list but somehow you have more items than you started with.
What gives?
You’ve worked your ass off this week, put in the hours. You’re tired and all you’ve got to show is a longer task list.
Sounds familiar?
I know I’ve been there.
Every time a new task comes in, you put it on your to-do list.
The problem is you’re always putting more in than you’re taking out.
It’s like having a full box. And then you take a few things out. But you put a lot more back in the box.
It doesn’t work. You can’t close the box now. And you can’t have more boxes.
This is the problem with time management.
To make it work you have to take more out than what you’re putting in. So your box becomes emptier every week.
And the only way to do that is to understand that time management is really trade-off management.
I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow.
P.S.
In the next few days, I’ll open the doors to my new program so you can finally get control over your time.
I’ll only have 3 spots available.
If you want to know the details before anyone else reply "details" and I’ll send them to you right now.
Dan