The Strategy of Scheduling
Set aside time to create order:
- Do any task that can be finished in less than one minute, without delay.
- Make a list of all the tasks you’d like to accomplish, and once a week, for just one hour, steadily work on these chores.
- Every time you transition from one stage to another, take ten minutes to clean up your space.
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