Beware the unimportant disguised as urgent. Or the easier, nicer tasks luring you away from what really matters.

You can only do so much. So choose the right things to do, regardless if they are easy or hard, accepting it probably means you won’t get everything done. The truth is you weren’t ever going to, it’s just you accepted it up front and made sure you put first things first.

Give yourself a maximum of X priorities at any given time. Maybe that’s one, maybe five. But no more. The rest go on a bigger list that feeds your priorities and also may just never get done.

Then pick the highest priority, do it, and move to the next. It’s worth checking in briefly after each task is done, to make sure the next one is still the priority.

The part where it’s more likely to fail

When you’re doing the chosen task, do it. Don’t allow any distractions. You don’t need to be in this mode 100% of the time – sometimes you can be dynamic. But when it’s important, you need to focus.

Do this and you’ll make more impact towards meaningful things.