Signal Vs Noise in Time Management

• Signal: Top 3-5 things that you MUST focus on and get done today.

  • Write these down at beginning of the day.

• Noise: Everything else.

Questions

• What do you really want to do that you are saying NO to?

  • As in what sacrifice of ideas are you making to stay focused on signal - (today’s focus tasks).

Practice

• Slot personal tooling investments to the weekend.

• Slot distraction tasks for later processing (which will likely not be processed).

• AVOID: jumping into side tasks when Signal task gets tough.

• DON’T lie to Yourself: don’t say this tool will take few minutes.

  • Instead: slot the idea for later processing, the high level idea can actually be written down in few minutes.

Remember

• By investing time towards B you TAKE time away from A.

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Related

Related

• life-is-mostly-a-zero-sum-game

• Laser focus on what you control

• ira-important-relevant-actionable

References

References

References

• YT video has some Steve Job related clips at beginning

~ One of the things he Steve-Jobs] would say is how many things you have said NO to? What Focus means is saying NO to something that you think is a phenomenal idea BUT you say NO to it because you are focusing on something else. - YT: Jony Ive