Your to-do list might have plenty of items on them. Where do you begin? Angel investor Tim Ferriss suggests making a list of tasks that make you most anxious or uncomfortable:
3) Write down the 3-5 things—and no more—that are making you most anxious or uncomfortable. They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and so on. Most important usually = most uncomfortable, with some chance of rejection or conflict.

4) For each item, ask yourself:

-“If this were the only thing I accomplished today, would I be satisfied with my day?”

-“Will moving this forward make all the other to-do’s unimportant or easier to knock off later?”

5) Look only at the items you’ve answered “yes” to for at least one of these questions.

6) Block out at 2-3 hours to focus on ONE of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow.P
This narrows down your focus instead of trying to put out too many flames at once. Ferris emphasizes that you should allocate one single block of time, not a collection of short bursts to tackle this ‘anxious item’.
Try this out and see if it works for you.

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