Do One Thing

Tl;Dr: Pick one important accomplishable task each day, the rest of your time will fill up

I’ve recently had a bit more time on my hands. While working, it’s easy to imagine that with more time, more of the things that you think about doing will get done everyday. It can be frustrating to find out that this is not so. After having struggled with frustration for many weeks about feeling like I was not getting enough finished, I talked to a friend of mine who had this wisdom.

Do one thing everyday.

Seems pretty straightforward, easy to follow. Easy to remember advice. I’ve been thinking about this for a couple weeks now and there is no day on which I have only done one thing, but thinking this way has given me a little bit more leeway to satisfyingly complete one big thing while also dealing with the two dozen little things that happen to come up everyday. This seems like a much more sustainable way of thinking about the world of things to do.