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- Because the environment that you're in

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may not be 100% conducive to
really getting sustained effort

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in on tasks, you wanna
structure your agenda,

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your to-do list, a little bit.

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And here's a suggestion.

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I want you to take a sheet
of paper and divide into six.

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So basically put it down,
just split it in half

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the long way down and then
split it into thirds across.

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And what you wanna do on
the two sides of the page

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going down are to divide
your tasks into the ones

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that require your best
work self and the ones

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that don't necessarily
require 110% effort.

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And then in those three
columns for, the three rows

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rather that you've
divided your sheet into,

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you wanna think about the timeframe.

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So think about those tasks
that you can do very quickly.

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You know, answering a quick
email or filling out an invoice

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or something that really
can be done very quickly,

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some things that might require
maybe 15 minutes of effort,

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and then those things that
really are gonna require

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some sustained effort.

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And now I want you to
divide that to-do list

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into all of those sections.

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And the reason for that is, you know,

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when you're in the
normal work environment,

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you don't really need to go
through that level of detail

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in order to get things
done because you're in

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your normal work routine.

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You have a groove.

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But in the work from home environment,

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things can get disrupted.

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And so by organizing the list in that way,

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if you find yourself
thinking, "You know what,

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"I've got five free minutes right now,"

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you can actually quickly
go to that to-do list

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and pull something off that
where you need five minutes

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to take care of it and also
have a list of those things

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that require more time
so that if you magically

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find yourself feeling
completely raring to go

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and you've got a half hour
that you can immediately

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dive into something that's gonna require

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more sustained effort.

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Without that to-do list, you'll
end up wasting a lot of time

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thinking to yourself, "What
is it that I need to do next?"

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Now, you can put that on a
sheet of paper on your desk

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but actually if you can
post that up on the wall

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so that you can just look up at it

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and have a consistent
place to look for it,

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that's even better
because one of the things

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about the work environment is
you wanna be able to create

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a certain number of
habits that will support

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your productivity and again, making use

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of that spatial ability
that we talked about.

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If you can look at a
particular point in the room,

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a particular position,
all the time and know

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that that's the place that you need to go

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in order to figure out what to do next,

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it's just gonna make
it a lot easier for you

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to get into the groove
of doing the next thing

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that you need to do.

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(water flowing)