I was browsing through a search
of “best productivity advice” and found something I’d never seen before.
A “leadership consultant” named Robin Sharma advises: “Write a Stop Doing List. Every productive person
obsessively sets To Do Lists. But those who play at world-class also record
what they commit to stop doing. Steve Jobs said that what made Apple Apple was
not so much what they chose to build but all the projects they chose to
ignore.”
This makes a lot of sense. We know
that one of the key words to leading a productive, successful life is No. We
have to be able to say no and keep control of our own time and resources. And
we also have moments where we learn a big lesson and think “I’m never going to
do that again.” And so maintaining and reviewing a list of those things you
know not to do again sounds really smart. It’s a way to overcome the habit
energy that keeps us doing things we know we ought not be doing.
I’m going to try this. Maybe you will
too?
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