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There are many ways to categorize your to-do list to help you decide your priorities.
David Allen recommends you categorize by type of activity (calls, online work, offline computer work, errands, etc.). Then, when you are looking for the next thing to do, you can immediately look at the items that you can do in that context. (If you...

In this newsletter I am continuing my campaign to end the battle between reason and emotion. I’d like to address another facet of that battle: the problem of bizarre, intense emotions.
First a story, then the explanation.
Some years ago, I held a small monthly discussion group for an association I belonged to. The discussions had a loyal following, but not among any of the leaders of the organization. Quite the contrary. The leaders created so many difficulties for me...

Last winter I got a surprise. I saw for myself that some people are deeply motivated by a desire for destruction, as opposed to a desire to gain values.
Perhaps I have led a sheltered life, or maybe I accept the people I meet at face value. But I took for granted that everyone I met was trying to make the world a better place. I implicitly accepted the idea that even an irrational action was a distorted...

When you set priorities for the day, you accept a risk. If you do not finish those tasks today, for whatever reason, you will have negative feelings at the end of the day. At a minimum, you will feel sad, just from the failure to meet your own expectations...