The Power of Doing Less: Why Time Management Courses Don't Work And How To Spend Your Precious Life On The Things That Really Matter

Chapter 3

YOU WILL NEVER GET EVERYTHING DONE

There is a solution to the problem described in Chapter 1. And it's not time management courses or books. Instead, it comes with the realization of a simple but profoundly important fact.

You will never get everything done.

Let me say that again. You . . . will . . . never . . . get . . . everything . . . done.

You will never clear this mental (or written) list that you carry around with you. You will never make the first pile disappear. You must throw overboard, now and for all time, the notion that ...