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 5

FILTER ONE – TO DO OR NOT TO DO

If we are to do the right stuff, then we need to filter out anything that isn't. And we want to do this both in work and in the rest of our lives.

Filter #1 is where we do this – where we make the crucial decisions about what to, and what not to, invest our precious time in. This filter says that we need to learn to prioritize viciously. As we will see, this will result in some things going through the first filter and some things being stopped. For the things that get stopped, we need to have a way of ...