Minh Doan

Use these methods to take control of your time today:

1. Oliver Burkeman's 3/3/3 Method

↳ Complete the most important tasks during 3 hours of deep work.
↳ Spend 3 hours on shorter urgent tasks and finish with 3 admin tasks.

2. The Eisenhower Matrix
↳ Start delegating or declining any unimportant time-consuming tasks.
↳ Focus on the urgent and important tasks ahead of all other activities.

3. Biological Scheduling
↳ Identify your most productive hours based on your energy cycles.
↳ Schedule your most important tasks during your high-energy periods.

4. The 2-Minute Rule
↳ Most of our stress comes from not finishing what we have started.
↳ If a task takes less than two minutes, stop procrastinating and do it now.

5. Digital Detox
↳ Take prolonged periods away from your digital devices.
↳ You will return back to your work with more clarity and productivity.

6. Break tasks down
↳ Break down long or complex tasks into small digestible pieces.
↳ Schedule the hardest most complex tasks for your high-energy hours.

7. AI Tools
↳ Use AI-powered tools to delegate the most unimportant tasks.
↳ This helps reduce your task list and buy you back hours of time.

8. Seinfeld Strategy
↳ Start achieving your goals by turning them into daily measurable habits.
↳ Keep up the daily pattern for as long as possible and never take 2 days off.

9. Get Things Done Rule
↳ Write down your outstanding tasks and rank them on importance.
↳ Work through this updated to-do list and realign yourself after every task.

10. Eliminate Multitasking
↳ Stop focusing on multiple tasks only work on a single one at a time.
↳ The brain is at its highest potential when you are focused on one thing only.