50% of the battle is knowing what you want to accomplish and in what priority order. Writing it down helps immensely and forces clarity. I like to write a simpl

50% of the battle is knowing what you want to accomplish and in what priority order. Writing it down helps immensely and forces clarity. I like to write a simple TODO checklist on a piece of paper in the morning while I eat breakfast. Having a single TODO app bucket that collects everything in your personal backlog is fine, but it’s only useful if you can actually groom the backlog and select tasks to work on for a given day. The key is to select a reasonable amount of work each day. If your daily TODO list is always 15 items long and each of them takes at least 2 hours to do properly, deep down you’re going to know it’s all impossible and ignore the list entirely. Instead, pick 1 or 2 main big tasks for the day, maybe 2-4 smaller auxiliary tasks that can be accomplished quickly (grocery shopping, gym), and maybe a couple of quick TODOs that can be batched together in an hour (vacuum floors, iron laundry, etc). Keep it reasonable, and actually check them off your list as you do them so you can review what’s left. You also need to understand where your time is disappearing to. Do you have untracked tasks that aren’t on your TODO list but are actually taking hours every day? Get them on the list and work them into your priorities. Be honest about them. Or are you getting caught up in social media, web browsing, or going down a rabbit hole of a side curiosity? Again, you need to be honest about unwanted time sinks and take steps to address them: Screen time limits for offending apps, content blockers, etc.