We all know the feeling: you wake up and immediately the thought shoots through your mind. What do I have to do today?! It's better to ask: What am I going to do today?! Then we've responsibility relieved ourselves of the heaviness and burden of responsibility . Because when we talk about "having to," it has many meanings. Ultimately, we find ourselves in a state of low energy.
Back to the tasks of the day. Why should we go one step further? Why should we ask ourselves what we consciously don't want to do today? Isn't that counterproductive?
No, it isn't. On the contrary!
Boris Grundl puts it so beautifully:
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- Are we focusing on the essentials?
- Or do we waste our daily energy on all sorts of things?
The question "What am I consciously not doing today?" helps us enormously here. And I have now made it my morning ritual to ask myself this question every day, which enables me to work more effectively.
Intensify your focus and work more effectively
But why does that make sense? Well, let's be honest. When we have a normal day and reflect on it in the evening, we usually say: "Well, I could have done less here and there. Or this and that wasn't really that useful. I could have made better use of my valuable time." Or something like that. Of course, we don't always know everything better in advance. And that's why these reflections will always be there. They are very important. But we can increase our focus on the essentials even more if we make ourselves very aware of what we don't want to do (anymore).
What can I actually do on this day? And no one else. Or is doing this thing just a way to distract myself from what is essential? We all know how easy it is to stray from our goals. As Cal Newport has rightly pointed out, we need "deep work" rather than "shallow work" in order to achieve performance.
Maximize leverage
In my opinion, everyone has room for improvement when it comes to focusing their time—that is, working more effectively. Increasing efficiency, maximizing the leverage of one's own performance, and intensifying focus. That is the fine art of effectiveness. In other words, doing the right thing! Only then does the question of efficiency arise, which means doing it right. Of course, you can work highly efficiently at doing the wrong thing. It sounds crazy, but I believe that many people do exactly that all the time.
Question everything! Every ritual, no matter how familiar. Your time is the only resource you can only "spend" once. Then it's gone forever, past, passé. We have about 30,000 days at our disposal in life. That sounds like a lot, but when we compare it to the age of our planet, which is about four billion years, we only have a blink of an eye to live. So it makes a lot of sense to think carefully about what we shouldn't do.
And that's why I'm now saying: everything has been said on this topic. I'm not going to write any more on this blog post! I wish you every success in thinking about what you won't be doing today and tomorrow, so that you can work more effectively at the end of the day.
Yours, Uli Vogel
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