Manage Your Day-to-Day

Three key ideas

1. 1Give important creative work a protected place before incoming requests take all your attention.
2. 2Regular practice means you depend less on rare bursts of inspiration.
3. 3Let your tools serve your chosen work instead of constantly interrupting it.

The five 2-minute lessons

1. 1.Protect the work before the pings
2. 2.Make starting easy to repeat
3. 3.Let urgent in, keep routine out
4. 4.Pause, then come back
5. 5.Pick one tool and test it

From the comic

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