Your Brain Is for Having Ideas, Not Holding Them

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Not all notes are created equal. So I might have a note that's a follow up that I need to do something. A lot of notes are actually action items. Remember to go and buy a holiday card for blah, blah, today. If it's something like that, I'll put it in a sauna, which is our work management tool. We talk about it in the book, but that's my go to to organize everything that needs to get done.

Nick Sonnenberg doesn’t believe there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. That’s because when his business was in crisis mode, he developed a framework for eliminating inefficiencies and preventing the sort of metawork – working on working – that leads to scavenger hunts and meetings that could be emails, and for that matter, email runarounds that get everyone ever farther from inbox zero. He turned that framework into a consultancy business, and put it all together in a new book for people who feel underwater titled Come up For Air.