Your Time, Your Way

Why Your Ego Is Writing Checks Your Body Can't Cash

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Sep 28, 2025
Dive into the age-old struggle of urgent versus important tasks and learn why prioritizing the latter is crucial. Discover how hustle culture hampers productivity and the vital need to protect sleep and self-care. Explore the two foundational laws of time management: you can only do one thing at a time and everything requires time. Finally, uncover effective planning strategies to declutter your to-do list and simplify your day, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.
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INSIGHT

Urgent Versus Important Cycle

  • Most people spend too much time on urgent tasks and not enough on important ones.
  • Focusing on important work reduces the amount of urgent work you face later.
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Two Immutable Time Laws

  • Two immutable laws govern productivity: you can do one thing at a time and everything takes time.
  • Internalising these laws lets you design a realistic time management system.
ANECDOTE

Hustle-Culture Burnout

  • Carl recounts his hustle-culture years when he worked until 2am and still missed key results.
  • He downloaded many productivity tools but ended up with scattered tasks and lower output.
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