The Smallest Possible Task

The second to last item on my Daily Review checklist was to “organize your desk,” which includes the very large stack of papers in my Inbox. My Inbox, inspired of course by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, is where all of my incoming papers go so that I can process them and decide what actions need to be done with them at a designated time.

Well, the papers kept piling up to the point that the stack was so overwhelming that I never did anything with them.

Then I adjusted that item on m...