Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

by Jake Knapp

To-do lists make it worse because they mix easy tasks with hard-but-important ones.

Put your most important project on the front burner. You are allowed to have one and only one project, activity, or objective on the front burner. Not two, not three—just one.

Reacting to what’s in front of you is always easier than doing what you intend.