Focusing on fewer but more critical tasks is important, but to really simplify our tasks we must talk about the size of the tasks as well. We can focus on just one task today, but if it’s a huge and intimidating task, we can become overwhelmed and not actually do the task. Limiting our tasks doesn’t get anything done if those tasks are too big. Instead, break things down into small tasks that can be accomplished in an hour or less—even better would be twenty to thirty minutes, or even ten to fifteen minutes. The smaller, the better, because then we’re more likely to actually get them done.
