How to Stop drowning in to-dos

Last week, I introduced our objectives system to you.

This week, I’m going to let you in on a little secret.

Things don’t always go that smoothly for me.

Hi, it’s Nooa. Today I want to share the next tool I use to get shit done.

I remember when all this productivity and organisation stuff first started interesting me.

I’m sure most of you remember what it was like when COVID hit back in early 2020 and we were suddenly all stuck at home. I was in 10th grade back then. Teachers were giving us tasks randomly, and I had no way to track what I needed to do in which order. Of course, I could have been boring and written everything on paper, which I did for a while. I had a nice little calendar with everything I had to do.

The problem is that a calendar needs to be carried with you, once you write things down, you cant unwrite them and I don’t really like my handwriting either.

Then, I stumbled upon Microsoft To-do, a pretty nice app. I used that for a while, until I felt it was too limited, too simple. That’s when I discovered Notion, and when I slowly started using it for everything.

One use case was task management.

And if we imagine getting shit done like a pyramid, then your tasks are the base layer. The smallest entity in the system, like a cell in your body.

The next level are the objectives, covered in last week’s edition.

Finally, we have your goals, which I will talk about next week.

So, back to the story. I found this tool that could tell me what I have to do, how important it is, and by when I need to have it done.

Over time, my systems improved, but now I find myself in a constant struggle between over-engineering and not having enough systems in place. At the moment, I think I have found a pretty good balance.

Why am I telling you all this?

Because you want to get shit done. You want to improve: Actually start going to the gym regularly, start posting content and stop merely ideating about it, finally start that business you have been thinking about.

And from my experience, this is the backbone of it all. Set your goals. Define your objectives. Break them down into tasks.

Once you start doing this, I can guarantee you that you will be more productive.

Of course, there is more to this. Habits, different tips and tricks, all sorts of extra fluff. But moving on, remember the three most important steps.

Define goals.

Set objectives.

Complete tasks.

See you next week.