The work matters more than the system…

That, my friend, is a very simple point. The work matters more than the system.

Today, I closed ToDoist, shut down my calendar and I abandoned my plan for the day. I took out a notebook and a pen and a made a list and I worked from that…today.

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Systems are good — use a system

Having a system to organise your work, to organise all your responsibilities, commitments, goals and hope to do’s is an essential part of being effective.

• Capturing everything is needed — how else will you know what needs doing?
• Organising everything is the only to be able to find what you need quickly whenever you need it.
• Planning your time…if you don’t do this, then you will never understand what you are supposed to be doing at any given point.
• Executing…well this can only really happen in an effective way if you follow that plan with your organised list of captured tasks and commitments.

Having a system is good. Having a system is essential to productivity.

But….the work itself matters more.

There will always be days where you need to close down the system and ignore it. There will always be days where, for whatever reason, you are…