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Do you ever wake up to a laundry list of tasks, projects, and priorities that have been rolling over day after day and accumulating on your to-do list,

along with stacks of emails, unreturned text messages, and a pile of voicemails.

And before your morning coffee is finished, the notifications, the alerts, the project

management software starts chirping even with more tasks and requests that demand your

attention, get stacked on top of your list,

it's maddening, right? It can also be paralyzing. What do you do? Where do you even start?

How are you going to see yourself out of it? It's time to ask yourself the ruthless question.

And that is this. If I could only do one thing today, what would it be? One. Not 50, not 10, not even three. One. What is the one thing I can work on or accomplish that will have the greatest impact on my goals today? Just one. Steve Jobs said back in 2012,

prioritization sounds like such a simple thing,

but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer.

If you could only do one thing, what would it be?

Steve, who had returned to Apple after being forced out for 12 years,

returned to find the company had accumulated

too many products and had too many projects and priorities. It was being crushed under the

weight of its accumulated opportunities, probably how you might even feel right now. So the first

thing that Steve did upon returning was to figure out what products and projects

were most important and valuable to Apple and then terminate the rest. Terminating projects and

opportunities, some that might even be profitable, can feel brutal and ruthless in the moment.

But like pruning a rose bush, it is necessary for the plant,

for the organism, for the enterprise to flourish. You might be killing one bud of opportunity,

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