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Today's tip is that if there is a task on your to-do list that you keep kicking forward,

maybe you don't actually have to do it at all.

And if the task can wait, can you eliminate it instead?

Long-time blisters know that I advocate seeing your to-do list as a contract with yourself.

If you put something on your list, you are committing to getting it done on a specific day.

I know not everyone agrees with me on this, and I also know that life happens.

Even if you truly intended to accomplish a task on a given day, there are times when unexpected

things come up, when you have a new demand on your time or when something takes a lot longer

than you had any reason to expect. So you prioritize whatever has to be done that day, and roll forward the rest.

There are some tasks that are important but not necessarily urgent, like identifying your

career goals for the year ahead, exploring an idea for a new service line for your business, or

building a relationship with a new

colleague. Those should happen, but don't have to happen at a specific time. So, if you plan to

spend a morning charting out your long-term career goals but you have a kid home with the flu or an

urgent request from your boss or biggest client,

it makes sense to reschedule the career planning for another time.

So do choose a new time.

You do want to eventually do these things.

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