You've obviously heard of having a to do list I'm sure you use to do lists from time to time. highly productive. People also use something called a closed list, they put a list of things they're going to do today, nothing else gets on it, it is a closed list. This allows for greater focus. It allows you to complete tasks. And it helps you avoid those extraordinarily costly switching costs where you're trying to go from one thing to the other.

So for example, today I have a closed list. Today I'm going to make 100 videos for my complete course on personal productivity. I am going to respond to emails from clients from yesterday, inquiring about conducting training workshops in Russia a couple of other places. I am going to go through my database of six people who need to be called today. And that's it, I'm not doing anything else. I'm not gonna do a blog post today.

My wife just actually asked me to fix a toilet, not going to do it. I'm not going to do anything else, I'm not going to clean my office, although it's pretty clean. I'm not going to take on any new tasks, I'm just going to do those few things on the list. The most important was doing 100 videos, 100 lectures for this course. So that's a great technique for allowing you to keep focused and to actually finish things as opposed to just saying, here's what's on your list, but another 20 things come on and you never got to the top five things were there initially. Think of an experiment with the clothes list for your own to do lists.