2 Simple Productivity Tips That Will Help You Achieve More By Doing Less (It’s Called The 10 & 1)

Being ADHD, it’s my passion to add thousands of tasks to my task list.

My brain thinks something, and it gets space on an endless list of crap, which is why most productivity systems and technology have failed me.

In fact, they fail most people whether they have a disorder or not. It’s unrealistic to think we’ll ever get everything done and even more unrealistic to think everything deserves the same priority.

Most productivity advice promises to help you get everything that’s important done — but that’s impossible.

If you focus on everything, you focus on nothing. Instead, you have to realize that tough choices need to be made and to make them consciously.

You need to limit yourself to 10 and 1.

Limit your open tasks list to only 10.

In the book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman gives a great tip, no matter how hard it is to execute in the beginning:

Your task list should only have a maximum of ten open tasks at once.

Once you feed tasks from the open to the closed list, you can then add tasks to the open list. “The rule…