Here’s the thing about productivity: we only have a certain amount of time on our hands, and yet we have an ever-growing number of tasks to complete. […]
The reason we try to manage time is because we know exactly how much of it we have. It’s finite. Yet the number of tasks we have to complete isn’t.
And that’s the problem.
[M]anaging a task is far more – well, manageable – than managing time. You end up managing one thing at a time rather than something that is far greater in size – something that that no one has ever really mastered a battle with.
[W]hat we need to do is worry about figuring out how to do a great job with the tasks we’re given rather than with the time we’re given.
That’s how you can really become not just more productive – but a better kind of productive in the process.