To Get It Done, Make It Fun

Good morning!

I promise all my readers at least one good book recommendation per week, and this is it!

Today’s book is called Outer Order, Inner Calm, by Gretchen Rubin.

This is a fast one to fly through, but I was able to take some excellent notes…notes that I was later able to apply to my life and thus make my days a little easier to manage.

Most helpful was abandoning most of the “projects” I had on the go and instead just focusing on a few.

It’s kind of like Warren Buffet’s “Two Lists” advice. Make a list of the top 25 things you want to do with your life, and then make a separate list of your top 5.

And then…

Never look at the first list again.

Which might be a bit extreme (circumstances change, of course, and we might be able to go back to our first list at a later time in our lives), but it’s solid advice.

We try to do too much, and our performance suffers on everything. It’s a “Chase two rabbits and lose them both” type deal.

Anyway, Gretchen’s book is pretty damn good. A sample of my notes is below, and then we’ll get into a little bit of discussion.

Read on!