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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Any strategy for limiting your work in progress will help here (here), but perhaps the simplest is to keep two to-do lists, one “open” and one “closed.” The open list is for everything that’s on your plate and will doubtless be nightmarishly long. Fortunately, it’s not your job to tackle it: instead, feed tasks from the open list to the closed one—that is, a list with a fixed number of entries, ten at most. The rule is that you can’t add a new task until one’s completed. (You may also require a third list, for tasks that are “on hold” until someone else gets back to you.)
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Like I said, this all happens automatically but what’s really cool is that you can take conscious control of the process:
• By intentionally narrowing your visual field, you can increase alertness.
• By intentionally expanding your visual field, you can increase relaxation.
How and Why I Use Vision as a Productivity Tool
Charlotte Grysolle
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