What's The Smallest Thing You Will Do Today To Make Things Manageable?

Details, a million things that clamor for your attention, projects, tasks, chores, errands, ARRRGGGHH! The Procrastinator in me wants to go back to bed, and wake up on Tuesday.

Mondays seem to be great days for the list that never ends. But making a list tames the craziness, as does tackling those pieces. Good time managers identify what steps they need to accomplish within each task.

Surprise, surprise! They break them down into "smallest things", prioritize them by importance, and delegate where they can.

Not all of us can delegate our details to other people, but we can organize our thinking so things don't seem so overwhelming. My Procrastinator wants me to do that, because she sees it as a way to put off actually taking action on anything. Making a list can seem like an achievement, and some people stop there.

It is an achievement. But only if you then DO something about the items on the list.

So, today, I will regroup and organize my world, something I do every morning. And then, I will do the smallest thing...I will take action! As someone wise in my life used to say, "Well begun is halfway done."

What's the smallest thing you will do today to wrangle your wild details?