Most of us have to do list but legendary…
Most of us have to do list but legendary management Guru. Tom Peters also has what he calls to don’t list an inventory of behaviours and practices that separate energy divert, his focus and or to be avoided.
— from Fuel (Energy)
In the book
Protect the reserve, and start at dawn. The first real choice of the day is whether to rise eagerly and take the controls, or lie there and let the day choose for you. From there, guard the fuel: refuse to spend it on the non-productive, learn to say no, and keep not only a to-do list but a "to-don't" list of what you will no longer indulge. Make the good habits easy and the draining ones inconvenient so the structure spares your willpower, and settle conservation, storage, and wise expenditure into habits rather than daily decisions. — Fuel (Energy)
Do not believe the lie of multitasking; people who try to do everything at once are measurably less effective than those who do one thing fully. The most effective people I know keep not just a to-do list but a to-DON'T list — an inventory of what diverts them, to be avoided — and they treat focus as something that can be trained, until they can hold their attention even amid distraction. And spend your focus where it can actually do something: the proactive put their energy into their circle of influence — the things they can affect — while the reactive pour theirs into the circle of concern, the vast territory they cannot touch, and end up only anxious and blaming. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)