During crises, people overcommit and stress themselves out. Laura Vanderkam's method: before scheduling anything, ask if you'd drop everything to do it right now. If no, defer it. Focus only on what truly matters.
One big challenge we have in crisis is that we start to overwhelm our schedule. We take on more and more and say yes to more and more, and we get overwhelmed, actually burying ourselves, making the crisis worse. Well, there's a very simple strategy to prioritizing what needs to get done and what can be put off till some future consideration. It's developed by Laura Vanderkamp. She's the author of 168 Hours. And this is a strategy. Whatever you're considering, ask yourself. Instead of just scheduling it, ask yourself, is this something that I'm willing to drop everything for right now? If not, it's something that you shouldn't even necessarily schedule. Put it on the checklist for future considerations. But let's focus on your priority, because if you're not willing to do that thing now, it's not something we have to consider for now. For more tips like this, go to mikemotorbike.com.
