If it takes less than 2 minutes, do it right away.

If you’re not supposed to do it at all, it will drain you if you keep chasing stuff like this, it is totally unimportant or not a priority, it is useless, it’s a total waste of time, don’t do it, even if it takes less than 2 minutes.

If it’s a good idea and it needs to be done, and it takes less than two minutes (by a rough estimation, that is, about two minutes, give or take), then by all means, jump on it right away. Do it now. Immediately. Go for it. Attack it right away.

If it takes longer than two minutes, and you still want to do it, you either start doing it right away, or write it on a to-do list, to do it any time later on as you see fit, or schedule it in your calendar.

Which means, you don’t sit down and ask yourself what should I do today, and then start filling your to-do lists and calendars with sound suggestions, and then you start your day by addressing those tasks written.

You sit down, and ask yourself: what do I want to do now. According to the answer that comes or shows up to you, you will act. If it takes less than two minutes, you’ll address it or try to finish it right away. If it takes more than two minutes, you will then have to choose between either doing it right away, or writing it down in one of your to-do lists, so that you can do it any time later on as you see fit, as it suits you, or whenever you feel like it (sorry, Mel Robbins), or in one of your calendars to only do it at a specific time your judgement has deemed to be a good idea to take care of that matter during which.

Again, if you are a primitive person, all of the above would seem like complicating things and would feel like too much. You have to improve yourself as a human being. You have to become smarter. You need to become more ambitious. You must become better. There’s no bypassing that. Stop wanting everybody else to accept you more by being less of who you really are, by being less intelligent than you actually are or need to be. Don’t water yourself down to please other people or make them love or accept you more. Don’t dumb yourself down to fit in.

Not every task should be put in a to-do list. Not everything needs to be scheduled. You are allowed to do stuff right away without telling yourself this is what I am going to do now through writing down the task in some form of to-do list, planning notes, or a calendar. You can do stuff directly, without writing them down first or at all. You are your own leader. Do what you want, the way you want to.

Not everything you tell yourself through urges or impulses is worth listening to. It is up to you to decide whether or not an impulse or an urge is a good idea to follow at the moment.

Listen to yourself, but don’t be a slave to yourself. Don’t chase whatever yourself tells you, even the stuff that you highly disagree with.

You do stuff habitually, directly, or because it’s planned in a written form somewhere like a to-do list, calendar, or planning notes.

Please, I urge you not to end up doing stuff habitually only, or because it’s been written or planned only. You can do stuff directly too. Don’t deprive yourself from that luxury or option. It is what true freedom really means. To-do lists and calendars are just there to help you finish things faster, not restrict you from doing anything you want whenever you want. Not to restrict you from doing anything unless it’s written in either of them first. They are productivity tools, not productivity gulags.

Remember: The ultimate goal is to be free to run around all day. Free to do it all my way.