Frictionless Freelancing

Having a process is valuable, but don’t get stuck in it. Sometimes you can just pick up the phone and hack through the knot.

Mark Forster’s assertion to write most tasks down instead of doing them makes sense. That can avoid a lot of wasted activity.

Rule of thumb: If you don’t know what happens next after a product or sales meeting, the meeting was pointless.

Another reason people load up nonactionable items that linger from day to day in their Critical Now section is they fail to delineate a task’s next action.