Not Every Task Deserves Your Attention

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One of the biggest mistakes people make is treating all tasks as if they matter equally.

If we are to be honest , some task will improve you and push you forward while others will just make you busy without adding anything positive.

Learning to tell the difference and saying no to the shallow ones can completely change the way you work.

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Take an office setting. An employee may spend the whole day answering emails, sitting in routine meetings, and handling small requests. By evening, it feels like they worked hard, yet little real progress was made. Compare that to dedicating a few focused hours on an important project, like designing a new system that saves the team hours every week. The second approach creates lasting impact, while the first just fills time.

The same applies to students. Rewriting neat notes or organizing study materials feels like effort, but it doesn’t prepare them as much as practicing exam questions. True progress comes from focusing on the work that directly sharpens skills, not from polishing tasks that look productive on the surface.

We can also see the clear difference in our personal life. Let us say that you spend most of your weekend in doing some home chores but could not learn anything new that will aid your improvement , well , work was done because you were busy but none of those work added to your personal improvement.

The lesson to be learnt here is very simple and straightforward , you can be busy but not productive , the two are two different concept. So if you really want to grow , you need to separate the task that matters from the ones that create noise.

The fist step of achieving this is two write down your goals , then ask your self the ones that will matter a year from now, channel all your energy on those ones and then reduce or eliminate other ones. as time goes on , you will come to realize that by doing less , you have achieved more of your desired goals.​