[DarwinMailApp]

I could not agree more. For years I was just doing things for the sake of being busy.. crossing tasks off my todo list on a daily basis. I felt so accomplished, however, I was not really getting a lot of useful work done!

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What did I do?

- I started thinking about the tasks I needed to do, assessing if they were actually important to begin with.

- I often found that they were not adding value to my product (DarwinMail[1]) and so I discarded them.

- I also quickly completed any task that would take 5 minutes or less to complete.

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What was the result?

- About a year on and I have a successful product (well, success in my head is a product which has thousands of users of which at least hundreds love the product and could not live without it).

- I feel more successful, more fulfilled and a greater sense of accomplishment.

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app

[afarrell]

> assessing if they were actually important to begin with.

I've found answering "Is this important?" very hard. I find it much easier to answer "What is the impact if I do this?"

[DarwinMailApp]

You and me both buddy!

I like your style.. and sometimes I ask myself other questions like will it matter to me in 10 hours, 10 days or 10 weeks?

The longer into the future it matters to me, the more important it is to get done IMO :)

[AstralStorm]

I'd phrase it differently: think what will it won't happen if you reorder the tasks, and how long it will take to achieve.

Mind that both are estimates and can change.

[DarwinMailApp]

No that is a more powerful motivator. Thanks for the tip!

[hippich]

My procrastination works as such filter. If 10 weeks later I still care about it, it is probably something important. Doesn't work that well for security-related issues (where 10 weeks might be too late...)

[riantogo]

“What is the impact if I don’t do this?”, is a stricter filter.

[afarrell]

My first draft of my comment had this. It is true, but can make it hard to rank positive opportunities and only focus on preventing risks.

I think you want to ask both questions.

[TurkishPoptart]

What framework is your site built in? And what did you use to build the application itself? Thanks.

[DarwinMailApp]

PHP, JS, jQuery, LESS :D