{"id":7069,"date":"2025-06-30T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2025-06-30T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:04:37","slug":"mits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/06\/30\/mits\/","title":{"rendered":"MITs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have a list of pending tasks that\u00b4s longer than your arm? Do you get up every morning with the intention of doing a number of things, and finish your day exhausted, stressed out and unable to finish them all? If so, welcome to the club \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo of one of the pages in my \u00abthings to do\u00bb notepad. By the way, \"a list as long as your arm\" is a very Irish thing to say; in Spanish it sounds a bit weird, but in any case, I love it, I think it\u00b4s very visual.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that works really well for me on days when the list of \"I have to\u00b4s\"<\/a> is overwhelming, is asking myself what the most important task of the day is. It\u00b4s what Leo Babauta from Zen Habits<\/em> calls the MIT, the Most Important Task<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Babauta suggests<\/a> listing every morning up to three priority tasks (or MITs), with at least one of them being directly linked to one of our goals. Then, the key is to do those tasks as early as possible, so that, regardless of how the rest of the day goes, we will have made progress already. That way, we will go to bed every night feeling successful, instead of feeling like a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A list with three tasks seems a lot more manageable than a list as long as your arm, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we can even take it another step further, which is what I do sometimes. We can reduce the list to ONE single task, THE most important thing that needs to be done (or rather, that you choose to do) on that day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And each day will be different: sometimes the most important task will be work-related, sometimes it will be more related to your personal or family life. Sometimes it will involve motivating yourself and finally tackling that thing you\u00b4ve been postponing for so long, and sometimes it will make you go back to basics and get some rest, go for a walk, meet a friend or simply go to sleep, just. because you need it, so that will become the priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key is to recognise that it\u00b4s not humanly possible to complete each and every task we burden ourselves with, and to prioritise the time and energy that we do have in a way that makes us feel good and allows us to keep making progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you? What\u00b4s the most important thing you have to do today? Pick one single thing, and go for it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00bfTienes una lista de tareas pendientes m\u00e1s larga que tu brazo? \u00bfTe levantas por la ma\u00f1ana con la intenci\u00f3n de hacer una serie de cosas, y acabas el d\u00eda agotad@, agobiad@ y sin haber podido terminarlas todas? Si es as\u00ed, bienvenid@ al club \ud83d\ude42 (Foto de una de las p\u00e1ginas de mi cuaderno de \u00abccosas … Continue reading MITs<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":7068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - MITs","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Y el MIT de hoy es... \/ And today\u00b4s MIT is...","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5106,5162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-herramientas","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3DPtR-mits","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2021\/10\/18\/tengo-que\/","url_meta":{"origin":7069,"position":0},"title":"I have to...","author":"binarybea","date":"18\/10\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Una cosa que me propuse para el blog hace unos meses, y que desde entonces llevo cumpliendo, es escribir una entrada nueva a la semana. 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