Doing the easiest thing first (the low-hanging fruit) gets a bad rap. But it can actually make everything easier. In this episode Janine and Shannon discuss strategies around using low-hanging fruit to get stuff done.
Discussion topics include:
- Low-hanging fruit counts!
- How allowing yourself to address low-hanging fruit first can help you get started
- Starting with something easy and stopping when it stops being easy
- Shannon’s ingenious closet-cleaning method
- How there’s always the lowest hanging fruit
- Addressing low-hanging fruit in any situation
- Low-hanging fruit in task management
- Remembering that you don’t have to do everything at once
- Counting every step (even the easiest step!)
- Magical words: “Done for now”
- Giving yourself credit for what you’re doing
- Making sure your next action feels really doable (and if it doesn’t, scale it back or move on to something else)
Links:
- Episode 33: Closet Curation, where Shannon goes in-depth into her closet-cleaning method
- Mark Forster’s Autofocus task-management system
- Episode 2: Rewards
- Episode 143: Progress, Not Perfection
