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title: "What's the Real Next Action?"
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image: kribbestraat-55
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permalink: /weekly-review-15/
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description: "All projects can be daunting if you don't start this habit."
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image-attrib: Ayo Ayco
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image-alt: Winter time in the city
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category: personal
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Wow, it's been a while since I posted something! December 2021 must have been the busiest, most demanding month of my entire life.<!--more-->
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It was a time when the items in my "Active Projects" list was the most.
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Everything I want/need to accomplish, I treat as a Project. And last month indeed there were a lot of things that needed to be accomplished.
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I realized there's one thing that made handling multiple projects significantly more manageable.
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And it's this: the habit of asking "What's the real next action?"
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I know it sounds obvious, but you'll be surprised at how hard this really is if you don't intentionally put your mind into it.
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For example, you might think the next action is something like "call the municipality office" ... but if you think more about it, the *real* next action is "find the municipality office's phone number" and even then, the real next action would be "find out the schedule when the municipality office can take calls".
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Determining the Real Next Action helps in breaking down projects into manageable tasks and frees the mind to focus on really doing the stuff that can actually be done.
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Once you get this habit started, you'll notice that you are actually getting things done instead of constantly having a feeling of being "stuck".
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The truth is, this feeling of being "stuck" often builds up and leads to making us want to procrastinate.
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So the next time you add a task in your TO-DO, ask yourself: What is the Real Next Action?
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