The Attention Bandits - How to Win Against Your To Do List | Ep. 03

Slow and steady wins the race. Today, you inevitably enter the day with a mountain of tasks and requests. One thousand things that would like for you to cough up your attention and fork it over. Each project wears the frightening and intimidating garb of a mountain bandit, a bloodthirsty pirate, or even a spoiled aristocrat, posturing for your attention… Or else.

Or else what? Is there truly something these phantoms can do to you? Sure, they might seem important. They might have consequences and threats that they wave around at you, but each of these tasks is simply that. I think. I think you can approach individually, sit in a quiet room together, pay up the required attention until the mountain bandit is so impressed with your diligence and thoughtfulness that he changes professions to a school teacher.

Do not attempt to enter a backyard brawl with your to-do list. The loser of the battle royale will be you. Instead, approach each of your attention representatives earnestly, one by one. Listen to their demands and diligently oblige with their requests as a firm, benevolent ruler. Be steady in approaching these problems and do not let the bandits accumulate too much strength by avoiding their demands. Slow and steady. Stay with it.