Golden Rule #11
Work in a way that shows results at the end of the day, for then you can be sure you are making progress.
You should always ensure that you can look back and identify what you have accomplished. Imagine the difference between being able to say “I did X, Y and Z” and “I kinda worked on A”. The first becomes quantifiable instead of remaining vague and subjective.
This is more or less the principle behind tools like to-do lists. In theory, when you then have a list of items you have ‘crossed out’, you can definitively say what you have done. Of course, in a vacuum it becomes an onerous list of things to be done. Some context is needed so that you are working towards something other than just knocking things off the list.
But there is a some good sense in breaking things down into manageable pieces. Instead of trying to chip away a huge boulder of a project you can then work step by step on the smaller pieces. Try doing that with your life goals and see the progress pile up.
