MITs

Firefighting is exhausting and it never leaves time for planning for the future.

In his book Zen Habits, Leo Babauta recommends this great practice called listing your MITs. It stands for Most Important Tasks and these are the tasks that will bring you one step closer to your long term goals.

What you do is you list your 3 MIT’s for each day, (the day before) then you don’t do anything else until these three tasks are done or you hit your time limit (if you want to set a time limit).

So first thing in the morning, avoid checking your emails, only open the bare minimum of tabs and get cracking on your first MIT.

Then when you’ve finished your MIT’s, you can spend the rest of the day firefighting happy in the knowledge that you took vital steps towards achieving your long term goals.

It’s a great practice and I highly recommend it.