It hits me sometimes that many new readers of my books and videos don’t really understand the true value of MYN. It might be because I take people into the weeds too fast about how to do MYN, and I fail to step back and discuss why we do it and why it works so well. So in this brief article, I want to explore that: why do we use MYN and why does it work so well?
At the highest level, MYN is about this: helping you overcome your feeling of overwhelm. It’s about having a system of organizing and seeing your true priorities so accurately that you find your work, your life, and your sanity all clearly under control. With MYN, once you see your responsibilities clearly laid out in their MYN urgency zones, and once you apply appropriate size limits, you will say to yourself: “Hey, it’s not that bad, I can do this.” And guess what? That feeling of overwhelm simply dissolves. You feel relaxed, you feel in control, and you have a clear focus on what to do next.
You Need a Good System
It’s when you don’t have a system that clearly and accurately presents your true work priorities that the feeling of overwhelm takes over. This is true of the typical long, poorly organized, paper or computer to-do lis most other systems present. In those other approaches, you look at the list and even though the tasks are there, you get that feeling: “There is something I am forgetting, something that I need to do.” And when you have that feeling, it’s crappy. It causes stress and concern. And interestingly, it then causes you to focus your work time on the wrong things. Why the wrong things? Because that stress and fear lead to poor decisions. You start to work quickly on whatever is in front of you. You start to scramble aimlessly, hoping to make a dent in the seemingly uncontrollable pile of work. And unfortunately, often times that means working on whatever happens to be at the top of your pile.
And especially bad is if you simply jump into your email inbox. It’s easy just to jump into the inbox because there appears to be a lot of recent and quick wins there. But the problem with that is this: the mail at the top of your inbox is usually exactly the wrong thing to be working on. You usually end up working on low priority work and neglecting the high.
It’s Not Hard to Do
So instead, put your tasks, and urgent email requests, into MYN urgency zones. Then, when you work off those, you realize you know exactly what to do and that you can do it. It’s a wonderful feeling to know you are working on exactly the right things.
And this is important: segmenting your work into MYN urgency zones is not hard to do; this is not a hard system. Simply reading my free book The One Minute To Do List, or taking one of my MYN video classes, you will quickly learn how to segment your work into those zones, and how to use them effectively with appropriate size limits and simple timing controls.
It’s Easy to Recover
Granted, even as an experienced MYN user, in the heat of a super-busy period, sometimes we slip away from our MYN principles and we let things get out of control. Maybe we are out of town on a trip and can’t attend to our tasks. Or maybe we’ve been heads down on a project and so we’ve neglected a lot of other important things that have been coming in.
But for whatever reason that your list gets out of control, the good news is this: with MYN, it’s extremely easy to get it back into control. With a little practice, it can literally only take 15 minutes to organize a pile of disorganized work back into well-organized MYN urgency zone classifications. It’s easy because the principles for doing so are simple. And once you do get them back in their zones, it all becomes clear. You have a well-presented snapshot of what work needs attention and when. You see it clearly and you see it is not so bad.
So that’s the true value of MYN. It presents to you exactly what you need to do and it allows you to get the most import of it done. It gives you a way to easily and quickly sort your tasks into their right zones. And by doing that, it erases the feeling of overwhelm. That way you can calmly and accurately complete the right work first, working with the confidence that you’re doing the right things at the right times.
The breakdown of why traditional to-do lists often fail is insightful, and the reminder that MYN is easy to recover from is reassuring Sprunki Game
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I adore this perspective! Tasks can quickly overwhelm, but MYN makes it easy to restore control. Just a little time to sort and prioritize makes a big difference. It’s about reducing chaos-related stress and anxiety, not just managing duties. It’s refreshing basketball stars to organize everything into urgent zones. Thanks for reminding us that we can always reset and refocus on what important even when things become chaotic!