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Life’s challenges shouldn’t paralyze you; they should help you figure out who you really are.

When we feel distracted and overwhelmed, it’s usually because we have a 50-item to-do list. When this happens, our natural tendency as addicts is to make a little progress in 50 different directions without completing any one task. We then feel even more scattered and overwhelmed than before. In recovery, we can learn the 20/80 rule. We look at the list and ask, “What 20% of my to-do list creates 80% of my returns.” We can then create a new list with some high-reward tasks at the top. When one of these tasks is completed, we are rewarded because that task provides us with a high return on investment, energizes us, and motivates us to complete the rest of the tasks on the list. Basically, we try to find the leading domino because we know that if we knock it over, the rest of the dominoes will start falling as well.

today’s task
Find the leading domino on your to-do list and knock it over.