# Completion-centric planning

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If you want to get stuff done rather than “feel” productive, Cal recommends completion-centric planning. At the start of your work day, identify your most important project and ask yourself “what’s the closest I can get to finishing this today?”

Focusing on project completion rather than task completion saves us from what Cal calls Zeno’s Paradox of Productivity:

Give me any project, and I can fill days with easy, fun little tasks on the project without ever finishing it.

Date

February 22, 2023

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