Stress and overflow is an everyday phenomenon in the lives of many of us, and time management an issue. Thus, every day is a new challenge to sort out the priorities for the day. Take your time and read at Zenhabits, trivial or not, even if one knows about the problem and the tactic in principle, realization can be difficult and in practice it’s hardly ever done. I myself currently experience this problem to stay focused every day: A lot of jobs to do in a small office, crowded with people phoning, talking, chatting … sounds of various machines etc. etc….
The key to Haiku Productivity is to limit yourself to an arbitrary but
small number of things, forcing yourself to focus on the important
stuff and eliminate all else.
To understand this simple concept, think about the form of the haiku
(the common version, at least): it’s poetry in 17 syllables, with 3
lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. The
point is that the form of the haiku is extremely limited, to a small
number of lines and syllables.
What this does is forces the poet to focus on only those words that
mean the most to the poem. While other forms of poetry can go on for
pages, haiku are short and compact. As a result, haiku can be some of
the most powerful poems in any language.
