Time management is a super power that elevates you above everyone who does not have it. I read a book called Getting Things Done which provided a system for the first time in my life, and it changed my life forever.

Every idea, ever task, and every project gets dumped into an app. I sort through them once a week on Sundays, and set up what I'm going to work on that week. Some projects get dropped, others refined.

Before I started doing this I earned $12 an hour, and worked in a collections department. I considered myself unreliable, and so did everyone else. I hated that job so much.

Afterwards I had a zero inbox for the first time in my life. And I've kept it at zero for ten years. Every day I sort my email just like GTD taught me, and then later I'll check the actionable folder where I sorted stuff I still have to work on.

The mental freedom that comes from knowing everything you have to do deal with is tracked cannot be overstated. There's this low level anxiety that's always there. Am I forgetting to do something?

Nope, because I wrote it all down, and I track it. I became reliable. People started to trust me. I started landing bigger and bigger milestones.

Today I only make about $15 an hour...24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I get paid in royalties. I work from home. I can take on big crazy tasks, and know they get done.

It all goes back to that book, to having a schedule, and to tracking all the projects and goals I wanted to get done.