Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.