Tackle Little Tasks So You Can Focus On The Big, Haunting Problems

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Do you find yourself overwhelmed when trying to tackle everyday tasks? Have you been putting off answering a simple email, or buying that new lightbulb? Our simple system will help you get over these mental blocks and free you up to focus on the real, haunting issues, like, “What am I even doing with my life?” and “Does my existence have literally any purpose?”

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You’ll be amazed by how much free time you have to sink into a deep existential angst once our system helps you re-prioritize. Don’t be haunted by small problems like the dishwasher that needs emptying. Be haunted by your own internal emptiness!

Also, you’re thinking of tackling all the little tasks like it’s one big task—you need to take the recycling out and do this month’s budget and do the laundry and organize your files. But if you think about each task individually, you’ll realize each one will take you about all of 10 minutes. This leaves plenty of time to worry about your crippling debt, or wonder if you have a terminal illness that won’t get diagnosed until it kills you. At the very least, you’ll have carved out some time to speculate on haunting problems like whether everyone in your life secretly hates you, or wonder if you’ve been wrong about every decision you’ve ever made.

So just take a few minutes every now and then to tackle everyday tasks. It’s about reprioritizing today so that you can question each and every one of your priorities tomorrow.

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Mark Hill: Mark has written for Cracked, the Modern Rogue, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Atlantic, Motherboard, the Daily Dot, and a bunch of other places that he can't remember off the top of his head. He also writes most of the nation's grocery lists.