Sort the list
The List Is Lying
For the list with fourteen items where every one arrives at the same volume.
The Three Pile System on paper. Bring one list, sort it once into Hot, Warm and Cold, then touch the work. It won't organize your whole life. It'll make the next decision honest.
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6-page printable. Letter size.
What you get.
- The three piles with real boundaries. Hot maxes out at three, and if a fourth enters, one leaves
- Why volume isn't consequence, and why re-deciding is the part that's actually expensive
- The sort sheet, with a line for the next physical move: open, send, ask, call, draft, schedule
- Permission for the Cold pile to rot, which is the part most people came for
Before you buy.
This is a digital tool, not a physical product and not part of the book. Nothing is mailed. Keep the files and use them again whenever you need them.
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Try the free starter kit firstThe List Is Lying · Worked example
One list. Three different decisions.
The printable asks you to sort by consequence, then write the next physical move. Here is a fictional list filled out using that process.
Send the proposal
The customer needs the price today to make a decision.
Plan next week's meeting
The agenda depends on a colleague's reply. Revisit tomorrow at 10.
Reorganize the office
There is no current deadline or blocked customer. Park the idea.
HOT: Open the draft and enter the missing price.
WARM: Send one question about the agenda today.
COLD: Keep it on the parked list. No action now.
Start with the proposal. If more than three tasks have real near-term consequences, arrange help or renegotiate the work before parking an obligation.
Illustrative example. The six-page printable includes the sort sheet and instructions to use with your own list.