This is how you WIN A WAR, NOT JUST TINY BATTLES. - November 24, 2025

Published on 24 November 2025 at 17:41

In the past, you have put in a lot of work. You have set up the necessary boundaries, effectively walling yourself in from the outside world, and your base is now secure for any potential threats. The problem however is that you are currently stuck in a defensive mode where you are only protecting what you have without growing its potential.

You are only reacting to threats instead of taking yourself out of the immediateness of the frontline and zooming out to reveal the bigger picture to yourself. But remember: while walls can buy you time, they cannot ensure you a victory.

Instead of stockpiling your potential and merely guarding it, you ought to optimize it and use it to its fullest potential. If this would be the Age of Empires, one would call this "idle villager syndrome" where potential is being wasted due to poor resource management. Instead of tackling your tasks one by one, and micromanaging every single step, you need to macromanage it all and put all your tasks into groups.

See your tasks as scattered and confused army units that are currently bumping into eachother - all because you haven't grouped them together effectively. And remember that while micromanaging your tasks might win you single battles, it won't help you to win the bigger war that is happening in your life.

It's time for you to pull back from the frontline. And just like you would if this were to be a game, you now need to click on the map to see the bigger picture of your entire workflow and task list.

   Stop addressing your tasks one by one. Queue up your production as though it would be a conveyor belt in a factory because seconds wasted here and there quickly become minutes lost.  

Streamline your process and group your tasks into formations. Perhaps you want to divide your workload into three strategic task groups.   One for tasks that you need to say yes to immediately and you need to tackle head-on. One for everything that can be automated. And one for you to go and scout opportunities as well as potential traps on your time, focus, and energy before comitting to it.