A long time ago when I was starting Cantaloupe, I found myself overwhelmed with tasks. I searched everywhere for something to help and came across the Getting Things Done system which promised “stress-free productivity”.

Books offer vast amounts of knowledge and inspiration, but often I feel like I’m only able to take away a handful of learnings. And that’s ok.

With GTD there’s one lesson that has benefitted over and over again since I began practicing it over a decade:

If a task takes two minutes, then do it now.

A simple quip with profound impact.

Time, like money, has compounding value. If you invest time into something now, it will pay back in spades later. But there can be negative consequences to this value as well. Sometimes, a task that begins simple that’s ignored can become exponentially more difficult to deal with in the future.

Take for instance, one time I