One of the easiest things to do in the modern world is fill up your time doing “stuff.” But not all “stuff” is created equal. And most stuff won’t help you reach your goals.

Some of it is an outright distraction and holding you back from making progress in your life.

For instance, if you’ve declared a goal of becoming a freelance writer, that’s an excellent first step.

Yet, it’s a big goal. To achieve it, what do you need to do next?

Productivity experts tell us to achieve a big goal, we need to break the steps down into bite-size pieces. That sounds helpful, but how do you do that?

This decades-old productivity framework can help.