Read this way back in like 1997 or 1996 when my manager at MCI at the time enrolled me in a course related to the book. I really took a few of the principles to heart that have made me very efficient in my work and one of my favorite principals was something related to 'taking care of small quick tasks immediately'

I can't remember if it was a habit or just some insight but I seem to recall it as the 2-minute rule and have applied it to a lot of my life. Basically it means if you have small tasks that you can complete in 2 minutes or less you should attack those first to free up time to focus on more important and larger tasks. This ties in with a lot of studies i've read that say that unless you really immerse yourself in a larger task, you can't really focus on it as well so by getting the little things out of the way, it lets your mind really focus on the big tasks and not wander back to those niggling little things that are still on the to do list...

(Like writing this review now to get it over with :)