How To Use Each Day Better

June 4th, 2008          Email This Post        Print This Post

Sometimes, at the end of the day, I look back and see that while I have done a lot of things, they weren’t really important. I read an email and did some research about it. I clicked around. I looked up something for someone else. I poked around online looking at various articles, deals, and news. Sent a few emails. But in the long run, they don’t really help anything I am trying to accomplish.

One way to make sure you spend your day more meaningfully is to decide the night BEFORE what to work on. Your sense of priorities during the day shifts when urgent or interesting things come up, usually away from your longer term goals. Therefore deciding the day before, or even better by the week, helps keep your priorities straight. Don’t plan your whole day (it rarely works). Rather, pick one or two tasks/projects/issues that will really MAKE your day if you work on them. These are your MIT’s - MOST Important Tasks for the day.
Each day, do your MIT’s first! Doing what is really important in the long run is a great way to start off your day!

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