If they can be done later in the week, add them to a goal later in the week or the to-do list down the road. If those aren’t part of your goals for that day, add them to the ‘to-do’ list. Your main focus is your goals, but in each day there may be emails to send or calls to make, non-essential errands to run. These are the little things that pop up each day. My filet mignon days are on the back burner for now. I’ve reduced the amount of food we waste and tracking what I plan to cook means I’m making simple meals on busy days and saving the more time intensive ones for nights we are home.Īnd by ‘time intensive’, I’m talking tacos, people. No longer do I wait until 6PM rolls around and then call in a Hail Mary pizza order. Find the 5 things that will bring you the most joy once they are done– even if that ‘joy’ is simply the feeling of having the weight of a non-preferred task done. Usually I have 5 solid business related goals, but on days you don’t, it’s okay to put ‘take nap’ as a goal. Each day, I write down the 5 main goals I must accomplish that day.

It’s easy to get mired down in a long to-do list, but as I’ve learned in this life-changing book, you have to narrow down your goals and ‘eat’ the ugliest one first. I’m way more on time now when I pre-plan when I need to leave the house to get various places.

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