You can’t automate excellence, though we will likely keep trying. It’s futile. Why? Because people are actually worth something. Thus Everything in Its Place is a manifesto for people who see a future for people.

Excellence requires human presence.

our Daily Meeze is a system of organization designed to maintain systems of organization.

Part of our commitment to excellence is using process to remedy and redeem mistakes. We view error as a chance to get better.

THE DAILY MEEZE has four parts, each with a specific function and each taking a certain balance of the time. 1.Clean your station (approximately 15 minutes). 2.Sharpen your tools (approximately 5 minutes). 3.Plan your day (approximately 10 minutes). 4.Gather your resources.

a Routine is not an Action, but a time bucket for Actions,

Process time Routines should be shorter and more frequent than other Routines. Remember that process time relates to the principle of making first moves: making sure that the people who can be doing work for you have everything they need from you in order to work while your hands are off; and it also relates to the principle of finishing actions: u

What this crush of work demands is not so much a sense of importance—which is how most systems of organization attempt to create order out of chaos—but sequence. It’s not always about doing the so-called important thing first. It’s about ordering our Actions within time to get the important Missions accomplished. What’s the first thing I need to do

recipes are lists of Actions that, in most cases, will happen in a particular sequence and often have sub-Actions.