Get Remarkably Organised

When you keep up the habit you’re trying to ingrain, giving yourself a treat that will make you happy provides a mood-boosting pat on the back. You like the feeling of that pat on the back, and are even more motivated to earn the next one.

Tony Robbins states that one of his biggest learnings has been to never leave the scene of setting a goal without doing one thing to get him closer to that goal. It might be putting a meeting in his diary or calling a potential mentor to make first contact with them – anything to start some flow. He knows that by taking the very first – and the mos

1. They don’t make you money. 2. They do not move you towards your goals. 3. A number of other people could complete them.

4. Read ten pages of a book. 5. Read the most relevant troubleshooting topic from the next part of this book.

• a pad of the daily to-do list structure I developed and use every day (we’ll chat more about this in Chapter 9) • a weekly meal planner • a Weekly Habits Scorecard (more on this in Chapter 5) • an A5 notebook • my fancy pen • a notepad for random lists/ideas in the kitchen and in my home office.

1. You don’t want to do it Do you actually have to do it?

Scent is a great cue for me. I’m sure you’ve experienced the power of scent to transport you to a specific time or place, or remind you of a certain person. It might be a shampoo you used on a foreign holiday, a certain kind of food cooking or the perfume of a loved one.

1. They make you money. 2. They get you closer to your goals. 3. You are the only person, or one of the most relevant people, to complete them: it’s a unique skillset to you, or you hold certain relationships, or it plays to your strengths.

the meal planning, the structured to-do lists, the task batching, the habit layering – all if it, without exception, is geared at helping my Future Self.