I imagined the utility of walking into a physical, three-dimensional to-do list and mood-board every day.

As you develop your own system to manage Action Steps, you will want to make it “sticky.”

every Action Step belongs to a project and you have your projects spread across a spectrum of how you wish to allocate your energy—then you will have clear direction on which Action Steps you should do first and how you should budget your time.

Assign a leader.

Committal Benefits represent the increased likelihood of others to take a risk of their own—financially or with their reputations—to support your projects.

As you decide where to focus your precious energy, visualize all of your projects along a spectrum that starts at “Extreme” and goes all the way down to “Idle.” How much energy should your current projects receive?

“Rules of Circles,”

Action Steps are specific things you must do to move an idea forward.

What this means is that, regardless of your industry, your professional life is becoming more nomadic, digital, and flexible. But as a wise sage once said—and what every small-business owner knows all too well—“total freedom means total responsibility.”