Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi

So somewhere between one and two weeks is this threshold of work concern. I call it the Workday Now

if you set any number to reach and it measures any aspect of your performance, that’s a Target Goal. In general, Target Goals are established for planning, for accountability, to track progress, and to add focus.

Note that each of the examples above has a verb in it; you really want to identify the action. Specifically you want to identify the very next action needed to achieve an outcome—each of these represents a next step, not a broader topic.

a company called OneCoach, founded by the authors of the book I referenced earlier called The Answer. In that book, John Assaraf and Murray Smith lay out a very complete set of steps for creating and activating your business vision. Many of their visualization steps are derived from nearly all the same sources I used to create my goal-spinning tech

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment [the Now] that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence.

So the idea is that they are current tasks; you might even call them “as soon as possible” tasks.

Significant Outcomes,” or “SOCs” for short. These are usually the bigger deliverables you want to create (for example, a large report) and you are actively working on, in between meetings and other ad hoc tasks. They might also be a less tangible accomplishment (a cleaned-up and organized office, for example) that you would like to get done as soon

Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich documented a technique he called “ sitting for ideas,” which was similar to this.

Therefore I recommend the following approach for paper users. In your mail system, create a new mail folder, or category, or tag, and call it Task Mail. Then, when you get an e-mail with a task, copy the e-mail into that folder (or set the category or tag) and attach to it a sequential task number (you can easily see the next number by glancing at

You need to break that e-mail information-noodling habit and use other, healthier ways to get the same result. First, you can decide to no longer use frequent reading of e-mail as a way to change the pace; there are other and better ways to do that. Second, you can easily stay in the loop by checking e-mail only a few times a day; events rarely unf