Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi

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

To make a goal more believable, I do not mean you need to understand all the steps of how you are going to get there. All you need to do is know that, somehow it is possible. You just need to feel that it is believable that you could somehow achieve it. That’s enough of a start.

work today if you have the opportunity, but which you probably will not get to till later this week or next; and the optional Target Now tasks (used in Level 2 and 3 templates), which are your most important Opportunity Now tasks, tasks you would very much like to do today

It is said that vision can create worlds; that is almost a cliché these days, but it is nevertheless true, because a profound vision can, at a minimum, create your world, the one you experience.

What I propose is that you will actually “seed” those spinning thoughts with a short segment of purposeful focus on your goals each day. In general it means reviewing—reading and picturing—your Now Goal statement each day, and getting your vision of the goal activated in your subconscious mind. By doing this, your habits of background thought start

Again, I want to mention and emphasize that this is an urgency-based management system, not an importance-based one. It’s not that importance is not important; it’s just that attempting to use importance as your primary decision tool in an urgency-based office environment usually leads to failure.

Second, since you are working with next actions, they tend to be small tasks. Small tasks are more efficiently worked off a list than as individual appointments because our duration estimates for small tasks are usually off. This leads to inefficient completion, as you will fill the allotted time even if less time is really needed. It is much more

Over and over again, people have said that what you put your attention on grows in your life, so one way to help achieve goals is to focus your attention (in certain ways) on your goals.

Many businesspeople find that they get excellent connected intuitive periods just by taking a little think-time. Gay Hendricks in his book The Corporate Mystic recorded the results of interviews with many corporate CEOs, who said that simply spending some time thinking every day helped greatly. Many of them had a remarkably similar approach of taki