Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi

focusing your attention most productively is your real challenge, not focusing on obstacles for long hours. For example, wouldn’t it be better to spend most of your time focused directly on achieving your positive work goals?

A) Appropriate length B) Descriptive text C) Emotive text D) Always positive E) Written in the present tense

Also, for a given larger outcome, only put the very next action task on your list; don’t enter as tasks all sequential steps to a goal. Remember, your Now Tasks list shows only things eligible to do now. So if you list future dependent steps, you will clutter your list with unusable tasks.

Whatever organization method you use, it needs to be lightweight; that is, it needs to take little effort to keep it in place. Then the payoff will be worth it.

while Vision Goals work at the Create layer, Target Goals, as you will see, work at the Control layer.

Maltz, in his book, explains how during visualization, we’re making a repetitive suggestion to the subconscious mind that is not too different from hypnosis, so that the subconscious mind begins to believe the visualization is true, and starts to act like it is. The subconscious mind then starts to encourage decisions that support the new understan

if we consider everything inside the Workday Now (left of the Now Horizon) separately from everything beyond the Now Horizon, we can start to get a handle on work. Specifically, if the task list we study daily represents only tasks within the Workday Now period, and if we can control the number of tasks we place on that list,

Consider doing this twice a day. As I said, I activate all my goals in the morning while having my morning coffee, and often in the evening I activate my personal goals once again, right before bed.

a way to easily…” statement softened this enough for you, and you are probably fine with this goal now. Just keep the phrase, “What if I found a way to easily…” in the goal whenever you activate it from now on. 4. However, if you still feel a strong doubt about the Now Goal statement, enough that it sucks the energy or enthusiasm out of the goal, t