3 MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME

To set yourself on the right track, ask yourself those two critical questions: (1) What are the three most important things I need to get done tomorrow? and (2) What is the single most important task I must get done? The questions work within your brain’s “channel capacity” to give you direction and prioritization in manageable doses.

That’s not to say the process is going to be easy or pain-free. If you want to be extremely successful, you have to commit to doing things that many people aren’t willing to do. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

THE PERFORMANCE MENTALITY

experience, those who enjoy the most success are the ones who do the best job prioritizing the day’s activities and accomplishing the most important tasks—not the greatest number of tasks.

2 CHOOSE WISELY

But when the focus is only on results, you aren’t necessarily building the actual skills you need to be successful. You aren’t really learning the whys and hows that produce those results, which makes it hard for you to pull yourself out of a slump—and adds pressure you don’t need.

Recognizing seduction is such an important part of avoiding it. Anytime you catch yourself saying, “I can’t do my most important tasks today because . . . ,” or, “I don’t need to do my most important activities today because . . . ,” you know you are entering the seduction zone.

ORGANIZE TOMORROW TODAY