Activities that you can uniquely do or add value to because of your position or expertise and that move a project forward. While there are a lot of ways you could be spending your time, there are a certain number of activities that you are probably the best person for. Maybe it’s because of your experience, or because you are the one most familiar

Brilliance, on the other hand, is about rising to the occasion, seeing clearly and incisively to the core of the problem, and identifying great solutions quickly.

One hour, predictably scheduled, no exceptions and no violations. It’s an appointment with yourself, a commitment to spend uninterrupted time on generating new ideas, not working on old ones.

Are there important principles in your life that are being neglected and need to be revisited? Are there projects that you’ve always dreamed of pursuing but can never find the energy to get moving on? Now is the time to get these on paper and to start analyzing what can be done over the next quarter to initiate them.

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” —Alan Alda

If you want to thrive, you need to systematically engage with other people, in part to be reminded that life is bigger than your immediate problems.

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play....

Structure, on the other hand, is the undergirding platform that gives you enough stability to feel free taking risks. It gives you a sense of mastery over your process.

it’s important to be able to identify the red-zone activities that will really make a difference and generate forward momentum during the particular season you’re in.