Make a daily “focus area.” About ten months after launching our online productivity application, Action Method Online, a user suggested to me that our team create a special “focus area” within the application to which you could drag up to five Action Steps—from any project—that you wanted to focus on today. This arrangement suggested that, regardle

The more you can narrow each effort down to one goal at a time, the less confusion and scattering of purpose you will have.

Make a list of the top 25 actions you should take during the next three months, ordered from the most impactful to the least. Then, select the top 5 items: these become your to-do list. Finally, select the bottom 20 items: these become your not-to-do list. You are not allowed to work on your not-to-do list until the to-do list is completed. Without