Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week

1. Is It Related to Your Number One Leveraged Weekly Priority?

A week is large enough to accomplish a great deal, but small enough to generate lots of learning opportunities.

Workflow is an idea that encompasses everything that has to happen for you to get your work done and move the ball forward: the disciplines, the mindsets, the techniques, the technologies, and the systems.

The only sustainable form of accountability happens when your environment boosts your intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is a desire to take action that feels like it comes from deep within you rather than from an external source.

“What worked well this week that I should double down on next week?”

Sailors understand the crucial value of planning. Talk to any seasoned sailor, and they’ll tell you horror stories resulting from a failure to plan: having equipment break and being without spare parts, running into avoidable dangerous weather, or not packing enough critical supplies, among many other scenarios. They also know that no plan can pred

Let’s clear something up before we go on: your priority is not the only thing you’ll do this week. Quite the opposite—it’s probably just one of a thousand things you’ll do! Rather, your priority is the thing, above all others, that must be done. It’s the task that must be put at the front of the line and given the right-of-way. Simply put, if you o

Keller and Papasan make an ironclad case that we should be more focused on making the accomplishment of future tasks easier instead of simply getting as many tasks done today as possible.

Tasks like “clean out the hallway closet” or “learn Swedish” don’t belong on your list until they become your leveraged priority or incredibly urgent.

The second layer of accountability is a buddy.