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

Flexible dieting is a great example of this effect in action. Flexible dieting means you get to eat anything you want, as long as it fits into your weekly calorie and macro targets.

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.

Teams help us stop feeling sorry for ourselves and get in the game. Friendly competition is good, and there is enormous power if you can leverage it in the right way. You’ll find an endless supply of motivation and discipline when you’re on a team that pushes you.

“The best way to change long-term behavior is with short-term feedback.” —Seth Godin

“Let’s take five minutes and make a list of twenty things that could create extra time for you. No idea is bad. Just give me everything you can think of.”

sailors are constantly making micro-adjustments to their original plan—not to subvert their plan, but to fulfill it.

Reason #3: A Weekly Approach Offers More Potential Pathways to Your Win

Looking for a lesson or improvement each week is essential.

Suppose you find that (even after optimizing your calendar) you don’t have enough available time to complete your leveraged priority. In that case, it’s time to adjust that goal to something else that’s achievable within the limitations of your week.