Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

Here’s an example so you can see it in action.

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

limit my tasks to what I call my Daily Big 3.

The daily review is designed to make that connection between goals and tasks. As I scan the list, I look for relevant next actions. I ask myself the question: What is it that I could do today that would move me down the field toward the goal? I’m connecting my goal list to my task list.

It is hard enough to see what is already there, to remove the many impediments to a clear view of reality, but Steve’s gift was even greater: he saw clearly what was not there, what could be there, what had to be there. His mind was never a captive of reality. Quite the contrary. He imagined what reality lacked, and he set out to remedy it.

gratitude reminds us we have agency.

Pretty soon we’re in the messy middle, doubting if we have the strength to make it to the other side—or maybe why we started in the first place.

The first way gratitude makes us resilient is that it keeps us hopeful.

“Why is this goal important to me personally? What’s at stake both positively and negatively?”