“Every person that you meet today is fighting their own private battle.”
So forgive each other – even without being asked.
Read the rest at lifehacker.
What does it take to make today a success?
“how can I make tomorrow a truly successful day?”
What would have to happen? And if I missed one of the items, how would it influence the rest of the day and my feeling about it?
Here’s what would be my list:
- Wake at 5am, allowing me ample time to…
- Drink water as soon as I wake (Health / Fitness)
- Pray (Spirituality)
- Plan my day (GTD)
- Get out to the gym or for a run (Health / Fitness)
- Have breakfast and catch up with the news (Health / Fitness)
- Play with our daughter for 30 mins (family)
- Go to the office and have a planning meeting with my team members (Planning / Task Management)
- Do the most important task that moves our business forward (Business success)
- Get to Inbox Zero (Business success)
- Eat a slow, healthy lunch (Health / Fitness)
- Call a friend (Relationships)
- Read a book (personal)
- Spend quality time with my wife (Relationships)
- Practice the guitar / drawing (Learning)
- Process all I collected today (GTD)
- Go to bed at 10pm (Health / Fitness)
All this at be achieved in-between the regular, daily mundane tasks of work and personal life.
Can it be done? Is the list to long? What if I delete a task, how will it reflect on the rest of them? how will it make me feel?
Staying in control daily, weekly & yearly
“requires different things for each. Handling one doesn’t handle the others”
– David Allen
Productivity vs. Time Management
Productivity is less about time management than it is about mind management.
Simple, straightforward, and totally true. Of course the idea applies to just about anything we do that’s more parts procrastination than getting things done. Time is static, and you can’t really do much to manage it. Your mind, on the other hand… that thing can really wander.
GTD (Getting Things Done) is the most effective way I’ve found so far to manage my mind and tasks. It stands on five “pillars,” or steps to getting and staying organized:
- Capture everything. Write it down, record the sound, screenshot, copy text, photograph it or make a video – do anything the capture what’s on your mind – every time.
- Clarify the things you have to do. With every item that you captured ask “whats the next action?”
- Organize those actionable items by category and priority.
- Reflect daily on your to-do list.
- Do.
This short video might help explain the benefits of this to you better than I can do here:
Mind Like Water
– A mental and emotional state in which your head is clear, able to create and respond freely, unencumbered with distractions and split focus. —David Allen
accept all challenges
“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka