If you're unfamiliar with Stephen Covey's time management system of the four quadrants, let me quickly summarize with this visual:
Now, where you want to spend the most of your time is quadrant 2. This is where the works gets planned and executed.
For the longest time, I have planned out each quarter with my "Top 5" things to do. But I recently discovered that this wasn't enough. Back in college, I had a calendar where I tallied the number of pages I wrote in a single day. I would total that number up each week, and it was my goal to make that number grow each week.
You may not have a top 5 for each day, but even a top 1-3 would make your life run more smoothly. Set up daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and even yearly goals. Each of these is different, and each works a different set of brain muscles.
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