Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci shares how to create a plan today to maximize tomorrow.
Episode 1484: How to Create a Plan Today to Maximize Tomorrow by Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci on Success Planning
Michael Mehlberg is an entrepreneur and certified agile project manager who specializes in productivity and organization systems. His blog, Modern da Vinci has been called "The Owners Manual to an Awesome Life" and helps high-achieving entrepreneurs master their life and business - crushing their goals, living their passion, and finding purpose, balance, and excellence in all they do.
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optimal living daily. This is optimal living daily episode, fourteen eighty four: how to create a plan to day to maximize tomorrow,
Michael Milburgh of Modern Divinity Don NET, and I'm just em all your very
on personal narrator, I reach you from some the best blogs in the world every single day without was get right to today's post,
and continue optimizing. Your life
How to create a plan today to maximize tomorrow,
by Michael Milburgh of moderate event, she done net disposed.
Is for anyone who wants to get ahead as for any one to one
Stop reacting to and floating through life day by day, hoping for the best? Is there anywhere with much to accomplish
little time to do it. This post is for anyone who wants to focus and thrive yet finds themselves, distracted and unsure of what to do next, but I'm about to online is a method for planning that will give you an edge on your day. Helping you prioritize is that
which is most important. Like Benjamin Franklin who intentionally designed his day with a daily schedule, we can build ourselves as successful life,
one day at a time. Taking ten minutes today to create a plan for tomorrow will give you a head start. Keeping one task boost your
or activity, make the most of your meetings, even those useless, recurring, unavoidable ones and hope you accomplish more planning for tomorrow. Today, many
try a different tools for getting more out of our day. Waking early installing apps, attract time, wasters, setting focused timers and taking frequent breaks, etc.
while useful and despite using them religiously most morning, start slow. We safe coffee and a groggy state, unsure of where to begin our day, gravitating towards brain dead tasks like email or web surfing, distracted by the
dozens of unexpected emails and phone calls and never finding quite enough time to start those important long term projects we close up shop, feeling unproductive and unsure of what was accomplished. The source of these problems is usually the lack of a plan. We planned projects, weddings, vacations and trips to the grocery store, but for some reason,
ever feel a need to plan our day. Surely schedule meetings and have a thought or two regarding what we might do, but mostly we freestyle like a d
applying a set of unfamiliar records? If we had a basic plan for those times, if we had a high level under.
Banning of how we would use each hour an hour day. We will go to bed having accomplished so much more the most
as for people in the world, have a plan not just a plan for big projects, but a plan for the little periods of
I'm that they know will add up in the long run. We
we're done. Hearing this post, you know how to develop a plan tonight that will guide you tomorrow, you'll be able to extract maximum
are you out of each and every hour of your day, your plan will guide you when to attract
in the early hours of the morning when you're willpower is low and it's difficult to think ill. Provide you with a goal to kick start your day and accomplish something while the rest
the world is still waking up. Creating your plan is not complicated
is as simple as filling out an index cards. The planning card.
At the end of each day, we will create a plan for tomorrow filling out a small index sized paper card, with our appointments free time to do list what we are going to accomplish. First things: we should keep in mind the rather
day planning each day may sound time consuming, but using or format is dead, simple and takes no more than ten minutes discarding. These ten minutes are the key to our productivity, the simple, extremely effective way to get a jumpstart to accomplish more and to stay focused throughout your day. The format assemble graven index cards right tomorrow's date, at the top from topped up
bottomless the hours of the day I like to start with early morning, then nine, a dot m, ten, a dot m and so on, Nes, seven, p, dot M and then finally evening glow that right, tomorrow's to dues and leave a few blank lines filling the time slots on your card is the first important exercise while doing this. Thank you in advance about how your day will flow and find a way to make your downtime productive. I like to start by look
My digital calendar in transferring those meetings over to the cart doing so may seem wastefully duplicated, but this is a chance to shot down any notes about the meeting that come to mind,
going into a meeting without understanding what you want to get out of. It is a recipe for failure and the simple stuck into one.
To making your meetings more successful. Benjamin Franklin himself, once said quote by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,
and what was your meetings are? Written down on filled hours will stare at you with contempt? Do not let them those are the hours you ve been filling with meaningless labour on necessarily checking YE male surfing, the web, etc. These are the hours
Going to stuff with useful tasks leave no our untouched wants. Your plan is crammed from morning to evening,
you'll sleep easy, knowing that, even if you do not accomplish everything, will you have done will have far exceeded your output on any given day prior with a full day had you may have some actions that do not properly fit
My calendar know those in the to do tomorrow, section of your planning card at the bottom. Many days you will fall
and those two deals are unfinished actions from your previous day on other
Is there simply ran tasks that come to mind great for filling in free periods of
I'm sure they arise, keep in mind first things. First, finally, Flickr planning hard over. We will use the back for two very important sections. First things first and keep in mind. First, things first is where you list the very first task you will work on. You do not have to finish. You just have to spend some time on. It is perhaps the most important way to kick off your day. Having already thought about higher day will start in what you will do, we give you huge head start
once you get through this first task thrust the day will come easy. Keep in mind is where your list a few important reminders. Do you hear me personal goals? Affirmations, meditations, prayers, birthdays refer
the family or anything else. You want her mind yourself of throughout the day, glancing at the
Every so often can help keep you grounded the inspiring more simply remain.
did you do something important tips. One leave the car on your desk. First things first side up staring at you first thing in the morning. You want to start this task immediately, leaving in plain sight than before keeps you accountable to Europe.
To keep the plan on you at all times its small cars. So she fit nicely in your pocket in between your cell phone and wallet at the very least, leave the card on your desk. In plain sight, you'll find yourself looking to it. When you lose focus, can I figure out what to do next or just need to glance at your next appointment?
planning for success. The most successful people in the world have a plan, a plan for the little birds.
the time that they know will add up in the long run, developing a plan tonight to guide you tomorrow, will jump start your day, you'll be able to extract maximum value out of each and every hour
your plan will guide you and distracted in the early hours of the morning when you're willpower is low, will provide you with a goal to kick start your day, an accomplished something while the rest of the world is still waking up
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