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Evernote calendar4/8/2023 ![]() One tip I learned a while back is to limit your daily “must-dos” to two tasks. This can also effectively be done at the end of Friday of the previous week, while certain tasks are fresh in your mind. To plan out my weekly activities, I usually sit down at my computer for 20 mins on Sunday night and visualize what I will accomplish that week. Level #3 – What should I work on this week? Trello also has a native iOS app, which you can download for free. The benefit of Trello for this level of planning is that I can see multiple months in a row, and drag and drop tasks from one month to another if needed. ![]() With Trello, I can create a “board” for each yearly goal, then list each month the mid-level tasks that I should complete that month. For this, I use the excellent free tool Trello. Now, taking these yearly goals, I need to break them down into monthly chunks. Level #2 – What should I work on this month? One of the benefits of using Evernote is that it syncs to the free native iOS app. Focus on the “must-do” goals, the other stuff can wait (or it will work itself in any way because you want to do it). If I listed every possible thing that would be cool to accomplish in a year I would give up on my list pretty quickly once I failed at one of the items, even though it might be a small goal that doesn’t matter to me as much as the others. You will find that one of the keys to completing your goals is to focus on a small number. I also limited myself to a small handful of goals. I don’t want to wait until New Year’s Day just to implement a year plan. You’ll notice in the above screenshot that I have dated my yearly goals from May 2014 – to May 2015. These documents are organized into “Notebooks,” my favorite of which is one I titled “Personal Development.” This is where I put journal entries that I come up with while on a personal retreat or other high-level reflections that I want to be able to reference in the future. To track these goals I use Evernote, which allows me to quickly create and categorize short documents. Earn $50,000 from entrepreneurial projects.I have a goal of items I’d like to accomplish in 1 year. Let’s just rephrase that to “I’m choosing not to make that a priority.” However, let’s not forget that these hours add up, and often we say, at least to ourselves, that we don’t have the time for certain things. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing wrong with watching viral YouTube videos, perusing your favorite magazine, or scanning Facebook. There’s nothing wrong with watching Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Dexter, Walking Dead, or whatever your show of choice might be. ![]() You can get a pilot’s license in 40 (I didn’t). Side Note: Last year I watched a total of 47 hours of Breaking Bad. In a year you could run a couple of marathons, write a book, travel around the world, and learn to ride a unicycle. To answer this question, you need to visualize where you would like to be months down the road. The problem with a tool that handles all levels of planning is that you usually have to drill down or sift through more information than you need to answer the question…what should I be working on? Level #1 – What should I work on this year? Note: I have found it most useful to use a different tool for each “level” of planning, instead of worrying about one tool to rule them all. However, I’ve recently settled on a few tools that are starting to stand the test of time, and I thought I’d take a moment to share them with you. Every time I think that I have it figured out and put a system in place, the smallest change usually sends the system crumbling. I feel that the quest to be productive will last my whole lifetime. ![]()
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