Author Sarah Wilson advises those who slip up on her ‘I Quit Sugar’ program to eat a pork chop. One reason is that the fat and protein in the pork helps to stabilise blood sugar. However, another – and greater – reason is that it gives the person a proactive course of action to deal with the inevitable slip-up.

• a pad of the daily to-do list structure I developed and use every day (we’ll chat more about this in Chapter 9) • a weekly meal planner • a Weekly Habits Scorecard (more on this in Chapter 5) • an A5 notebook • my fancy pen • a notepad for random lists/ideas in the kitchen and in my home office.

Scent is a great cue for me. I’m sure you’ve experienced the power of scent to transport you to a specific time or place, or remind you of a certain person. It might be a shampoo you used on a foreign holiday, a certain kind of food cooking or the perfume of a loved one.

When you experience an organisational slip-up, don’t use it as an opportunity to beat yourself up. Instead, focus your energy on doing one of these things: 1. Do a ten-minute tidy-up of a room in your house or your workspace. 2. Write your to-do list for tomorrow. 3. Go for a ten-minute walk around the block with the express intention of hitting yo

Our journey into outsourcing starts with identifying which tasks in your life are high value and which are low value.

As the designer Tom Ford said, ‘Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.’

4. Read ten pages of a book. 5. Read the most relevant troubleshooting topic from the next part of this book.

When you keep up the habit you’re trying to ingrain, giving yourself a treat that will make you happy provides a mood-boosting pat on the back. You like the feeling of that pat on the back, and are even more motivated to earn the next one.

never leave the scene of setting a goal without doing one thing to get him closer to that goal. It might be putting a meeting in his diary or calling a potential mentor to make first contact with them – anything to start some flow.