Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi

• There is a simple formula for creating Vision Goals, one you should use for all your goals. The elements of this formula are as follows: appropriate length, descriptive and emotive text, always positive, and present tense.

Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich documented a technique he called “ sitting for ideas,” which was similar to this.

Mark Forster’s assertion to write most tasks down instead of doing them makes sense. That can avoid a lot of wasted activity.

It is not a prioritization system based on importance, but it does prioritize the urgency of your work.

Just selectively move more items off that list and onto the Over-the-Horizon list (page 2 of the Workday Mastery To-Do List from Chapter 2), the list you study only weekly.

So the idea is that they are current tasks; you might even call them “as soon as possible” tasks.

This category is only for urgent items that must be completed today. The simple test I provided earlier is this. Ask yourself, “Would I work late tonight to complete this item if it is not finished by the normal end of the workday?”

There are a number of such stories in the book The Intuitive Edge by Philip Goldberg about businesspeople whose nearly psychic predictions routinely give them a business edge.

We are transforming our company to be a healthier, stronger, and profitable company in a way that increases shareholder value, all the while expanding the number of customers that can enjoy our products. To do this, we anticipate a 15 percent sales increase, maintenance of profit margins, and stable or better measures of quality and customer satisf