you now need to start prioritizing your current and new tasks so that the 20 items left on your Opportunity Now list are your best ones, given current work priorities. You need to shorten it back down to 20 or so. The way to do that was discussed in the Quick Start section; you will move excess tasks to the Over-the-Horizon section until you get to

if we consider everything inside the Workday Now (left of the Now Horizon) separately from everything beyond the Now Horizon, we can start to get a handle on work. Specifically, if the task list we study daily represents only tasks within the Workday Now period, and if we can control the number of tasks we place on that list,

So you’ve categorized your to-do list. Avoided things that don’t fit in with your plan for the year. And made sure that everything on the list reflects where you’ve strategically chosen to spend your time. Excellent. Then you’ve taken your calendar for the day and made hard choices about what you can fit in your limited time. You’ve decided to do t

I rarely put deadlines on the typical small next-action tasks I place on my Now Tasks list? That’s because they are usually smaller steps on the road to a larger outcome, and the larger outcome is the thing that usually has the deadline. Well, a SOC is perfect for this because it is usually the larger thing that I am working toward—it is exactly th