Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week

How you intend to take what you learned from your previous week and do better next week Your bigger-picture goals (in a short bullet-point list as a reminder of your “why” and “end” goals) Your proximal goals (things you’re immediately working toward over the next one to six months) Specific to-dos you must finish the following week (including plan

Predetermine a course of action. Lay out your goals. Adjust your priorities. Notify key personnel. Allow time for acceptance. Head into action. Expect problems. Always point to the successes. Daily review your plan.

2. Start with your goals. If you start by identifying the things you really want to accomplish in the next year, you can plan your tasks so that you are doing things each day to further those goals along. Let’s say you have three long-term goals—each day, choose a task from your list that will move you closer to those goals. This will ensure that you

Here’s how it worked: Before a day of boat work, we’d sit down with our Might-Do List and talk about everything we could do.