Starting With A Plan...

For years I diligently kept a To Do list, but it was too easy to just pick the easiest thing to do next, rather than the most important.

Then I spent a decade with my e-mail Inbox as my to do list, but that just meant that I was giving control of my time to the next ping.

I also tried just ‘going with the flow’, but rarely ended up getting much important work done.

For so many years, I never understood the power of starting each day with a plan, but now I realise that my most productive days are the ones where I intentionally decide what needs to get done in advance. I still get distracted, but at least I now know what from…