How to choose a primary task for the day to catch the most important and to enjoy life

The first stage of the system "Find the time" - the choice of the Main, the most important task for the day. Next you need to use special tactics to keep the sighting (as in a laser device) focus on this task. We will offer you a whole menu of tricks that allow to win all kinds of distractions in the world, where everything is constantly "in touch." Throughout the day you will be fed with energy, not to let go of the control of time and attention. Finally, you will be engaged in a meaningful way, that is, think about the previous day, making a few simple notes.

Start each day with a choice of focus points

The first step in the "Find a time" - to decide for what you need this time. Every day, you will choose one action to make it a major stake and your calendar. This may be important working task completion e.g. presentations. Or household activity - say, cooking dinner or planting plants in the garden.

Your Home may well turn out to be something so that you do not necessarily should do just

want to made, for example to play with the children or read a book. In this case, it often involves several stages. For example, the completion of the presentation - is writing the findings, registration of slides and rehearsal performances. Make HomePage "the conclusion of the presentation," you promise yourself to perform all process steps.

Of course, the main thing is not only your activity for the day, but the main thing. The question "What will be my main thing in this day?", You are pushing yourself to spend time for the things that are important to youRather than spend it, reacting to other people's priorities. Choosing Home, you are starting to think actively and positively.

We will help you with this, and share your favorite tactical techniques for daily selection of the Main and the release time for its implementation. In addition, you will need to change their attitude to the distractions that may come your way. […]

We want to make every day you started with thinking about that - you hope - it will be in the brightest spot.

Advance imagine how the evening you someone asks: "What do you have today was the most important thing?" Which of the events of the past day, you remember? Hours devoted to some occupation, or joy of achievement you want to relive? This is your main.

Keep in mind: The main thing is not necessarily eaten the day without a trace. Most of us still can not completely ignore incoming messages or refuse to carry out orders boss. However, the choice of the Main gives you a chance to decide how to organize their time, and not let technology, office default settings, as well as other people build your agenda. Let Busy traffic promotes the daily striving for the highest possible performance - we know: reasonable to focus on their own priorities, albeit at the expense of some current affairs list.

Your main endows every day focal point. Studies have shown: Your perception of life is primarily determined not by what happens to you. In fact, you create your own reality, choosing what to look for. Despite the seeming obviousness of this is a very important conclusion. You can redraw time, choosing to concentrate on anything. And your daily main thing - the object of concentration. […]

Criteria for selecting the Chief

Selection of the Chief begins with a question that you are asking yourself: "What I want to do today Chief? "The answer is not always easy, especially if you have only recently started to use the system" Find time". Sometimes before your mind's eye, there is just a lot of important tasks. One encouraging ( "Bake a birthday cake H"), the other face deadline ( "Complete set of slides"), and the third is almost disgust ( "Put Rat-traps in the garage"). How can make a decision? In the Master, we are guided by one of the three criteria.

Urgency

The first criterion - the urgency. What's to do as soon as possible?

Have you ever spend hours digging in the letters and sit in meetings, and at the end of the day suddenly realized that you have not managed to find time for one single thing that really is urgent? We happened here. And very often. Whenever this happens, we feel very bad. Oh, those belated regret!

If you hang on something that desperately needs to be done today, and let it be your chief. Such urgent cases often can be found in the usual list on the day, in the mail, calendar. Look for important projects, which plays an important role due date and which at the same time have average sizes, so to speak (that is, demand is still not ten minutes - but not ten hours).

Your main emergency may be, for example, as follows:

• To formulate an offer and send it to the customer, which expects to receive it before the end of the week.
• I ask the owners of vacant sites and suppliers of food to send you the conditions - for an event that you are organizing on the job.
• catch cook dinner before the arrival of friends.
• Help her daughter finish high school project, which it is due tomorrow.
• Edit vacation photos and upload them to your relatives, who are eager to see them.

contentment

In the application of the second criterion, ask yourself: "What is the main thing will bring me the greatest satisfaction at the end of the day?"

The first strategy is to determine what you need to do. The second leads to focus on what you want to do.

Again, you can start with a to-do list. This time is not focused on the timing and priorities. Use a different approach.

Think about what will bring you satisfaction every possible Main.

It should not apply to the category of emergency. Explore the projects for which you've always wanted to take, but never found the time. Perhaps you have some skill that you want to apply in practice. Or maybe it is a project, a hobby that you want to secretly take before to tell the world about it. For such projects, in spite of their "non-urgent", the wire is extremely harmful.

The correct choice of the Main will help you break the cycle titled "Someday I'll take it over." Here are a few examples of the main things that bring satisfaction:

• Complete the preparation of the new draft of the business plan, which inspires you. Share it with a few trusted colleagues.
• Explore the place where you could spend with his family next vacation.
• Rough sketch out a piece of the next chapter of your novel - 1500 words. […]

Joy

The third criterion - the joy. Ask yourself: "When in the evening I will remember today's events, some of them more than just please me?"

Every hour you need to optimize and debug, so squeeze the maximum efficiency out of it. One of the goals of our system - take you away from the unattainable ideal of very clearly laid out days of life, in which more joy and less discontent unpleasant chores. So, it is necessary to do some things just because you like them to do.

Other Your Joyful Home can sometimes seem like a waste of time: for example, when it comes to how to sit at home with a book, or throw a frisbee with a friend in the park, or porazgadyvat crossword. But we do not think so. You are wasting your time, just in case, if you do not treat him holding deliberately and purposefully.

Joy can be obtained from the Chief of all kinds. Here are some examples:

• Go to the new home to friends.
• Pick up the chords to the new song.
• Lunch with a colleague - a masterful storyteller funny stories.
• Go with your child to the playground.

Listen to your intuition

Then which of the reduced use of strategies in a given day? It seems to us that the choice of the Main is best to trust intuition. It was she who will help determine what to you today optimally - urgent satisfying and joyful.

It is useful to consider how long it would take one or another thing. We advise to choose the main thing on which will leave 60-90 minutes. If the case requires less than an hour, you do not have time to tune in. After one and a half hours to most studies focused It needs a break. Thus, 60-90 minutes - the golden mean. During this time you can manage to do something meaningful and important, not radically reshaping their schedule. We are convinced that applying the tactics described in this chapter and on other pages of the book, you will be able to allocate 60-90 minutes for your main.

At the beginning of the selection process may seem strange or difficult. Do not worry - this is perfectly normal. Gradually you get comfortable, and the choice will be given easier and easier. And remember: absolutely ruin the process of mastering our system is simply impossible. In addition, it is designed for daily use: it did not happen today, it is likely to turn out tomorrow.

Of course, your main thing is not some kind of magic wand. In itself, the decision on what to spend the basic forces in a given day, does not guarantee a successful outcome. But a conscious sense of purpose - a key step on the way to the release of additional time. Selection of the Chief implies focusing on priorities. Thanks to her, you will be able to save time and energy for the really important things, rather than the fact that constantly distracted by other people's bait and respond to other people's demands.

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Read about the other three steps of the system and practical ways to put them into daily life in the book "Find the time".

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