From the course: Productivity Principles to Make Time for What’s Important

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Set a highlight for each day

Set a highlight for each day

- [Jake] It all starts off with that idea of setting a highlight. And so again, it's starting off in the morning, perhaps for some people they do it the night before, my co-author John does it the night before. But it's looking at the day ahead, and saying, Okay, when this day is over, let's say somebody says, "Oh hey Jake, what was the highlight of your day today?" I should design that, I should in advance figure that out so that I make it happen, I make it as good as possible. I find that actually it's pretty easy for people to get into the zone where they can just make a gut decision about what this highlight is, but at first it's assessing, is there something that's really important to me? Maybe it's not urgent, maybe there's nobody begging for it, but it's this project at work, perhaps it's really I know it's important and it could easily get pushed aside. So maybe it's something from work. Or maybe it's something…

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