How to Run Your Day

To Win Your Day

Part 1: Keep your promises

Successful people value consistency and structure
Unproductive people don’t keep to the promises they make to themselves, they tell themselves they will do something and don’t do it. This creates a HUGE sub-conscious toll on your mind, makes your mind think you’re not trustworthy
Small wins over time create a huge momentum

Part 2 : Simplify your to-do list

It’s ironic how to-do lists have made us so overwhelmed instead of helping us
- They have become ‘Should do, Would do lists’
How to structure your To-Do?
1. Your to do list has to be your must-do list of the day
  - How do you know what needs to be done?
    - #1 What needs to be done this week?
    - ^ What are my projects/goals?
  - What deliverables do I have this week
    - These deliverables are something you can show to someone
2. Next you consider your current reality in-terms of what time you need to dedicate to other commitments
  - Meetings, Coaching Calls, Family-Time etc.
3. Create the list for the day (Allocate specific time for each task)
  - Give tasks the attention, focus & respect they deserve
  - Most important task is the first thing in the day
  - Adding a time helps you in two ways
    1. Helps you figure out whether the plan for the day is realistic
    2. Task duration should match your concentration capacity
New To-Do List
- Short
- Specific
- Realistic
- Manageable

Part 3 : Improve your mornings

Setting up the day for success if very important
Core elements for morning routine
- Hydration
- Meditation / Gratitude
- Exercise/Stretching
At the end of the routine, look at your to-do list from last night & visualize yourself going through that day *VERY POWERFUL
- See yourself effortlessly doing these things and accomplishing your to-do list
- Will help you increase the odds of success by anticipating obstacles & finding synergies

Part 4: Decide how you will show up

When people create to do’s, they forget their to be’s
Habits/Behavior (Example: During this day, I want to be calm to storms. During this day, I want to be sociable. During this day, I want to spread positivity)
Replace impulse with intention
- Physicality
- Emotional Level
- How you want to be before a task
Make a separate list of how you want to show up on a particular day

Part 5: Execute like a champion

Quick Summary of what you need to do
1. Creating short, specific, realistic and manageable to-do list
2. Visualization of the to-do list
3. Set intentions for how you will show up for that day
#1 Rule: Execution Mode
- No more doubting or judging that list
- EXECUTE THAT LIST THAT DAY, THERE IS NO OPTION. Keep your promise to yourself.
- New way of thinking
  - Old Thinking: Pick task and define how much time it will take to complete
  - New Thinking: Set a time and define how much of your task you can accomplish
#2 Rule: This or nothing
- If you get distracted, you remind yourself this or nothing & go back to that list
- You do what you said you would do
Pro Tip: If you have doubt/trouble with starting a task, clarify what the outcome or deliverable of doing that task will be
- In the beginning of the task, spend 1-5 minutes in setting intention
- At the end of the hour take a 10 minute break
- It doesn’t matter how far you come, what matters is that you spend the entire time on a task
Best way to beat procrastination is deciding what the next step is

Part 6 : Manage your energy

Part 7: Resist the urge

Sources of distraction
- Ourselves
- Other people
  - If someone pulls your attention, for a few minutes think where you left off and make a little note where you can pick up the task
When working on a focused task and something comes up resist the urgency of responding to it
- Resist that urge and write the thing down somewhere
Pro Tip: Putting notifications to put yourself back on track
- Make a reminder when you know you feel less energetic/productive “Am I doing what I am supposed to do?” Or “How is my energy right now”

Part 8 : Call it a day

If you struggle with ending your day well, tell yourself to get everything done by a specific time when you will stop working & commit to that time.
Pro Tip: Set a routine to run every time at the end of your work-period to end it
- Review the day (15-20 minutes) & Catch up on these tiny things that need to be done
  - Look at the things that didn’t get done/ people you had to reach out to/ email you had to send out
  - See if these things can be completely removed

Part 9 : 4 simple-improvement questions

Ask these questions at the end of the day
1. Did I do what I promised myself to do?
2. Did I get work done that was relevant or did I just do busy work?
3. What helped me get stuff done? (Behavior, Habits, Thoughts)?
4. What do I need to do to improve?
Put the things that you didn’t actually plan but ended up doing intuitively doing in your to-do list so that you can look back to them

Part 10 : Summary

Keep to your promises
Upgrade your ‘To-do List’ (Only the stuff you must do)
Visualize your day in the morning
Define how you will show up during the day
If you are feeling low energy, figure out what’s draining you and work on it
Resist urgency by writing down impulses and anchoring where you left off to get back
Track yourself at the end of the day