How to make your life easy

Design your day to ensure you get all of the essential things done. A question I ask every morning:

• What is the most important thing I need to do today?

I complete that thing before doing anything else, even checking emails.

Have a clear vision of what ‘good enough’ looks like. You should be striving for ‘good enough’, not ‘perfect’. Perfect does not exist.

Find a clear path. Clarity is more powerful than you might think. When you become clear on what needs to happen, progress starts to flow.

It’s like you are enabling your mind to execute what you want. Create a buffer for the unexpected, as things happen throughout your day that you don’t plan for; traffic, a phone call, an ‘urgent’ email. Include time in your schedule to deal with the unexpected.

Relax. ‘No pain no gain’ is nonsense. You do not need to go harder to achieve better results. Relaxing and scheduling time off enables you to spend the necessary energy on the important things you have to do.

Do not do more today than you can recover from today.

You always have a choice. Figure out what is essential and you can eliminate the non-essential. There are ways to accomplish more by doing less.

Can you have more than one priority? Focus every day on what is important right now. If you are clear on what the most important thing is each day, it changes your focus.