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Ass-Kicking Email – The #1 reason you’re not finishing your daily goals
Hey,
Two things this week:
1. New Implementation Guide
2. The #1 Reason You Don’t Reach Your Daily Goals
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Implementation Guide: Remember Formulas
To get this guide, just go to the CONTENT page under MONTH 9:
Remembering formulas can be tricky. Here I discuss two methods: the
first, and one I recommend as a starting point, is by “reading” the
formula and truly understanding it.
The second is a hack that can support the first by using the peg
method to memorize formulas if they are too complex to remember by
theory alone.
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Why Your Daily Goals Aren’t Getting Done
Many people have told me their number one problem with weekly/daily
goals is that they never finish all their daily goals.
The biggest reason is simply: you are trying to do too much stuff.
Many people who are new to this format of daily timechunking haven’t
yet built up the self-awareness of how much they *actually* do on
a typical day. As a result, they set impossible to-do lists while
believing that they are plausible.
When they fail at those impossible lists, they beat themselves up.
Here’s a better solution: run a time audit first.
Before you set your daily goals list, write down on a sheet of paper
every fixed time commitment you have. As an example:
8:30-10:00 – Morning Class
12:30-1:00 – Meet with Adviser
7:00-9:00 – Meet with friends at pub
These are the things you don’t have flexibility with *when* you
do them.
Next, create scheduled time slots for all of your daily goals that
you do have time flexibility on. Our example changes to:
8:30-10:00 – Morning Class
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10:00-11:00 – Reading for Psychology
11:00-12:00 – Homework assignment
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12:30-1:00 – Meet with Advisor
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1:00-2:00 – Lunch
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2:00-3:30 – Gym
3:30-4:00 – Shower
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5:00-6:00 – Dinner
6:00-7:00 – Flow-based afternotes
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7:00-9:00 – Meet with friends at pub
When you take this approach you see how much can actually fit into
your day. I typically offer two sub rules for making sure this
approach works:
>For any task over 30 minutes, add 15 minutes to each end. This is
the time usually wasted getting into a workflow and breaks after
finishing.
>For any stretch of work over 3 hours, add an extra 30 minutes for
random breaks you may take.
>Don’t forget to include meals, regular habits and commuting as
part of the schedule.
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Once you do this, you’ll be able to see what a realistic daily goals
list is, since you’ve simulated how it might actually be executed.
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