Recounting the things that made us miserable one day doesn’t help us enjoy our workday more tomorrow.

A better strategy is to actually address the negative feelings we have.

Most of us manage our time the same ways: by writing to-do lists and prioritizing the items on those lists, by assessing the relative urgency and importance of our tasks.  The third criteria, the “time multipliers”, should emphasize significance: Rather than asking “What’s the mo...