Your Brain Is Limited
So by breaking a larger project down into smaller to-dos, it will be easier for you to identify what step you should take next.
These smaller steps should be written down on a list.
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The main reasons why specific goals are so powerful:
- They force us to make a choice to pursue them and exclude anything that’s irrelevant. This increases our focus.
- They incite effort.
- They inspire us to be more persistent, as we have a clear idea of what success looks like.
- They immediately get our wheels turning on the strategies necessary to attain them.
By breaking down large projects into smaller steps you have the opportunity to receive feedback faster and make adjustments when necessary.
We want to see progress quickly. We enjoy the feeling of crossing something off our to-do list - dopamine is being released.
By breaking long-term assignments down, you open the door to experience more frequent rewards and dopamine rushes which inspire you to keep taking steps forward.
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- Define your goals and write them down.
- Break those goals down into tasks.
- Break those tasks down into the smallest possible subtasks.
- Prioritize your tasks, and delete/delegate tasks you don't need to do.
- Schedule time on your calendar every single day, ideally first thing in the morning, to work on your highest-priority goal task.
- Focus on your goal task during your scheduled time, and work on it until it's complete.
It encourages you to claim your successes and to deflect your failures.
When something good happens, you take the credit, but when something bad happens, you blame it on something out of your control.