The Importance of Scheduling

Rather than planning your time, plan your goals. Ignore specific timelines and instead focus on progressing toward your key goals.

For example, if you want to be President, you might choose to volunteer for local political activities, as opposed to taking a high-paying job in the private...

 Set aside time to create order:

• Do any task that can be finished in less than one minute, without delay.
• Make a list of all the tasks you’d like to accomplish, and once a week, for just one hour, steadily work on these chores.
• Every time you transition from one stage t...

Goals give you a destination and a vision to work toward. When you know where you want to go, you can manage your priorities, time, and resources to get there. Goals also help you decide what's worth spending your time on, and what's just a distraction.