Plan

Rank your work by its true priority with the Ivy Lee Method:

1. At the end of each work day, write down the 6 most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. 
2. Prioritize those 6 items  n order of their true importance.
3. When you arrive tomorrow, ...

• The Ivy Lee method is a 100-year-old strategy for helping people become more productive at work
• Under the Ivy Lee method, at the end of each night you write down your six most important tasks to accomplish the following day in order of importance.
• The next day, you begin work...

This method involves literally planning out each of your next hours, rather than your whole day.

Start the day by writing a list of what you intend to do over the next hour. Top up the list throughout the day so it always contains approximately one hour’s work.