Sometimes your task is so mundane and so far away from being what is normally considered a skill that it’s hard to figure out how to practice it at all; so you have to get creative.

For example, to wake up early without hitting snooze, you should practice waking up. During the day...

Doing the smaller tasks on your list first is often related to putting off the tasks you don’t want to do. 

Instead, tackle the hard task first. Get it done and out of the way. Then you’ll feel much more able to tackle the rest of your to-do list.

• The productivity community follows this philosophy: If it's not in my calendar, it didn’t happen.
• The calendar is the dashboard of our life, letting us visualize our weeks and months.
• Putting things on the calendar is both a to-do list task and a reminder, with t...