How to win a day in 12 steps

1. Start a day, early

• If you want your day to be effective start it early and allow one hour break (for a sleep) between lunch and dinner. This will keep you strong  more hours.
• make a break before you get tired to keep your brain and body fresh.  
• if you feel tired or asleep immediately make a break or short sleep
• find many occasions for short relax

2. Gymnastic

• Do gymnastic to make your body and brain focused from the morning
• Include brain gymnastic exercises

3. Eat the light breakfast

• During many short brakes you can continue eating.

4. No news, no computer

• Do not start a day with radio, the news, e-mails, web-site, radio
• let your brain think on the things you are going to do today

5. Work with paper and pencil, first

• prepare cards (size about: 9 x 9 cm, 4 x 4 inches) and pencil.
• this size will give you some space to write details on the reverse side if needed.

6. Collect fresh ideas

• You woke up with the idea in mind that everyday is a new life.
• Write down, on the front side of card, you think are important and are in your brain this morning.
• Use separated cards for different  things. This can be list of what you are going  to, ideas, problems .

7. Prioritise, group, decompose

• Put card on the desk and move them to group and prioritize
• on the back write more details whenever you have idea.

8. Choose

• Choose what you will focus on today.

9. Do it

• Once you have decomposed what you are going to do start doing it.
• Now you can switch on a computer and do the research that is needed to do the work.

10. Decompose

• For everything that you are going to focus on today use spare cards and proceed with decomposition.
• Examples
• to prepare presentation take a separated card for every paragraph that comes to your mind and put the cards in sequence of presentation.
• when writing a book you probably have a lot cards for higher lever  chapters, so proceed with decomposition 

11. Archive

• take picture of cards and the sequence
• make a log of ideas broken by finding dates for later use

12. Review

• Review several times a day and celebrate every small achievements
• At the end of the day review what you have done