1. Start a day, early
4. No news, no computer
5. Work with paper and pencil,
first
6. Collect fresh ideas
7. Prioritise, group,
decompose
8. Choose
9. Do it
10. Decompose
11. Archive
- 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
- Do gymnastic to make your body and brain focused from the morning
- Include brain gymnastic exercises
- During many short brakes you can continue eating.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 .
- Put card on the desk and move them to group and prioritize
- on the back write more details whenever you have idea.
- Choose what you will focus on today.
- 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.
- 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