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Daily Goals and Task Prioritization

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We study historical figures and look for common themes to achieving success in their life stories. 

 

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Daily Goals and Task Prioritization Overview

  • Daily goals are directly related to your big goals that you have planned.  These daily goals are incremental steps to your goal achievement.  They should be the priority.
  • Tasks related to your daily goals should be prioritized. Otherwise the small tasks may overshadow the big accomplishments.  

Remember: Being busy and being productive are two very different things.

  • At the beginning of each day write down your daily goals. (These should be related to your big vision goals)
  • Write down tasks, prioritize, and complete the tasks related to your daily goal.
  • Track how you spend your time. Use a 24 hour daily calendar to write down how you spent your time. (Alternatively, use a digital form of a calendar for tracking your time.)
  • At the end of each day review what tasks you did not complete.   Identify the reason why you did not complete these tasks and make plan to avoid this in the future.

Insights from Historical Figures

  • Do not hurry.  Think through everything as you are completing it.
  • Task completion is different from goal achievement, focus on the goal.
  • Have specific daily goals. Do not get distracted from achieving your goal.
  • If needed, adjust the steps towards the goal achievement.
  • Set daily goals
  • Hold every hour in your grasp
  • Prioritize your tasks
  • Take action, do not procrastinate
  • Take control of your time
  1. Accept nothing as true unless you proved it beyond doubt = Think Big and Set Goals
  2. Divide problems into smaller parts = Divide the Goals Into Achievable Steps
  3. Solve problems by moving from simple to difficult = Prioritize and Complete These Steps
  4. Recheck the reasoning = Reflect and Review

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Daily Goals and Task Prioritization Quotes

Confucius Quotes on Daily Goals and Prioritization

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don’t adjust the goals,
adjust the action steps.
Confucius
There must be a lot to see along the byways, but do not wander off, because you might get bogged down if you have to journey a long way.
Confucius
Don’t try to rush things.
Don’t look to small gains.
If you rush things, you won’t reach your goal.
If you look to small gains, you won’t be able to accomplish the important tasks.
Confucius

Seneca Quotes on Daily Goals and Prioritization

Certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach. The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness.
Seneca
You will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.
Seneca
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca
Hold every hour in your grasp
Seneca
Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s.
Seneca
While we are postponing, life speeds by
Seneca
Nothing … is ours, except time.
Seneca
What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity,—time!
Seneca
I cannot boast that I waste nothing, but I can at least tell you what I am wasting, and the cause and manner of the loss;
Seneca

Rene Descartes Quotes on Daily Goals and Prioritization

Divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.
Rene Descartes
Conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.
Rene Descartes

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