Determine the foremost meaningful tasks in your work and life. Use the Rule of 3 on a daily and weekly basis.

Ideas, tasks, and insights only have value when you capture and then act on them. Keeping notepads everywhere has helped me hold on to a ton of them.

might sit down and make a plan to change those triggers. For example, if the trigger is: Boring: I go to my favorite café for an afternoon on Saturday to do my taxes over a fancy drink while doing some people watching. Frustrating: I bring a book to the same café, and set a timer on my phone to limit myself to working on my taxes for thirty minutes — and only work for longer if I’m on a roll and feel like going on. Difficult: I research the tax process to see what steps I need to follow, and what paperwork I need to gather. And I visit the café during my Biological Prime Time,