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Professional
Most Important Tasks (MITs)
Pick three tasks that make today a success regardless of anything else, and finish them before noon.
Administrative
Most Important Tasks (MITs) for the Day
Define 3 tasks before opening any app — this is what success looks like today.
Leadership
Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
Pick 1-3 goals max that create real difference, ignore the rest for 6 months.
Professional
Most Important Tasks
3 morning tasks = day succeeded.
Administrative
Advanced Eisenhower Matrix
Sort your week's tasks into four quadrants: urgent-important, important-not-urgent, urgent-not-important, neither.
Administrative
Three Most Important Tasks (MITs)
Before starting each morning, write three tasks that, alone, would make the day a success.
Parenting
The Two Most Important Minutes — Reunion Ritual
The first two minutes after any separation (school, work, travel) shape the relationship's quality more than hours after.
Digital & AI
2FA on Every Important Account
Email + bank + social + cloud: 2FA required. SMS is weak — use Authenticator app or physical key.
Administrative
Advanced Eisenhower Matrix
Sort 20 tasks from your list into only two quadrants: important-not-urgent and important-urgent.
Professional
Eisenhower Matrix
Sort tasks on urgent/important axes and treat each quadrant with its rule.
Professional
Inverted Pyramid
In news writing: most important first, important next, extra last — reader gets it even if stops mid-way.
Professional
Eisenhower Matrix
Sort your tasks into four quadrants in ten minutes to know exactly what to do now, defer, delegate, or drop.
Professional
Single Targeted Takeaway
Each presentation = one takeaway only. Not 3, not 5. One.
Psychological
Last Day Reflection
Simple morning question revealing what was postponed and shouldn't be.
Professional
Decision Journal
For every important decision, log: situation, options, expectation, reason — review after 6 months.
Administrative
Monthly Decision Journal
Log every important decision with your prediction; review monthly for calibration accuracy.
Leadership
Stop-Doing List
Instead of a "start-doing" list, build a "stop-doing" list: what activities to cease to free energy for the most important?
Leadership
Storytelling with Data for Leaders
Turn one important number into a 3-act story (situation, turn, outcome) instead of a slide crowded with figures.
Leadership
Identifying Informal Authority Holders
Who is actually consulted before any important decision, even without the formal title? Find them before launching a major change.
Leadership
Inclusive Meeting Design (Async Options, Rotating Facilitation)
Add an asynchronous written channel to every important meeting, and rotate the facilitator role among team members — meetings stop being monopolized by one communication style.
Parenting
Free Play Priority
Protect one hour daily of unstructured free play — it's your child's most important school.
Digital & AI
In-Person Priority Over Digital
For every 3 important digital chats with someone, schedule one real meeting.
Digital & AI
AI-Assisted Negotiation Preparation
Before an important negotiation, use AI to simulate the other side's likely responses and rehearse your replies, not to write a script you read verbatim.
Digital & AI
Family Digital Legacy Planning
Document a list of your important digital accounts and who can access them if something happens to you — account chaos after death compounds grief.
Professional
Notification Detox
Disable 90% of phone notifications in 15 minutes and reclaim two hours of focus each day.
Administrative
One Number Per Role
Each team member: one number owning their core responsibility this quarter.
Leadership
Message Discipline: 3 Points No More
In crisis, only 3 points per message. Audience can't absorb more. Repetition builds understanding.
Leadership
Managing a Boss Who Is Never Around
When your manager is consistently unavailable, request a fixed weekly "decision window" instead of waiting for a spontaneous moment that won't come.
Parenting
Supporting a Teen Through a Friendship Breakup
A teen's friendship breakup can hurt like a romantic one — don't minimize it with "you'll find other friends."