Résumé: Under 30 minutes, optimize your upcoming day and identify your potential triggers for less stress and more results
Résultat principal: Higher clarity on what TO DO and what NOT DO for your upcoming day (more clarity, motivation, focus on value, less procrastination, stress, doubts)
Principaux avantages: Your day is less stressful and your time is more focused on value and enjoyable experiences
Prochaines étapes: Apply this habit in the morning or at least 8 times in the next 14 calendar days then decide to adjust/anchor/drop
Durée: 25-30 minutes.
Public cible: Anybody willing to reduce stress and anxiety and enjoy their days more
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Revue hebdomadaire
Conseils pour fixer des objectifs réalistes et atteignables, même dans des environnements à haute pression.
“Time and Priority management” is on most of our client’s self-development plans; when we ask how they prioritize their days, we get mixed answers like “I just go by my inbox”, “I think of it during my commute”, ” I read my TO DO”, “I go by my calendar”… We also hear from most of them things like “I work too many hours”, “I do not spend enough “Strategic” time”, “I should have said NO to that or him”, “I feel anxious, stressed too often”….
After:
The Daily Review is a process that in less than 30 minutes per day helps you plan your day by preparing all the different parts of you that will be in power during your day: of course your Rational part but also your Emotional and Reptilian parts (the ones in charge under trigger or pressure or with key stakeholders). By clarifying your TO DOs from your NOT DOs, this process adjusts your day to your capacity and your priorities but also to the unknown (20-40% for most of us) while sharing visibility with others for notice and alignment. Most clients using this process report after a few weeks having saved between 4 and 6 hours per week; what would you possibly do if all your Friday Afternoons were off? 🙂
After reading your Weekly Priorities and your Calendar (today and tomorrow)
Adjust timeslots (label, duration, time, and color)
Check: no overlap + buffer/breaks timeslots (especially before potential triggering events)
5m: Read/Flag emails (but DO NOT answer them yet)
5m: Prepare your meetings/priorities for the day:
For TO DO:
reframe expectations until 1) aligned with others’; 2) achievable in the time available; 3) under your exclusive control; 4) you feel no stress or potential trigger
communicate to others for enough visibility/alignment/notice (to maintain trust and credibility)
For NOT DO:
commit to what you will NOT DO and assess how your guts feel
decide the best communication strategy (to maintain trust and credibility; key if you are triggered):
cancel, delegate, reschedule, rescope…
communicate to others for enough visibility/alignment/notice
Start reading or answering emails (as they are others priorities, not yours and are likely to trigger you)
Skip the review or the emotional side of it (as the emotions will uncover your potential triggers which are your main time stealers)
Skip the NOT DO tasks (as they create many triggers and often the belief that “I am not good enough if I don’t do it”)
Example
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Your next 2 weeks steps
Start NOW or schedule your first try:
Apply TO DO right away (<30 minutes)
Once done, decide your commitment for the next 2 weeks
How are you feeling right after? Compared to before? What was the value for you?
What to adjust for you to commit for 2 weeks?
Visualize the next time you apply it and how you would like to feel
Celebrate that you have tried something new
Build your habit (-> more practice -> more results)
Model: After [OTHER CURRENT HABIT] and at/when [TIME], I will [NEW HABIT] in [LOCATION].
Example: When I sit at my desk for the first time in the morning, I set a timer for 25 minutes, I visualize myself finishing my Daily Planning Review and feeling much clearer, excited, and less stressed about the day.