3 Smart Things To Do Today for a Super-Productive Day Tomorrow
A shutdown ritual can help you end your day on a high note.
You can use the same principle to end your day.
Every day, before you end your workday, save a few minutes to process the day. Look at your to-do list and compare what you should have done versus what actually happened. Could you have done better than you did? Did you complete all your high-value tasks?
If you make it a habit to spend a little time
every day planning your day and wrapping up your day on purpose, you will continue to have an amazing day every week.
Harvard Business Review: Why we set unattainable goals
17 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM
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Psychology helps to explain why we re so bad at meeting our goals. Photo / Getty Images
Psychology helps to explain why we re so bad at meeting our goals. Photo / Getty Images
Harvard Business Review Every December, many of us find ourselves scribbling resolutions at the back of our journals or making mental notes on what we hope to achieve in the coming year. And yet, one study suggests that a mere 19 per cent of us achieve those goals, even over the following two years.
There are many reasons for this not knowing how to pursue the goal, a lack of willpower or the choice of vague objectives, for instance, or the role unanticipated external forces (e.g., illness, an economic downturn).