📝 Chapter 1: Set the table

• clarity : clear goals and objectives
• Think on paper
• steps
  • Decide exactly what you want
  • Write it down
  • Set deadline on your goal
  • Make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal
  • Organize the list into a plan by priority
  • Take action on your plan immediately
  • Resolve to do something every single day
• The power of written goals
  • Take a paper and make 10 goals
  • Review goals
  • Write on separate sheet of paper set deadline, make plan, take action

📝 Chapter 2: plan every day in advance

• Break down into specific step by step
• Different list for different purposes
  • Create a master list → write down everything you want to do in future, sort later
  • Monthly list → transferred from master list
  • Weekly list → plan your entire week in advance, list under construction as you go through the current week
  • Transfer monthly & weekly lists onto daily list → specific activities that you are going to accomplish the following day
• Tick off items on your list as you complete them
• Raises your self-esteem and self-respect
• Helps to overcome procrastination

📝 Chapter 3: apply the 80/20 rule to everything

• Pareto principle: let say you have 10 list items to do, 2 out 10 taks will worth more than 8 items put together
• Number of task vs importance of tasks
• Focus on activities not accomplishments: resist the temptation to clear up small things first
• The hardest part → to get started
  • Make a list of all key goals in your life today → indicate the 80/20 rules
  • Resolve today that you are going to spend more and more of your time working in few areas
  • Spend less and less time on lower-value activities

📝 Chapter 4: Consider the consequences

• Long term thinking improves short-term decision making