5 min: Top 4 priorities for this month: 

In One month's time, we will be starting the last quarter of 2014.
What are the 4 most important things that need your attention between now and then? 

Write them down and stick them on your computer screen
                - or somewhere that will constantly remind you of what's important this month. 

 

15 min: Attention Map.

  1. Consider the 4 different quadrants of life
  2. Itemise the issues that, this month, need your attention in each quadrant. 
  3. If you could only focus 4 items, which 4 would you choose from across all the quadrants? Circle them. 
  4. Write these 4 down and stick them on your computer screen
                   - or somewhere that will constantly remind you of what's important this month. 

 

60 min: Attention Map + Supporting Structures

  1. Complete steps 1 - 4 as above. 
  2. For each priority item write down the following: 
    1. Who else do you know who shares this priority? Connect with them over this. 
    2. Why is this priority important to you? Visualise yourself at the start of October with 'best case' progress in this area. 
    3. What equipment or information will help you to uphold this priority? Get it. Buy it. If this is a priority this month, then set yourself up for success. 
    4. Where do you feel most 'in the zone' as far as this priority is concerned? Go there. Set yourself up a space there. Hang around there. 
    5. When in the day are you best positioned to engage this priority? When in the week should you be focusing on it? Lock in that time as a fixed appointment. 
    6. How have you advanced this priority in the past? Is this strategy still appropriate in your present context? Tailor-make a strategy for your current reality. 

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