Strong Foundation = Strong Finish
You’ve set your goals, you’ve celebrated 2025, a fresh new year lies ahead of you. What could stop you!?
A shoddy foundation of essentials could very well hamper your plans for a productive 2026. Time to do a “pre-flight check” and make sure that you are set for all the projects that lay ahead.
Having led multiple teams and helping people regularly with personal coaching, I can say that nearly everyone is lacking in “the basics.” The bad news is that means you probably are too. The good news is that the fixes are simple!
Productivity 101: Essential Tools & Systems
Everyone must keep track of 1) Tasks 2) Time and 3) Important information. These are different types of things, and so they require different tools and systems of management.
All of your goals are comprised of things to be done, time to be spent, and information to be applied.
✅ Task Manager
For tasks you need to do.
Do you have a simple process for capturing tasks?
Is there any friction to the process that needs to be removed?
Is it ORGANIZED and AUTOMATED effectively so that you seamlessly know WHAT you need to do, WHEN you need to do it?
Need More Help → Anatomy of a To-Do List
🗓️ Calendar
For time you need to manage.
Do you have a simple process for scheduling your time?
Is there any friction to the process that needs to be removed?
Do you have a relatively standard schedule that you can live by so things are done rhythmically and regularly?
Do you have margin/buffer built in so you don’t get overwhelmed?
Need More Help → Anatomy of a Calendar
🗒️ Notes
For important information.
Do you have a simple process to capture information?
Is there any friction to the process that needs to be removed?
Is information organized and easily retrievable?
Need More Help → Anatomy of a Note-System
Productivity 201: Essential Frameworks
Now it’s time to put those tools to work with this 3-Part Framework! You’ll find that your productivity compounds immensely. It’s as if time has multiplied, because you’re not just rearranging things you need to accomplish (prioritization), you are instead condensing how long things take or eliminating them all together to make space for what really matters.
🔽 The Focus Funnel
Your filter for doing… or not doing, EVERYTHING. 3 simple steps.
Check it out HERE
🏎️ LEAN: Remove Waste + Get to The Value
A methodology for continuous improvement. Just watch the pit-stop comparison video in the link and then conceptualize what that would be like for you or your teams!
Check it out HERE
🗂️ Organization
Learn a 3 step method for ensuring that things get organized, and most importantly, STAY organized.
Check it out HERE
And a Happy New Year!
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Holiday Gift Guide Revisited - Now that the big day has come and gone, perhaps there is something you were really wanting as you set up 2026 to be the most productive year yet.
One series of recommendations not found here was our issue on Health Supplements. Check that out too!
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In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty - Proverbs 14:23
