Self-Help

Task Management

Read for 5 to 10 min everyday. It’s better than not reading at all. Prepare a list of books you will want to read this year. You don’t have to stick to the list since you may want to read some other books.
Search “Best Self Help Books.” You can find a list of top 100 most read books on Goodreads.com website.
If you have time, read one fiction and one non-fiction everyday.
Learn to annotate while you read. Check on youtube.com for tutorials to annotate books.
Non-fiction: Read anytime, preferably self-help books in morning and before sleeping.
Fiction: Preferably not in morning or before sleeping.

Before you go to sleep, look at your tasks list for next day and prioritize most important tasks. You know what is coming up and you know what to do. You will not go creating imaginary negative scenarios of things.
When you look at your tasks list in morning, you know what is coming up and you don’t let your mind wander as time keeps moving clockwise.
If you skipped looking at your tasks list for few days or weeks, you know they are there for you to review and get back to it.
There are some important reason you wrote down some tasks, so you have some things to accomplish. If you think those tasks aren’t important or not returning any value, time to update your tasks list!
Think of and use tasks list like a compass to guide you when you are on track or off-road! 🙂

Write down your one important goal.
What do you need to do to reach that goal?
Write down all the tasks you need to complete to reach that goal.
Break down all these tasks in to smaller tasks.
Make these smaller tasks into 10 min tasks. Of course there are exceptions. Like prepping meals. You don’t cook for 10 min and be done with it.:-)
Use your own judgement when completing more than one related tasks per day.
You want to do it everyday till whole project/goal is achieved.
Example – Walking, you don’t want to walk 7 hours in one day to skip rest of the week. You want to walk 1 hour everyday.
Come back to related tasks at a later time of the day/week.
Do the same steps for other goals. Adjust as needed.
Learn your max and min limit.
Learn to be aware of your max limit and how do you design a recovery routine.

Establish a morning wake up routine. See example below.
It takes about 3 to 6 months to get consistent.
So don’t get discouraged if you start to miss few days.
Goal is to get back to it. Do as much as you can daily. If you wanted to walk 1 hour but you found yourself skipping, set your core walking goal to 5 min or even 1 min.
After 1 to 2 months you will start to get consistent as you start to adjust.
Also, avoid urge to do more reps/times. You may think these are so simple and you want to do more.
Of course you can! Goal is to do these everyday consistently. As you go thru weeks you will find yourself adjusting around the day to accommodate these tasks.
There are things that can be done another day, but not your breakfast or even your daily 5 min morning walk/workout. You can not have your today’s breakfast tomorrow. You can not have your today’s lunch tomorrow. You get the point. You need separate your core daily routine from other tasks. You can delegate these other tasks to another time or day or even weeks.