Downside of Daily Highlights

Continuing to follow the advice of Make Time, I’ve been creating daily highlights. However, the one I picked for today was uninspiring. I think my productivity for the day (even on unrelated things) was much lower because I just wasn’t looking forward to the thing I’d decided to make my highlight for the day. I suppose that’s why “the thing you’ve been putting off because it isn’t urgent and it’s boring” isn’t a recommended category for daily highlights. A lesson for next week!

I also intend to try out some of the strategies from the book for sticking to daily highlights next week. The ones from the book that seem most interesting to me:

• The Burner List (What’s on the front burner? What’s on the back burner?)

• Run a Personal Sprint (I do love Scrum).

• Groundhog It (or, “Do Yesterday Again” — keep on a roll with something you found interesting, satisfying, or joyful)