Look At Your Goals While You’re Working
Every week, I’m making the same mistake.
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Sunday: Think, write goals for the week.
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Monday-Saturday: Check them at the end of each day. Plan tomorrow.
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Sunday: Most goals were totally ignored.
Some of the ignored goals/tasks/objectives are not long-term. Some are 15-minute actions but the 168-hour week passed and they’re not done. Often, I would just do them while I was planning next week.
Why did I get this done right now, but I didn’t do it during the week like I planned?
Reason: I was actually looking at my goals.
Checking your goals at the end of the day and the end of the week is like checking a map only before you start driving. Like a map, you need the goals visible while you’re working.
If I set something as “Important” then I should be looking at that goal as I’m working.
Check your actions second by second, not day by day, and you’ll either get it done or know the real reason it’s not possible right now. (Maybe, really, you’re dependent on someone else and can’t continue now.)
Checking goals while working is actually a new habit. Oddly enough, it didn’t really feel natural, but I got way more done and there were no surprises at the end of the week so I’d advise trying the same.