ORGANIZE TOMORROW TODAY by Jason Selk & Tom Bartow | Core Message

[Music] i recently read organize tomorrow today by dr jason selk and tom bartow john wooden arguably the greatest coach of all time led the ucla basketball team to 88 straight wins and seven straight national championships when asked how he did it he said if you want to extend a winning streak forget about it if you want to break a losing streak forget about it forget about everything except concentrating on hard work and intelligent planning day-to-day preoccupation with wins championships and other future results is a waste of time because it steals attention and effort from the present and squanders it on the future wooden knew that if he intelligently planned each practice and his players gave their best effort which he measured by how intensely they ran to open errors on the court they need not worry about winning because the wins would naturally come their way to quote the hall of fame football coach bill walsh if you do your job the score takes care of itself your job no matter if you're in school running a business or working for a business is to maximize your time each day and you do that by organizing tomorrow today each day the things you want to do are like basketballs in a giant bin when the day starts you grab a ball dribble it to the basket and lay it off the backboard into the net for a point the bin at center cord contains dozens of brown basketballs and three rainbow colored basketballs the brown basketballs represent most hats and they're worth one point the rainbow basketballs represent your most important tasks and they are worth 10 points each organizing tomorrow today is like sneaking onto the court before the game starts digging through the bin and finding the three rainbow colored basketballs and putting them on top so they are the first basketballs you grab when starting the game which allows you to maximize the amount of points you can score in a given game the game is like most productive work sessions and then it could end at any moment some days you'd have just an hour or two in the morning to do your most important tasks before getting bombarded by meeting requests urgent emails and unexpected problems by identifying your three most important tasks before you wake up you waste zero time getting to work on those high value tasks before you get sidetracked by external demands and when you identify your most important tasks a day in advance you give your brain the opportunity to simulate doing your most important tasks and think of creative strategies to complete those tasks while you sleep but if you wait until the evening to prioritize you may not do it because you'll be too tired to make critical decisions the ideal time to prioritize tomorrow is today just before you eat lunch before you take your first bite of lunch take five minutes to write down the three most important things you need to do tomorrow and put a star beside the one most important task you must get done by writing down your three in one on paper your three most important and your one must you activate your brain more than if you typed out your three in one on your phone which will further increase the odds that your brain will work on your three in one while you sleep but the question now is how do you select the three most important things you need to do tomorrow and the one most important task you must get done sell good barto say you should think like an orange farmer an orange farmer has two categories of tasks to consider each day short-term revenue collecting and long-term revenue cultivating that is picking the fruit from the trees and taking care of the trees or planting new trees that produce more fruit in the future with this orange farmer analogy in mind ask yourself two questions when deciding on your three in one first what can i do tomorrow to yield the best short-term results can you do something to improve your chances of winning an upcoming competition or scoring well on an upcoming exam or increasing the number of sales you could generate on an upcoming product release question number two what can i do tomorrow to give myself the most future opportunities is there a skill you could practice and refine tomorrow that will allow you to stand out in your field and unlock new opportunities in the next few years do you have a new product idea you could prototype tomorrow and sell later next year is there work you could start outsourcing tomorrow and free up more time over the next year to focus on revenue generating projects once you've written down your three most important tasks for tomorrow identify which of the three you must get done and then put an estimated completion time next to all three tasks now that you've intelligently prioritized tomorrow you need not worry about future results you just need to wake up tomorrow and direct all your energy and attention to your three in one your three most important and your one must completing your three in one is the ideal game plan but your day will rarely go according to plan as mike tyson famously said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth expect the unexpected tomorrow expect to wake up with less energy than you thought you'd have expect to get twice as many emails as you thought you would expect the tasks you scheduled for yourself to take twice as long as you thought they would and expect for emergencies and unexpected problems to pull you away from your three-in-one and into a state of chaos your day deviates from your plan regain control and rebuild momentum by conducting two drills the 100 second time on and the ask and chop in most sports coaches call a timeout when their team loses momentum the timeout serves as an opportunity to regroup and regain momentum before the game clock runs out when you lose momentum on your three in one call a 100 second timeout on yourself and perform the following mental exercise first perform a 15 second centering breath six seconds in hold for two seconds exhale for seven seconds then emphatically repeat your identity statement this can be simply three strengths you want to be known for for example i am driven i am relentless i am seriously focused then tell yourself three done wells these are three tiny things you've done well in the last 24 hours now tell yourself three will do wells three tasks or behaviors you want to execute with ease in the next 24 hours now repeat your identity statement and finish with another 15 seconds centering breath six seconds in hold for two exhale for seven after your 100 second timeout ask and chop ask yourself what is the most important thing i can get done next and then imagine chopping off an easy first action when you ask yourself a question you refocus your mind and when you visualize a butcher's knife coming down and cutting off a small piece of an important task you can easily do you kickstart yourself back into action and regain momentum on your three-in-one when coach wooden was 13 his dad gave him a card with a list of principals on the front and the words make each day your masterpiece on the back wooden carried that card in his pocket every day until he died in 2010 i implore you to make each day your masterpiece by determining your three most important and one must task for tomorrow before you eat lunch today and then doing your best to execute your three in one the moment you get out of bed when you get pulled away or lose momentum take a 100 second timeout then ask what's the most important thing i can get done next and chop off a tiny piece you can start to chew on stick to this daily process and you need not worry about succeeding because success will find you eventually that was the core message that i gathered from organized tomorrow today by jason selk and tom bartow i love how this book merges sports psychology with business and productivity i highly recommend it if you would like a one-page pdf summary of insights that i gathered from this book just click the link below and i'll be happy to email it to you if you already subscribed to the free productivity game email newsletter this pdf is sitting in your inbox if you like this video please share it and as always thanks for watching and have yourself a productive week

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Length: 8min 40sec (520 seconds)

Published: Mon May 02 2022