What you accomplish in one month or one year, is directly related to the small, seemingly insignificant decisions you make every day. In the end all of your daily tasks are part the greater journey you are creating for yourself.

M. The Daily Mind Cleanse:

Find 5 or so minutes at the beginning or end of each day to jot down your “Intended Tasks for tomorrow” that need to attending to during your next work day. Some tasks will pop into our awareness which may need to be placed on an “Intended Tasks for the next week” page/section.

This daily Mind Cleanse allows you to empty your mind of nagging to-do thoughts, freeing you up for sleep (if it is an evening Mind Cleanse) or an experience of starting with a clean slate.

 

I. Intended Tasks:

Intended Tasks are predetermined. You have chosen to do them the night before, or the morning of your current workday.

Your Intended Tasks list the foundation on top of which you creatively build your day.

These are the nuts-and-bolt items like
“call Bronwyn,”
“write new blog post,”
“Jasmine: brunch next week,” etc.
Calls, scheduling, writings, online tasks…

- and – also the creative items like
“brainstorm names for workshop.”

• Intended Tasks should be doable within a day, or so (“write a book” is a project, which an be chunked-down into daily Intended Tasks)
• Hold this the items on this list gently; you may add/delete items throughout your days as needed. – As time goes on you will learn better what you can (and cannot) do within a day.

N. Navigation Tasks

Navigation Tasks are the unanticipated, un-calculated, unexpected tasks that are bound to come up.

Life is change.

When you must navigate through or around unanticipated tasks you have a choice to make.

There is no right or wrong; Know however that when you choose (hopefully consciously) to engage in a new unforeseen task which is not Intended – you are deciding that this is more important than the tasks you have Intended to do – sometimes this choice will be appropriate, and sometimes it will accommodate distraction – an unconscious way for you keep yourself from having what you desire long-term.

 

You must ask yourself…

…if I choose to engage this unforeseen task

• Where will this unforeseen Navigation Task need to be handled? (phone, alone, computer, in person?)

• How much time will it take?

• When will I have the energy to engage with this as fully as I’d like? (right now, morning, weekday, evening?)

• What is my priority today? (Is the unforeseen task more important than the Intended Tasks it may affect? Are my Intended Tasks more important than this new unforeseen task?)

D. Self-Defined Destiny

Technically this would be a first step. I put it at the end however because your Self-Defined Destiny is really what it all comes down to and what you always come back to; in the end all of your daily tasks, intended or not are part this greater journey you create for yourself. You can see at this point how important goals are.

Having a plan, goals, visioning, etc. gives you the experience of a Self-Defined Destiny. When you are clear about what you are creating towards you future – and – clear about your desires moving forward, then each decision and priority you make works in you favor towards your Self-Defined Destiny.

You take your business “by the horns.”

Journal your “one page business plan.” If you are more visual, create a Vision Board.

• Know what you are creating in your 6mo. – 1year future.

• Make daily decisions which support your long-term desires

I began with the daily Mind Cleanse. I ended with goals and Self-Defined Destiny. In between both of those are the seemingly insignificant decisions you make every day.

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – unknown