Practice Law 5: Daily Planning Leverages Time Through Increased Focus
May 20, 2024
Practice Law 5: Daily Planning Leverages Time Through Increased Focus
In our fast-paced lives, finding time for formal planning may seem like a luxury. However, as we delve into Law 5 from Hyrum W. Smith’s book The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management, we discover that investing a few minutes in daily planning can yield significant returns in terms of increased focus and productivity.
Despite the clear benefits of planning, many individuals find themselves making excuses to avoid it. From claiming a lack of time to feeling tied down by a long list of tasks, these excuses often prevent individuals from realizing the power of effective planning.
To overcome these barriers, we recommend integrating daily planning into your routine—dedicating ten to fifteen minutes every morning to planning your day, allowing you to identify priorities, anticipate obstacles, and set specific goals for tasks.
One key aspect of effective planning is the creation of a Prioritized Daily Task List. This involves assigning a value to each task based on its importance, ensuring that vital tasks are completed first. By prioritizing tasks, we focus our energy on activities aligned with our goals and values, increasing our efficiency and satisfaction.
The Franklin Planner as an important tool to support your planning efforts. These tools provide a unified platform to store and organize daily task lists, ensuring that we remain focused on the activities that matter most.
Ultimately, effective planning not only helps us manage our time more efficiently but also keeps us aligned with our goals and values. By incorporating daily planning into our routines, we can leverage our time more effectively, leading to increased focus, productivity, and satisfaction in our personal and professional lives.
So, let’s commit to practicing Law 5 and embrace the power of daily planning to unlock our full potential and achieve greater success in all areas of life. Take our Planner Training Course to learn more about how our planning tools can support your journey to success.
Thank you for this timely and helpful reminder! I do feel more on top of the day’s tasks and activities when I have a daily game plan plotted out in the morning (or even planned the night before, if I can manage it.😉)
I do this everyday, I can attest to he advantages of daily planning. As we get tired, the day kicks us around, it’s good to come back to list to re-focus and keep going with what is important.
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