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https://www.fastcompany.com/90742937/how-to-use-daily-quadrants-to-get-more-done-each-day?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en By Stephanie Vozza Creating a to-do list can be a useful tool for organizing your day by defining what you need to accomplish. However, when you do those tasks is critical, because it can impact how well you complete them, says Donna McGeorge, author of The 1 Day Refund: Take Back Time, Spend it Wisely . “Pay attention to the clock in your body, not just the one on the wall,” she says. “Human beings have circadian rhythms. We were designed for mental alertness in the morning and physical dexterity in the afternoon. That’s just how the body clock works.” Instead of randomly tackling to-dos, McGeorge breaks up the day into four quadrants, each lasting about two hours. And each quadrant can be an ideal time to tackling different types of work. The first quadrant The first two hours of the day are for high intensity, high-impact work. These tasks are the most...

There are multiple ambitions that we have in a day . We are either scared of noting down the tasks or are too ambitious and fill up the day with multiple tasks and make it nearly impossible to complete the list during the day .  The day is then left incomplete and we feel frustrated at the end of the day as there is a long list of pending tasks . One of the most effective ways of combating such a situation is to not do more than 6 tasks in a day and reviewing the checklist to identify the most important so that we get close to achieving the same and feel satisfied and confident . 

Here are the seven steps in the 1,000 percent formula:   Step 1: Arise Two Hours Before Your First Appointment, or before you have to be at work. Invest the first hour in yourself by reading something educational, motivational, or spiritual. As Henry Ward Beecher once said, “The first hour is the rudder of the day.” When you get up and invest the first hour in yourself, you set yourself up mentally to have an excellent day. You will be more positive, alert, creative, and productive all day long when you start your day by investing the first hour in yourself. If you read in your field one hour per day, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week will translate into about fifty books per year. Since the average adult reads less than one nonfiction book per year, if you were to read fifty books in your field each year, do you think that would give you an edge in your profession? Do you think that it would move you ahead of virtually everyone else in your b...