Not Today chronicles Erica and Mike Schultz’s journey as they manage their business and family while caring for their son Ari. They develop a nine-step productivity system to achieve goals and find purpose.
Main Lessons
- Time is a scarce commodity; develop a system to manage it effectively.
- Classify activities into treasure, investment, mandatory, and empty times.
- Purpose-driven tasks enhance productivity and happiness.
- Recruit your drive by setting personal goals and creating action plans.
- Beat procrastination by focusing on high-impact activities first.
- Re-engineer habits by inserting thought into trigger-response-reward loops.
- Keep a time log to optimize how you spend your hours.
- Learn to say no to requests that don’t align with your priorities.
- Avoid distractions by turning off alerts and creating focused workspaces.
- Reach the ‘zone’ by sprinting intensely on tasks for optimal focus.
- Fuel your energy with a mind-body-spirit balance to maintain momentum.
- Realign when off-track using micro changes and commitment contracts.
