CONTENTS
Why it’s time to focus on projects rather than ideas |
The link between your best work and thriving |
How living in a project world gives us freedom at the cost of uncertainty |
What to do if your interests are all over the place |
Why projects are bridges and mirrors |
What separates the change makers from the sideliners
What’s really in the middle of the air sandwich between your big picture and day-to-day reality |
Marc and Angel Chernoff: What Else Could This Mean? |
The 5 keys to unlocking your best work |
The difference between positive and negative boundaries |
How we confuse courage and clarity |
Discipline creates freedom |
James Clear: The Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs |
Getting clear about your competing priorities helps you make better plans and commitments |
Ishita Gupta: Build Your Courage Muscle
Why thrashing is a sign that something matters to you |
How not doing your best work leads to creative constipation |
We’re built to slay dragons |
The 3 gifts of failure |
Chelsea Dinsmore: What to Do When Life Changes Your Plans |
How not being able to do everything at once is a gift once you accept it |
Why you have to let go of some ideas to trade up to the best ones |
Susan Piver: Should Your Break Up with Your Idea? |
5 questions to help you sort through what matters most
How to convert an idea into a SMART goal |
The 3 levels of success and why you can’t do everything at the epic level |
No date, no finish |
The 4 kinds of people to put in your success pack |
Pamela Slim: The Principles of Enrolling a Guide |
The 5 steps to activate your success pack
You don’t find time and space for your best work—you make time and space for it |
What playing with building blocks taught us about bending time |
How to use the project pyramid to break down your big projects into smaller ones |
34 common project verbs that make planning easier |
Using the Five Projects Rule to prioritize and plan your work |
The 4 kinds of blocks that power your best work and life |
3 focus blocks per week avoids a thrash crash
The difference between a flat list and a road map |
Using your GATES to fuel your project |
Jonathan Fields: Your GATES Point to a Deeper Spark |
5 categories to consider for every project budget |
Jacquette M. Timmons: Your Money Needs You to Give It Direction |
Deadlines guide your project; capacity drives your project |
The 7 steps to building your project road map
Why every plan has drag points |
The 3 kinds of no-win scenarios we often don’t realize we’re telling ourselves |
Jeff Goins: The Myth of the Starving Artist |
Why we choose mediocrity and what it really costs us |
Seth Godin: Only the Tall Poppy Gets Full Sunlight |
Don’t be down with OPP (other people’s priorities) |
9 ways to handle derailers and naysayers |
Jeffrey Davis: Let Wonder Intervene with Derailers |
6 questions to ask during your project premortem
How momentum planning keeps you going |
The 7 environmental factors to make work for you |
Joshua Becker: How a Minimalist Workspace Enhances Focus |
Why batching and stacking makes you more efficient |
The relationship between frogs and your dread-to-work ratio |
When you’re working can be more critical than what you’re working on |
Mike Vardy: You Don’t Have to Be an Early Riser to Be Productive |
Rethinking “first things first” |
The 5/10/15 Split makes daily momentum planning a breeze |
Why planning too far in advance can be much worse than a waste of time
3 ways to celebrate small wins—and why it’s important to do so |
Srinivas Rao: Don’t Break the Chain |
6 routines that will help minimize decision fatigue |
What Hansel and Gretel taught us about project management |
10 ways to mitigate distractions and interruptions |
Cascades, logjams, and tarpits—3 ways projects get stuck and how to handle them |
How to get your projects through the creative red zone
The underappreciated reasons why we should run victory laps |
Transition time and space between projects help us avoid burnout |
Todd Kashdan: Curating and Trimming Relationships |
The value of CAT time |
How after-action reviews make your next projects easier |
5 doors you may have unlocked by completing your project