The Sacred Six - J.B. Glossinger - Part 3

The Sacred Six - J.B. Glossinger

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 49

 February 18, 2017 

Book 15 - The Sacred Six: The Simple
Step-by-Step Process for Focusing Your Attention
and Recovering your Dreams
by J.B. Glossinger (2016)
 Part 3 - Pages 91-130
Reading Time - 40 minutes

This is where it gets a bit complicated. We move on to the Sacred Six Goal Projects. Sooo... out of the dozens or 100s of goals we have in life, we need to identify the ones that are aligned with our mission. Out of those, choose 5 to 10 that are our top projects. Excellent.

Now... for each of those goals, we list the projects for each. For example, one of my goals is to Write a Book. That goal can be divided up into a variety of projects:

• Write book
• Edit book
• Find a publisher
• Get Feedback
• Marketing plan
• etc.

So... we do that for our 5-10 Goals that we identified, which could give us a list of 50 or 60 projects. Now the tricky part, prioritize all those projects and identify the top Sacred Six projects that you want to focus on. I might, for example, choose Write Book as one of my Sacred Six projects. Once that project is complete, I might move on to Edit Book or something else.

Within each project, we then need to identify individual tasks that will move that project to completion. So, for Write Book, I might make one of my Sacred Daily Tasks to be "write for 60 minutes a day". I keep doing that every day, until the Project called Write Book is done. Now... life does get in the way, and the author acknowledges that working on all Sacred Six Projects every day with daily tasks might not be feasible. Even if we just work on two Sacred Tasks every day, that is a step in the right direction.

One of the key messages in this section is that Productivity is NOT about time management... it is about focus management. If we could simply focus exclusively on a few of our Sacred Tasks each day, we could make amazing things happen. He recommends a style in which we work on a Sacred Task for 50 minutes and then take a 10 minute break to handle distractions, and then move on to another Sacred Task.
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