 What do we do at the beginning of a work segment? We sit down to work and what happens? Now, besides doing an energy reboot, which I always recommend, look up energy reboot on Google, if you don't know what that is, find my video on that. Besides that, what else do we do? How do we prioritize, et cetera? And I have come up with this simple framework that I'm gonna share with you. Actually, this is the first time I'm sharing it and see if it relevant resonates with you and feel free to customize it or any other questions or ideas you can comment below. So I'll bring it up on screen here. It spells plan. So at the beginning of a work segment, whether it's an hour, half an hour, or two hours or whatever, I prioritize what I'm working on in this hour. And you might say, well, how the heck do you prioritize? Well, I have another acronym for you after this. But first we prioritize, okay? Like, okay, this is what I'm gonna be doing during this hour, during this half hour, whatever, however long the work segment is. And second thing is length per task. So let's say you're sitting down to work for an hour and you say, okay, I'm prioritized now with doing these three tasks in this hour. Well, then the question is, do you have a sense of how long each task is going to take or how long you will give each task? I have another video, which I will link below this one. Remind me if I don't, about my guidance on how do you know how long to spend on a task, okay? So that's another video, but you quickly write down. So for example, let's say in this hour, let's say this hour I'm going to be doing three tasks, task A, task B, task C. Now let's do how many minutes? Let's say I'm gonna spend 15 minutes on task A, I'm gonna spend 30 minutes on task B and I'll spend 15 minutes on task C, something like that. So length per task, this way, you can be more conscious to say, okay, well, I'm starting my work segment now at four o'clock, it's now, you know, four o'five. And so I'm gonna spend 15 minutes on task A. So about four 20, I'm gonna start noticing or if you use timers, I use timers all the time during my work segments, I'll just start a timer for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, et cetera. So using timers is really useful when you have approximate length of time you wanna spend on a particular task. And then the next thing is to activate your hat manual or checklist slash workflow document, right? So a hat manual represents, you know, in your work you wear multiple hats, right? For me, I wear a content creator hat. And then if I'm doing my bookkeeping with my bookkeepers hat, if I'm preparing for clients my client prep hat, we wear multiple hats in our work. And do you have a checklist or a workflow document, a process that is clear to you what to do with that task? I have a hat manual, hat manual doesn't have to be a thick volume, it could just simply be a simple Google document like this with three bullet points that can be a hat manual. But it's something you can quickly pull up to say, ah, this is what I'm doing when I do task A. Now, obviously it's the first time you've done task A then you have to start to write out a hat manual so that next time you do task A, you can easily without having to think so much, oh, how do I do this? So activate your hat manual. And then finally, the last thing to do during your work segment is chances are a lot of times you don't finish these tasks. You've a lot of some time. And of course, it's probably wise not to a lot. If you have an hour to work, you probably shouldn't a lot the full hour to this. So maybe give yourself like 10 minutes at the end, right? Let's say something like this, all right? The 10 minutes at the end should be to plan, right? To plan for the next opportunity when you are working on the things that you didn't finish because the trap is to say, let me just keep going until I finish. This is the road to burnout. This is the road to not taking care of your health. The road to fixation and to rabbit holes and just lack of self-care, lack of conscious living and joyful productivity, right? The road to joyful productivity is to boundary yourself. The most important person to create boundaries with is not other people, it's with yourself. And so that's why it's like at the end of your work hour you should say, well, when is my next opportunity? Because I feel like I want to work more on task A, for example. Maybe I did pretty good on task B or C or maybe I had to plan time for all three of these things. But it's like, when is my next opportunity to work on whatever I didn't finish? Because if you give yourself that opportunity to plan forward, then you can rest assured literally that you don't have to keep going until you're done, because that just eats into your next planned hour. And this is how you can't follow your calendar. This is why you toss your calendar out the window because you haven't learned how to create healthy boundaries with yourself, which is what we're trying to do right now with this. So this spells out plan and you can give it a try and let me know if this helps. Now the natural question is, George, how the heck do we prioritize? Now I've got another acronym for you. Dive. Dive, D-I-B-E. Let me put this on a separate page so we can look at this together. How do you prioritize all the things that you want to do? Let's say you sit down. Generally, if you follow my content and follow my Joyful Productivity, particularly we take my Joyful Productivity course, we talk about CCC, Capture, Categorize Calendar. Ideally, in each time segment, you've already defined what the category is, but whatever, I'm not going to assume that you've taken the course. I'm just going to say, well, how do you prioritize when you sit down to work, okay? This is how I recommend doing it. The first question is, are there any deliverables that's feeling like you have to work on this because it's a deliverable of something you're delivering to somebody else? For example, doing your taxes, is it deliverable to the government? Working on your client, preparing your client meeting is essentially a deliverable for your client because you're going to meet with them, you need to prepare, for example. Or yeah, so generally it's like you're delivering usually to a client or to the government or to a business partner or to a coworker or some other organization or whatever. So is there a deliverable you need to work on that has a due date that's coming up that you need to basically work on as soon as possible? That is obviously should be prioritized above other things because there's expectation of you, maybe a penalty if you don't do it, okay? The next question though is, if you do have a deliverable, okay? Or let's say you have a deliverable then you need to look at the increments of that project, meaning, okay, let's say we're doing taxes, okay? I have a deliverable to the government, finish my taxes, okay, fine. Then what are the increments of this project? So for example, before I deliver the taxes I basically have to deliver some documents to my accountant, right? So therefore my deliverable really, the increment before delivering to the government that's the final increment. The increment before that is to really, before that is my accountant sends the report back to me and the filing back to me and I have to look at the filing to make sure it's okay. I'm kind of incrementing back from the end goal of the final delivery, what do I need to do before them, before them, before them, before them, before then and then maybe my current increment, my current thing that I'm doing right now is put together a document for accountant and maybe there's even a smaller increment and maybe the smaller increment is to confirm that I have categorized my transactions for the past year, do you see what I mean? So that's why the increments are important because right now when you're sitting down to work if you think, if you think in your mind, oh, do taxes, you're gonna be overwhelmed, you're gonna go eat some ice cream and forget about taxes, right? That's impossible. Do taxes, what the hell does that mean? No, no, no, do taxes is a bunch of little tasks. That's what I mean by increments. It's a bunch of little tasks that when you finally write that out and go, oh, my current task is to categorize my transactions from the past year and that might even be too large of an increment. Maybe right now, what's calming to you, what's doable to you is to categorize transactions from the past month. Maybe you're backlogged for the whole year, but you can only just do one month or you could just do one week, right? That's a very doable increment for you right now. So that's what we're gonna work on for this hour, for example, right? So increment. Now, if you already have the deliverables and the increments of those deliverables, if you already have those scheduled, you're like, oh, George, I'm not, right now I'm sitting down to work and I don't need to work on deliverables or the increments of them right now, fine. Then the next thing, the next question I have for you is what is the vision you have for your life and your work, right? What projects or tasks, therefore are aligned the most to your vision for your life slash work that you can work on right now. Because let's say right now, you've already got the tax time all scheduled for the future and you've got the client preparation time all scheduled for the future, you're sitting down, you prioritize, you have so many things you wanna do. Well, what's the vision for your life and work, right? And maybe what's the vision for a specific area of your life or work that you wanna play with right now? And therefore, what is the most aligned task or project that helps you fulfill your vision? And if you still need some more help to prioritize, it's a George, I have a vision and you ask me this question, I have like 25 tasks that are aligned to my vision for my life slash work then let me help you out further. The last letter is, well, what energizes you the most? Out of these 25 tasks that are aligned with your vision, what is the prioritize those 25 tasks into what energizes you the most? What are you most excited by, most motivated to do right now? So you can see, this is a very simple but very realistic way to prioritize your work. And then once you prioritize, you can then continue on with, well, okay, I've prioritized and I figured out this is the one thing that those energizes me fine. Then what is the break that down and what is the length for each part of that project or task and let's say I'm gonna spend five minutes on this, 15 minutes on that, 25 minutes on that, et cetera. And then do you have a hat manual, especially if it's something that you're gonna be doing ongoingly, like you're gonna be doing a particular project again and again, and you would like to have a bit of a hat manual for the next time you do it, there you go. And then like I said, leave some time at the end of your hour or end of your 25 minute work period to say, well, when is the next time I'm working on this so that I don't feel like I have to keep going until I collapse, right? So I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you go ahead and implement this or if you have any questions. And yeah, I look forward to hearing your feedback about this.