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    Wooden led the UCLA basketball team to unprecedented success through concentrating on hard work and planning. He knew that focusing on the process of maximizing effort in practice would lead to wins. Authors Selk and Bartow advise identifying the three most important tasks and one most critical task for the next day before lunch to allow overnight brainstorming. This "3 & 1" method activates the brain to work on priorities during rest. It is best to consider both short-term and long-term impact when selecting tasks by thinking like an orange farmer tending to immediate harvest and continued growth.

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    Wooden led the UCLA basketball team to unprecedented success through concentrating on hard work and planning. He knew that focusing on the process of maximizing effort in practice would lead to wins. Authors Selk and Bartow advise identifying the three most important tasks and one most critical task for the next day before lunch to allow overnight brainstorming. This "3 & 1" method activates the brain to work on priorities during rest. It is best to consider both short-term and long-term impact when selecting tasks by thinking like an orange farmer tending to immediate harvest and continued growth.

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    Wooden led the UCLA basketball team to unprecedented success through concentrating on hard work and planning. He knew that focusing on the process of maximizing effort in practice would lead to wins. Authors Selk and Bartow advise identifying the three most important tasks and one most critical task for the next day before lunch to allow overnight brainstorming. This "3 & 1" method activates the brain to work on priorities during rest. It is best to consider both short-term and long-term impact when selecting tasks by thinking like an orange farmer tending to immediate harvest and continued growth.

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    Wooden led the UCLA basketball team to unprecedented success through concentrating on hard work and planning. He knew that focusing on the process of maximizing effort in practice would lead to wins. Authors Selk and Bartow advise identifying the three most important tasks and one most critical task for the next day before lunch to allow overnight brainstorming. This "3 & 1" method activates the brain to work on priorities during rest. It is best to consider both short-term and long-term impact when selecting tasks by thinking like an orange farmer tending to immediate harvest and continued growth.

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    from Organize Tomorrow Today by Jason Selk & Tom Bartow 

    John Wooden, arguably the greatest coach of all time, led the UCLA basketball team to 88 straight wins and seven straight national 
    championships. When asked how he did it, he said, "If you want to extend a winning streak, forget about it. If you want to break a losing 
    streak, forget about it. Forget about everything except concentrating on hard work and intelligent planning.” 

    Wooden knew if he intelligently planned each practice and if his players gave their best effort (which he measured by how intensely they 
    ran to open areas on the court), the wins would eventually come his way. As the hall of fame football coach Bill Walsh said, "If you do your 
    job, the score takes care of itself."  

    If you're in school, running a business, or working for a business, your job is to maximize your time each day. And you do that by 
    organizing tomorrow, today. 

    Organize tomorrow, today 
    Authors Selk and Bartow say, “Highly successful people rarely complete everything they want to do in a given 
    day, but they always get the most important things done each day.”  

    When you identify your most important tasks a day in advance, you allow your brain to simulate doing your 
    most important tasks and think of creative strategies to complete those tasks while you sleep. But if you wait 
    until the evening to prioritize, you may be too tired to make critical decisions.  

    The ideal time to prioritize tomorrow is today, just before eating lunch. Before you take your first bite of lunch, take five minutes to write 
    down the three most important things you need to do tomorrow and put a star beside the one most important thing you must get done. 
    By writing down your “3 & 1” on paper, you activate your brain more than if you type out your “3 & 1” on your phone – further increasing 
    the odds that your brain will work on your “3 & 1” while you sleep. 

    How do you select the three most important things you need to do tomorrow and the most important task you must get done?  

    Selk and Bartow say you should think like an orange farmer. An orange farmer considers two categories of tasks each day: short‐term 
    revenue collecting and long‐term revenue cultivating (i.e., picking the fruit and taking care of the fruit trees or planting new trees for 
    more fruit in the future). With this orange farmer analogy in mind, ask yourself two questions when choosing your “3 & 1”: 

    1. What can I do tomorrow to yield the best short‐term results?
     What can you do tomorrow to improve your chances of winning an upcoming competition? What can you do tomorrow 
    to increase the number of sales you could generate from your product?
    2. What can I do tomorrow to give myself the most future opportunities? 
     Is there a skill you could practice and refine tomorrow that will allow you to stand out in your field and unlock new 
    opportunities in the next few years? Do you have a new product idea you could prototype tomorrow and sell later next
    year? 

    Once you've written down your three most important tasks for tomorrow and put a star beside the one task you MUST get done, put an 
    estimated completion time next to all three tasks.  

    Now that you’ve intelligently planned tomorrow, you need not worry about future results – just wake up tomorrow and direct all your 
    energy and attention to your “3 & 1.”  

    When you get pulled away from your “3 & 1,” perform the following drills to refocus and rebuild momentum:  

    100‐second timeout 
     Perform a 15‐second centering breath (6 seconds in, hold for 2 seconds, exhale for 7 seconds).
     Emphatically repeat your identity statement – an affirmation of three strengths you want to be known for.
    Example: "I am driven. I am relentless. I am serenely focused." 
     Tell yourself three “done‐wells” – three tiny things you’ve done well in the past 24 hours.
     Tell yourself three “will‐do‐wells” – three behaviors you want to execute with ease in the next 24 hours.
     Repeat your identity statement.
     Finish with another 15‐second centering breath (6 seconds in, hold for 2 seconds, exhale for 7 seconds).

    Ask and chop 
    Ask yourself: “What is the most important thing I can get done next?” and then imagine “chopping off” an easy 
    first action. When you ask yourself a question, you refocus your mind. And when you visualize a butcher’s knife 
    cutting off a small piece of an important task you could easily do, you’re more likely to act. 

    “Make each day your masterpiece” – John Wooden 

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