Review your mid-term and long-term perspective

Having solid mid-term and long-term perspective is helpful so you don't have to rethink your strategy each day. But don't get caught in the trap of overthinking your life's purpose at the expense of day-to-day work. This daily planning discipline is not only how work is achieved, it's also the feedback mechanism to best guide your higher-level goals.

Write down what's most important

Without yet consulting your todo list, use your intuition to write out the most important things you could accomplish tomorrow.

Write however many items you like but in the end, star the top 3 that you think will have a long-term impact. Everything without a star, is your "avoid-at-all-costs list," at least until you finish what's first.

Most of our life's biggest moments come from two sources: compounding systems or long-tail events. So, think of ways you can either (a) build off what's working or (b) attempt a bold experiments. Avoid the in-between. What on your list brings you to life?

Consult your todo and project lists

Your todo list is simply a box of suggested puzzle pieces. Your life is the puzzle itself. It's great at reminding you of important ideas and tasks. But if we put it first, we spend all our effort focusing on the puzzle box and not the puzzle!

Scan your todo and project lists for anything that might improve upon your intuitive list. (At this point don't touch or organize your system, no matter how scattered it may be.) Rewrite your tomorrow list as you see fit.

Organize your todo system (15m max)

Having an organized todo system is helpful in the same way it's nice to have a box of puzzle pieces be sorted and laid flat. But keep in mind the puzzle box is far less important than the puzzle.

Set a timer for 15m and do whatever you can in that time to organize your todo list. It'll never be perfectly organized.

Batch things together and delete what's not relevant. Pretend the system is on fire, and you only have 15m to save the essential. When lists become too long, demote them into notes and set a reminder to review the note.

The more ruthlessly you say "no," the more space you'll open up in your life for bigger things.

Commit

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back... That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.... Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.