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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Write it up before you leave. One salesman, knowing full well he will not remember the visit an hour later, does his notes in the car with the engine still off.
The strength of it is that the trigger is fixed and physical. Sitting down in the car is the cue, and the notes happen before the key turns. No…
You get three goes at thinking about something: before it starts, somewhere in the middle, and once it is over. Most of us only ever use the last one, which is the least useful of them.
Before is a pause to look at the options. In the middle is a quick check on how it is actually going and whether anything needs changing. Afterwards…
The first version of the list will be alright. It becomes good over a couple of years, one forgotten item at a time.
So when you arrive somewhere without the thing you needed, add a line rather than carrying the annoyance around with you. That turns a bad morning…
A long project gives you no feedback until it is too late to use any. Put checkpoints in yourself: with the people involved, or just with you and a Monday morning.
Pick the dates while you are writing the plan, not later when you happen to remember. Each one turns a single verdict at the end into several small…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.