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Short pieces on how to record, review and get started.

• Write it down first, judge later

  Keep recording and judging apart. Jot down what happened in one line now, and look back a few days later.

• A fifteen-minute weekly review

  At the end of the week, take a short while to read your notes, check your goals and pick one or two things for next week.

• How to write a goal you can act on

  Five questions to check whether a goal is actionable, and how to tell what belongs in a goal and what belongs in a repeating task.

• Shrink "someday" to ten minutes

  Cannot seem to start something you want to keep doing? Shrink it to a size you can finish in ten minutes and make it a habit you tap once a day.

• Leave one line for tomorrow

  Before you call it a day, take a minute or two to write down the first thing you will do tomorrow, so the morning does not start from scratch.

• Once a month: what came in, went out, was left

  When a month is over, take a little time to look at three numbers, what came in, what went out and what was left, and then see where most of the money went.