I've tried a lot of productivity tricks and the one I find most effective is to create a mantra. First off I have a todo list and every morning and night it tells me to say my mantra. Secondly I focus on only one thing or habit at a time - everything else which may be important still needs to wait its turn. I then just say whatever my goal is 10 times twice a day and after a week it starts to become difficult to stray from my goal. It usually takes a month or two and then I can start working on my next goal while remembering to maintain my previous ones. Make sure your goals are as concrete as possible - someone else should be able to read them without much context and understand exactly what to do.
Yeah, good points you make here. I have somehow arrived to the same conclusion. I'm actually working on this little app https://everydaycheck.com . It helps to work on your goals every day, but there are some goals that don't seem to fit in. I still feel like I'd be also good to have a list of the main goals clearly defined for me to read every morning and with some extra context to remind me of why I want to accomplish them
I just found everydayCheck yesterday. It will fit a lot of the daily goals I have. For goals that aren't daily I use a site like 43things.com, which is in desperate need of an alternative, by the way. I tend to look at my 43T goals every couple days. Something like everydayCheck will definitely help me though!
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