The Journal Writing Superpower Secret by Michael Forest

Author:Michael Forest [Forest, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: weight loss, journaling, journal writing, creativity, productivity
Publisher: thehabit.space
Published: 2017-06-14T07:00:00+00:00

Your ONE “Most Important Task” (1MIT)

In Gary Keller and Jay Papasan’s The ONE Thing (2013), the authors mention an interesting effect about dominoes and the force created by knocking a domino ever.

As it turns out, if you take a normal domino and tip if over, it actually generates enough force to knock over a domino that’s 50% larger than the first one.

In other words, if you start with a normal-sized domino that’s two inches tall, because of the power of compounding, the 31st domino could actually be 3000 feet taller than Mount Everest, and the buildup of energy that starts with that tiny two-inch domino would be enough to knock it down. By the time you got to the 57th domino, the domino that gets tipped over could be almost as tall as the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Your ONE Most Important Task, or 1MIT, should be a search for that starter domino, the key leverage point, that will make the other things easy. If you accomplish it, it will lead you to bigger and better things.

On the macro level, my starter domino is actually my morning ritual itself, which is when I do my journaling and decide from there on my 1MIT. It starts with journaling, then I move on to my most important task of the day, which is usually writing. If I get that done, managing the rest of the day is easy. Trying to work that stuff in with the rest of the day is much harder, and kind of a pain, frankly.

The first domino for me is the journaling because that’s where I decide what the other ONE thing is that day. Usually it’s writing, which I do immediately afterwards, because that’s when my brain is at its best.

But you could do the same thing the evening before, or even, if you work 9-5 but want to get work done on personal projects in the evening, right after work.

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