Get Your Ducks in a Row: 20-Minute To-Do List and Calendar Kickstart

Start your day focused, clear, and ready for action. In just 20 minutes, we’ll tap into proven productivity principles to organize your priorities and prepare for purposeful work.

### What to Bring

• Your calendar
• Your action tracker, aka to-do list, task list or personal planner
• Your project plan(s) for one or more projects you choose to work on. You can also create one during the session. It can be a simple to-do list specific to one project, or a full Gantt or other type of chart
• Your daily notetaking journal(s) — e.g. communication log, ideas tracker, daily journal, etc. where you record your thoughts, ideas, meeting notes, interactions and other communications.
• A habit tracker or systems tracker — i.e. a document to plan, track and assess personal habits, including stacked habits and routines.

Optional

• Your temple of light — e.g. a vision board or inspirational collection of images, quotes, affirmations, intentions, or aspirational people.

### Agenda

5:25 AM Meeting Opens

5:30 – Meeting Begins

Fluff the Nest
Join the meeting, hydrate, tidy your physical and digital workspace, and gather your tools. Feel free to chat with fellow attendees.

Gather Your Flock
🔹 Review: Review your calendar, projects, notes and reminders. Freewrite to brain dump anything on your mind — e.g. inspiration, ideas, insights, questions, concerns and challenges.
🔹 Update: Adjust your calendar, action tracker, and project plan(s). Store your notes to easily find and act on them. Update your habit tracker if you haven't already.
🔹 Assess: Identify key priorities and determine what to eliminate, delegate, or defer.
🔹 Focus: Choose your focus for the day. It could be a topic or subject, project or task.

Take the Lead
We will close the main session with a big breath, a reminder of what motivates, inspires or centers us and a few seconds to reflect on our intention(s) for the day,

6:00 AM – Close
Begin the day with clarity.

### Bonus: Eat that Frog and Coworking

Feel free to stay later for a session of Brian Tracy's Eat that Frog to help guide you tackle your daily focus and/or for a pomodoro-inspired coworking session.

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