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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to have both a clear vision of your big goals

and of the doable steps you'll take today to work toward them.

Your goals go on a billboard you can't miss.

The daily steps should be doable to fit on a matchbox cover.

Today's tip was inspired by my before-breakfast interview with Daniel Coyle, author of

Flourish and The Talent Code.

In describing his daily routine, Dan said that in the morning, he writes notes on a 3x

card about, as he puts it, what the day might contain. He pointed out that there is not

much space on an index card. You are not going to put 50 things on there, unless you write really small. So he has to focus

and prioritize. He says, if I can write today on a matchbox, what matters? This is such a good

question. In the tiniest of spaces, only the highest priorities make the cut.

When we have limited priorities, we tend to do them.

So we move forward.

Dan said that the priorities that go on his index card are drawn from the various projects and task

streams he's working on. This got me thinking about how intentional living requires a clear

vision of both the big goals you're working toward and the steps you'll take today to move toward

those goals. Your daily efforts are focused so precisely that you can record them

on a small matchbox or index card. Your big goals, on the other hand, could go on a billboard.

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