Rituals can play an important part in getting things done.

I have some rituals that I practice regularly. Meditation at a certain time every morning is one of them. Reciting my vision every morning and every evening is another one. Recently, I have begun the day with blogging in the morning.

There are some rituals like client follow-up, reading, voluntary work, spending time on my finances, that are ones that I do on a regular basis, but not at a specific time.

Email has become second nature to most of us.  This can be a great tool or a real time killer!  I have found the following system to help me manage my email time.

I strive to open my Email account three times a day as follows:

First Time

Before I open the email, I have decided three to five emails I need to send out and one or two email replies I am expecting.  I make sure that I complete these tasks before I look at anything else!  How do I do that?

There are a lot of things to do today -- as they are almost every day and every week and every year.

Everything will not get done.  Even if you tick everything on your list there will be others that will find themselves conveniently parked on your ever growing list.

So what is the solution? Three things:

In a school in China students throw eggs at the school uniform to wreck the uniform on graduation day. The action symbolizes a break from the past and a start of a new journey.

How about creating a ritual today where you break from the past - the past in your case can be a scarcity, mentality habit or lack of discipline.