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When it comes to personal productivity, we all have the chance to have good days or bad days.<\/p>\n

Good days are those that leave you feeling good because you have accomplished your most important tasks. Bad days are those that leave you feeling bad because you have failed to do anything to advance your most important goals.<\/p>\n

If you want to have a better life, you must fill it with good days. The best way to do that is to organize your day according to your personal priorities \u2013 doing the most important things first.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to do. Yet most people don\u2019t. Eighty percent of the people I know \u2013 and I\u2019m including all the intelligent and hardworking people I work with \u2013 do exactly the opposite. They organize their days around urgencies and emergencies. Taking care of last-minute issues that should have been dealt with earlier. Or doing tasks that help other people achieve their goals while ignoring their own.<\/p>\n

Doing first things first. It is a very simple discipline. Yet its transformative power is immense. It can change your life \u2013 literally overnight.<\/p>\n

It changed my life. Several times, in fact.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve used this amazing technique to write six books, produce a record, and script and direct a feature-length film. I used it again last year to write 350 poems \u2013 one a day, after I began on January 15. And I am using it this year to get that book of poems published and to write six other books (five business books under the Michael Masterson pen name, and a novel with my personal byline).<\/p>\n

MaryEllen Tribby used this technique to write her first book on marketing, \u201cChanging the Channel,\u201d which John Wiley & Sons published in 2008.<\/p>\n

It is the single best technique I know for change. And it\u2019s the fastest and easiest way to turn your life around if you are not happy with the way it\u2019s been going so far.<\/p>\n

Doing first things first. Is that what you do?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I do:<\/p>\n