What does a day well spent look like?
1) Working really hard on a problem that really matters to you, your company and to the world, at the cost of many other lesser important problems that are vying for your attention.
2) Making progress in that problem by moving ideas, execution and the team ahead.
3) Learning something in the process of the two steps above.
For these three things to happen, a) plan your day, with the first hours of the day allocated solely for the top priority problem (no phone browsing during this time), b) stick to your plan and don’t get distracted, c) reward yourself for sticking to the plan, 4) close out with gratitude for the day gone past and the plan for day that is yet to come.
Easier said than done, but that’s what separates the doers from the dreamers.