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this is called “time blocking” or “time boxing.” If you truly value being
healthy and have decided that a 30-minute daily workout is your enabling goal,
then don’t put it on your to-do list—put it on your calendar. Schedule it as a
recurring appointment. If you value customer intimacy as a business strategy and
have an enabling goal of talking to at least two customers a day, then schedule a
daily appointment for “customer calls.”
In Their Own Words…
During training, I balanced family time, chores, schoolwork, Olympic training, appearances, and other
obligations by outlining a very specific schedule. I was forced to prioritize…To this day, I keep a
schedule that is almost minute by minute. Focus on those things that bring you further to your goal each
and every day. Every moment counts!
–Shannon Miller,
a member of the 1992 and 1996 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team who won a combined

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seven Olympic medals.
Second, important items should be scheduled as early in the day as
possible. No matter how much we try to control our time and calendars, we all
have things that “come up” that might need our attention. It could be a meeting
request from our boss, an angry client call, or the school nurse calling to say we
need to pick up Johnnie from school. Naturally, as more time ticks away in each
day, the more likely it is that something unexpected will happen.
I personally struggle with this immensely. If I have my daily workout
scheduled for the late afternoon or night, the odds are high that I’ll feel some
other priority is in need of extra attention by the time I actually get to my
exercise time block. I basically know that if I don’t hit the treadmill in the
morning, the odds of hitting it at all go way down.